Fourth annual report of the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, 1879.

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1879
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Credit: Fourth annual report of the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, 1879. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Other Scientific Foundations. the fact that the wants of Baltimore and the region near to it were to be first considered; and they have steadily endeavored to develop an establish- ment which should aid and be aided by the plans and funds of other foundations, so that in time all the educational work of Baltimore may go forward in harmony. The local institutions with which it seemed especially desirable to cooperate were these: — the Peabody Institute, having an endowment of $1,250,000, maintaining a large and well chosen Library, a system of public lectures, a conserva- tory of music, and an art museum; the Johns Hopkins Hospital, the buildings of which are in process of construction; the Maryland Institute, which is the proper nucleus for a Technological School; the Maryland Academy of Sciences, which has undertaken to establish a museum of Natural History; the professional schools of Law and Medicine, and also those of Dentistry and Phar- macy; the Historical, Mercantile, Law, and Medi- cal Libraries; the State Normal School; and—if last to be mentioned, first to be thought of—the public schools, of which, so far as boys are con- cerned, the City College is the head, and the private schools, maintained by individual or asso- ciated efforts. M hile looking directly at local requirements, the Trustees had no desire to restrict the useful-