The history of the Department of Chemistry at the University of British Columbia can be traced back to 1914 when President F.F. Wesbrook recruited Douglas McIntosh from McGill University to become the first professor of chemistry, one of the first appointees to the UBC faculty. Ebenezer H. Archibald became the second member of the department in 1915, and the following year, Robert H. Clark joined. McIntosh served as department head until 1920, when he left the University to accept a private position. Archibald assumed the position of department head until 1927. Then, he resigned because of illness and was succeeded by Robert Clark. The latter continued in this capacity for over twenty years before retiring in 1948. The late 1940s represented a trying period because resignation, retirement and death reduced the number of professors in the department to three. In 1949, Sperrin Chant (Dean of Arts and Science and head of the Dept. of Psychology) became acting head of the department until replaced later in the year by Gilbert Hooley. In 1964, the Department of Chemistry moved to the newly created Faculty of Science following the Faculty of Arts and Science split.