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CHANDLER, c". IIARLES FREDERICK (1836—) An American ehemist, born at Lancaster, Mass. Ile was educated at the Lawrence Scientific S•hotil of Harvard University, and at the uni versities of c;ittiimpen and Berlin. After being director of the chemieal department of Union College. schene•tady, N. Y. (1557). he Was ap professor of chemistry in the New York College of Pharmacy ( Is58). In 18114 he became professor of analytical and applied chemistry in the Sellout of Mines. Columbia University, and in 18711 he was appointed to the chair of istry and medical jurisprudence in the College of Physieians and Surgeons. In 1865 he be came IA11'1111-4 :111.1 in IS73 president. of the of Health of the Pity of New York. lie was trade presiilent of the American Chemical As sociation of the British Society of Chemistry in 1899. and of the Chemist Club in 1899. in as sociation with hi, brother, Prof. W. H. Chandler. of Lehigh I'Myersity, he, in 1870, established the monthly publication entitled The lau•icetit Chcraist . Ili. numerous papers. most

ef nhiell are published in the before-mentioned journal and in the annual reports of the Health Department of New include: kerort On rs for mud Ifnil. r Inrrastat lean : ch. mistry of (1as-Liab in!, I I g76) ; rous hr rosi or: Lael fire on ll•ater 1871): 1'holo-.11,rhuHie,t1 Proresses (1'190) : lecport on IMny.-r6ois lies (1570) : ileport on ret•o lcum as an Illuminator I ltiTti ; Report on the Waters of the Hudson 1572) ; of Organic Cite mist )71 I printed for the •lass of '65, Union College. Schenectady. 1864) ; .1/anAol of Qualitalice t pamphlet, 1873). Among the monerials reforms introduced during the administration of Professor Chandler are the segregation of slaughter-houses and the pas sage of the Tenement-House Act, which provide, that the plans of every tenement-house must first be submitted to the Board of Health.