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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



His book on Electro-Chemical Analysis has recently been trans- 

 lated into German by Dr. Max Ebeling, of the Technical School 

 of Berlin. 



For more than a century and a half Philadelphia has evinced 

 a profound tendency toward studies in the natural sciences. 

 Bartram's Botanical Garden was started in 1728, and Marshall's 

 in 1773. During the past century the university made repeated 

 attempts to establish studies in the natural sciences, and these 

 efforts were finally ended, in 1884, in the organization and opening 

 of the Biological School. Just before this, Dr. Horace Jayne, of 

 the university, had gone abroad to examine the most celebrated 



Wistab Institute of Anatomy and Biology. 



laboratories of the Old World. He became fully convinced of 

 the need in Philadelphia of a well-equipped biological school, 

 separate and distinct from any other. He gave himself to the 

 task of developing the school, and Provost William Pepper joined 

 heartily in the movement. Although the services of the Phila- 

 delphia Academy of Natural Sciences have been vast, its legiti- 

 mate work has been only original investigation. The general 

 scientific instruction in classes and by laboratory work remained 

 for the Biological School to do. A further advance in higher 

 education was made by opening the school to both sexes alike. 

 In this school has been developed a complete system of education, 

 different from but equal in value to the ordinary college course. 



