Excerpt from Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Amherst College: For the Academical Year 1850-51 Ebenezer s. Snell, A. M., Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, and Librarian. Charles U. Shepard, M. D., Massachusetts Professor of Chemistry and Natural History. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.