Identifier: foundersweekmemo00phil (find matches)
Title: Founders' week memorial volume : containing an account of the two hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the city of Philadelphia, and histories of its scientific institutions, medical colleges, hospitals, etc.
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Philadelphia (Pa.) Founders' Week Celebration. Executive Committee Henry, Frederick Porteus, 1844-
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Publisher: Philadelphia : pub. by City of Philadelphia
Contributing Library: University of Pennsylvania Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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he College, not an independent department. An offshoot from this, or rather, a part of its equipment, wasthe Laboratory of Marine Biology established in 1891 at Sea IsleCity, New Jersey. Some five acres of ground on Ludlams Baywere given to the University by Charles K. Landis, the principallandowner of Sea Isle, and an industrious collection of funds bysome of those interested in the School made possible the buildingof a laboratory with aquaria and other necessary furniture, boats,dredges, etc. The object was to give facilities for investigatorsand students gathered, especially during the summer months, andsome good work was done, especially in testing the possibility ofartificial propagation of oysters on the New Jersey coast. Nosufficient support, however, was obtained, the location being some-what remote, and the principal promoters of the plan either losttheir interest in it or were forced to devote their time to otherthings. The seashore laboratory, therefore, gradually sank into
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«!o 3o o University of Pennsylvania 259 a condition of disuse from which only occasional and temporaryrevivals have roused it. Still more closely connected with medical study is the Depart-ment of Hygiene. This Department was established in a build-ing, the gift of Mr. Henry C. Lea, and on an endowment given bythe family of Mr. H. C. Gibson. The Laboratory of Hygiene wasformally opened February 22, 1892, Dr. John S. Billings thenbeing Director, and instruction to medical and other studentsimmediately began. Since that time various changes have takenplace, Dr. Alexander C. Abbott becoming Director and Dr. D. H.Bergey Assistant Professor of Bacteriology. Instruction is givento all students in the Medical Department, and to a large numberof those in Architecture and the College. In this department, asin that of Veterinary Medicine, there is a close connection withthe public service, courses in public health being given especiallyintended to prepare men for service in the health departme

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