Benjamin Silliman (1779-1864)

Fisher, George P., ed. Life of Benjamin Silliman: Chiefly from His Manuscript Reminis­cences, Diaries and Correspondence. 2 vols. New York: Scribner's, 1866. This set is mostly letters, especially volume II. Very little narrative; no analysis. Fair index.

Fulton, John F., and Thomson, Elizabeth H. Benjamin Silliman, 1779-1864: Pathfinder in American Science. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1969. "A commendably compact and simply written biography, without loss of perspective and with important new material." (Henry Guerlac, in New England Quarterly, June,1949,p.262)

Wilson, Leonard G., ed. Benjamin Silliman and His Circle: Studies on the Influence of Benjamin Silliman on Science in America. New York: Science History Publica­tions, 1979. Includes a biographical essay by Wilson and an intensive intellectual analysis of Silliman's thought by John C. Greene. Silliman was a seminal figure in the teaching of chemistry at Yale and founder and editor of American Journal of Science and the Arts.