al professor in the
_Long Island Medical College_, in the city of Brooklyn, which he
accepted, together with the post of visiting surgeon in the hospital
to which the college was attached. His work during this period was
extremely arduous, but was performed with the utmost ability and
credit.

"In 1872, he was invited to a professorship in the New York
University, and also to another (that of Surgical Anatomy) in Bellevue
Hospital Medical College in New York City. The former of these he
declined, but he accepted the latter and retained it until his death.

"In 1873, Dr. Crosby was invited by the Trustees of Jefferson Medical
College, Philadelphia, to accept the chair of Anatomy, on the
resignation of the distinguished Dr. Pancoast.

"This, though not accepted, may be reckoned the crowning honor in his
wreath of professional laurels."

For all the qualities which distinguish the model physician, surgeon,
teacher, and companion, few names, in all the annals of Medicine,
stand higher than that of Alpheus Benning Crosby.

Professor Crosby married at Baltimore, Md., Mildred Glassell, daughter
of Dr. Wm. R. Smith. He died at Hanover, August 9, 1877.

* * * * *

In closing this record the valuable services of Parsons, Delamater,
Bartlett, Holmes, Hubbard, Roby, Williams, Phelps, Field, How, and
Frost should not escape our notice.

CHAPTER XXVIII.

THE CHANDLER SCIENTIFIC DEPARTMENT.--THE AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT.--THE
THAYER DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING.

The following account of the Chandler Scientific Department of the
college is from the pen of Professor Ruggles and other authentic
sources.

The building formerly occupied by Moor's Charity School is now
occupied by this Department.

Extracts from Mr. Chandler's will give us an idea of the department of
instruction which he wished to establish.

"I give and devise the sum of fifty thousand dollars ... for the
establishment and support of a permanent department or school of
instruction in the college, in the practical and useful arts of life,
comprised chiefly in the branches of Mechanics and Civil Engineering,
the Invention and Manufacture of Machinery, Carpentry, Masonry,
Architecture and Drawing, the Investigation of the properties and uses
of the Materials employed in the Arts, the Modern Languages and
English Literature, together with Book-keeping, and such other
branches of knowledge as may best qualify young pe