766 The American Naturalist. [September, 
For this purpose you will need largeendowments. You will 
require a hospital with dispensary service. This need not be 
a very large hospital, but it should be entirely under your 
control. You will require additional laboratories of pathology, 
hygiene, pharmacology, and physiological chemistry. The 
teachers selected should be also investigators and those engaged 
in the scientific departments should be well paid, so that they 
can give their whole time to their subjects. 
Medical education has not been a favorite object of endow- 
ment. Its needs are very imperfectly understood by the com- 
munity, and our medical schools in the past have for the most 
part not been such as to encourage their support by private 
beneficence. But these conditions are changing as witness the 
names of such benefactors of medical education as Johns Hop- 
kins, Vanderbilt and Mary Garrett. 
Every one who has a patriotic pride in seeing this country 
take its proper place in the great movement forward in medical 
science and education, would rejoice to see here in connection 
with this University and in Chicago, such a medical school as 
I have endeavored to indicate. In no other direction could 
this University expand with greater promise of usefulness and 
renown, than in the promotion of the highest medical educa- 
tion. With the unbounded energy and will of this University 
and of this city, never content with what has been accom- 
plished, however wonderful, but building for the future, it is 
not too much to say that you could attain something greater 
and better than has been hitherto achieved. 
In conclusion, I desire to express the hope, indeed the con- 
viction, that the Hull Biological Laboratories, which are now 
open for active work, will fulfil their high promise, will be 
guided by wisdom, will cherish high ideals, will contribute 
abundantly to knowledge, will be a centre to which students 
will wander from far and near, will be a fortress of sound bio- 
logical thought and education. 
