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chemistry, geology and paleontology, anatomy 

 and physiology, astronomy, natural philosophy, 

 and elocution and oratory. Instruction is also 

 given in civil, mining, and steam-engineering. 



The Divinity School of the Protestant Episco- 

 pal Church, in Thirty-ninth and Walnut Streets, 

 West Philadelphia, was established in 1862. In 

 1874-'75 it had 6 professors, 36 students, and a 

 library of 6,000 volumes. The Theological Sem- 

 inary of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, in 

 Franklin Street, was founded in 1864. In 1874- 

 '75 it had 6 professors and a library of 2,500 

 volumes. The whole number of graduates was 

 103. 



There are three medical colleges, besides 

 the medical department of the university, two 

 dental colleges, and a college of pharmacy. 

 These are the Jefferson Medical College, in 

 Tenth Street, between Chestnut and Walnut ; 

 the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadel- 

 phia, in Filbert near Eleventh Street, the old- 

 est homoeopathic college in the world ; the 

 Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, in 

 College Avenue near North Twenty-second 

 Street; the Pennsylvania College of Dental 

 Surgery, in Tenth and Arch Streets ; the Phil- 

 adelphia Dental College, in North Tenth 

 Street ; and the Philadelphia College of Phar- 

 macy, in Tenth Street near Race. The latest 

 statistics of these institutions appear in the fol- 

 lowing table : 



The Franklin Institute occupies a plain and 

 substantial building in Seventh Street near 

 Chestnut, containing a fine lecture-room; it 

 was incorporated in 1824, and is designed to 

 promote manufactures and the mechanic and 

 useful arts. It has a library, and maintains 

 courses of lectures on different branches of 

 science. The School of Design for Women, in 

 Penn Square, founded in 1848, affords gratui- 

 tous instruction. The American Philosophical 

 Society, in South Fifth Street, was incorporated 

 in 1780. It has a cabinet of coins and relics, 

 and a library containing 15,000 pamphlets, be- 

 sides bound volumes. The Academy of Natu- 

 ral Sciences, founded in 1812 and incorporated 

 in 1817, has a valuable library and very exten- 

 sive collections in zoology, ornithology, geology, 

 mineralogy, paleontology, conchology, ethnol- 

 ogy, archaeology, and botany. Gratuitous in- 

 struction is given in natural science. Admis- 

 sion is obtained to the collection upon payment 

 of a small fee. The building now occupied is 

 on the corner of Broad and Sansom Streets. 

 A new and extensive building of serpentine 

 stone, with trimmings of Ohio sandstone, in 

 the collegiate Gothic style, is in course of 



erection on the corner of Nineteenth and Race 

 Streets. The Academy of Fine Arts, in Broad 

 and Cherry Streets, was founded in 1805 and 

 incorporated in 1807 ; it has very valuable art 

 collections, and holds annual exhibitions. The 

 building has a front of 100 feet on Broad Street 

 and a depth of 258 feet on Cherry Street ; it 

 is of a modified Gothic style, and is profusely 

 ornamented. The Handel and Haydn Society, 

 in Arch Street, is chiefly devoted to music, but 

 possesses a library of standard works. The 

 Historical Society of Pennsylvania, in Spruce 

 Street, was incorporated in 1826 ; its library, 

 containing, besides bound volumes, 40,000 

 pamphlets and 20,000 folios of manuscripts, is 

 particularly rich in local and family histories. ' 

 The Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of 

 Philadelphia, in Walnut Street, has a library 

 and a collection of 6,700 coins, metals, etc., 

 chiefly ancient, and 300 antiques and medal- 

 lions ; it was incorporated in 1858. The Ameri- 

 can Baptist Historical Society, in Arch Street, 

 has a library containing, besides bound vol- 

 umes, 16,000 pamphlets and 453 manuscripts. 



The Athenaeum of Philadelphia occupies an 

 imposing building in Sixth and Adelphi Streets ; 

 it has a fine library, and a reading-room sup- 

 plied with the principal American and foreign 

 newspapers and periodicals. The Library Com- 

 pany of Philadelphia was formed in 1731 by 

 Benjamin Franklin and others ; its library, 

 commonly known as the Philadelphia Library, 

 is, next to the Mercantile, the largest in the 

 city ; the building, in South Fifth and Library 

 Streets, was erected in 1789. The Mercantile 

 Library, organized in 1821, belongs to share- 

 holders, and is accessible to others upon the 

 payment of annual dues ; its reading-room is 

 supplied with the principal American and for- 

 eign newspapers and periodicals ; the building, 

 in Tenth Street above Chestnut, has a frontage 

 of 74 feet and a depth of 184 feet, and is one 

 of the finest buildings for library purposes in 

 the country. Other libraries are the Appren- 

 tices' (free), established in 1821, in Arch Street ; 

 that of the Catholic Philopatrian Literary In- 

 stitute, in Locust Street ; the Dial Library, in 

 South Fifth Street ; that of the German So- 

 ciety of Pennsylvania, in South Seventh Street ; 

 of the Library Association of Friends, in Race 

 near Fifteenth Street ; of the Mechanics' Insti- 

 tute of Southwark, in South Fifth Street ; of 

 St. Philip's Literary Institute, in Queen Street ; 

 of the Law Association of Philadelphia, at 

 Sixth and Chestnut Streets ; of the Moyamen- 

 sing Literary Institute, at South Eleventh and 

 Catharine Streets ; of the Spring Garden Insti- 

 tute, at Broad and Spring Garden Streets ; and 

 the Southwark Library, in South Second Street. 

 The latest statistics of the libraries above men- 

 tioned are as follows : 



Libraries. No. of vols. 



Mercantile Library 112,000 



Library Company of Philadelphia 100,000 



Academy of Natural Sciences 26,000 



Apprentices 1 Library 20,000 



Athenajum of Philadelphia 20,000 



