JANUARY 11, 1901.] 
reality suffering from the lack of men with 
college training. 
If our colleges could turn into the pro- 
fession of medicine those of their students 
who find within themselves a peculiar 
adaptability to its work, to take the place 
of the thousands of uneducated men who at 
present are attracted to it by commercial 
motives alone, they would accomplish a 
most useful work for humanity at large. 
W. H. Howe :.. 
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY. 
THE OPENING OF THE HALL OF NATURAL 
HISTORY, TRINITY COLLEGE. 
On December 7th the new Hall of Nat- 
ural History of Trinity College was formally 
- opened. 
The Rev. George Williamson Smith, D.D., 
President of the College, delivered the ad- 
dress of welcome, as follows: 
“Tt gives me great pleasure to welcome 
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of chemistry and mineralogy, of agriculture 
and political economy, and of botany. A 
professor of natural philosophy was to be 
appointed at an early day. It was a radical 
departure from the college curriculum ac- 
cepted at that time to give such a large 
place to scientific study, and the difference 
was increased by a provision that students 
could be admitted to ‘ pursue such particular 
studies as might be suited to their circum- 
stances,’ ‘or as the inclination of their 
parents or guardians might require.’ The 
additional announcement that ‘if, in the 
end’ of their association with the college, 
‘the amount of the attainments’ of special 
students ‘should be judged by the faculty 
to be equal to the knowledge acquired in 
the regular course, they might be candidates 
for the Degrees in Arts, which would be 
conferred on the students in that course,’ 
is still regarded as revolutionary in most 
of our colleges. 
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Fig. 1. The Hall of Natural History. 
you to Trinity College on this occasion. 
It is the realization of what was under- 
taken by the trustees of Washington Col- 
lege when they issued their prospectus in 
1824. In that prospectus we find that pro- 
fessors had been appointed for departments 
‘The position and importance given to 
scientific studies attracted a large number 
of students who wished to prepare for the 
study of medicine or for scientific pursuits, 
and among the early students a large pro- 
portion became distinguished physicians. 
