HISTORY OF VERMONT. 389 



stage of society ; but most of all necessary, when 

 they are forming a new state. 



[1806.] In the year 1800 a college was al- 

 so established at Middlebury in this state, an 

 account of which was given in the political pro- 

 ceedings of that year. Both of these colleges 

 have now a president, tutor, and other instruc- 

 tors. They have also laid the foundations of a 

 library and philosophical apparatus. Several 

 young gentlemen have been already educated 

 at these colleges, and the number of students 

 have been increasing. The same books, course, 

 and method of instruction, have been adopted in 

 these seminaries, as are in use in the other New 

 England colleges. 



There are also three medical societies, es- 

 tablished by law, in the state. The members 

 consist of the most judicious and able practi- 

 tioners of the profession ; the business of their 

 meetings is to improve themselves, their profes- 

 sion, and the methods of medical education. 



The time however is not come, v/hen sci- 

 ence is to appear in her highest dignity and 

 glory. She is not yet seen in Vermont, pursu- 

 ing her inquiries by astronomical and philosoph- 

 ical observations, by physical experiments, chy- 

 mical processes, botanical collections, or ana- 

 tomical dissections. Serious attempts are not 

 yet made to introduce the substantial aids and 

 ornaments of an astronomical , observatory, a 

 chamber of experimental philosophy, a museum 

 of natural history, a botanic garden, or medi- 

 cal schools for anatomy, surgery, chemistry, or 

 the materia medica. With the increasing 

 uealtb, population, and improvement of the 



