will have accomplished the chief object for which it was written.* * Since the year 1827, when this history was first published, many changes have been made in the University, some of which have been referred to in notes which were introduced on the occasion of its republication in 1834. Still greater changes have been made subsequently to the last-mentioned date, of which those which concern the Medical Department will be found recorded in the history of that department, prepared a short time since by Prof. Joseph Carson, M.D., of the medical faculty, to which allusion has been already made. The author would have great pleasure in bringing down his narrative to the present times, which are likely to constitute an important era in the history of the school, in consequence of its contemplated removal to the recently purchased grounds in West Philadelphia; but he is compelled to forego this satisfaction, by his increasing age and infirmities, which render the necessary researches impossible.-Feb. 1872. |