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Surgery will be greatly accepted by, Gentlemen, your most obedient and very humble servant, W. Shippen, jr. : and on this being read at a Special Meeting on 23 September, 1765, " the Trustees by an Unanimous Vote appointed him Pro- fessor of Anatomy and Surgery in this Seminary." Morgan and Shippen well bore the honors of this Faculty and trained up a worthy band of young men who earned their honors in 1768. But their number was added to in January 2 of this year by the appointment of Dr. ADAM KUHN, on his request, to the Professorship of Botany and Materia Medica "the Trustees having ample assurance of his abilities to fill that Pro- fessorship, for which he is likewise particularly recommended by the Medical Trustees and Professors belonging to the College itself." Dr. Kuhn was born in Germantown in 1741, the son of a physician who was a native of Suabia. He was entered a pupil in the Academy in 1751, and in 1752 the father moving to Lancaster was there instrumental in establishing a school in which the Greek and Latin Languages were taught by eminent masters, and there young Kuhn continued his elementary educa- tion and commenced his medical studies under his father. In 1761 he went to Europe, and first resorting to Sweden for instruction in botany and materia medica at the hands of Lin- naeus, he subsequently went to Edinburgh and received his degree from that university in 1767. He returned from Europe in January, 1768, and at once received his Professorship. His first^ course was on Botany in May following. He held the Chair of Materia Medica for twenty-one years until he assumed the Chair of Practice. Before any of the medical students could be prepared for their honors, both Morgan and Shippen realised the value of framing rules for the guidance of the new Faculty in examining them. At the meeting of 12 May, 1767, Dr. Smith laid before the Board the following Plan for conducting the Medical Education and conferring Medical Degrees which he said had been prepared at several private meetings in which he had been present with the Minutes, 26 January, 1768.