Oratio inauguralis : quam in academia Harvardiana, Cantabrigiae Novanglorum, nonis Octobribus, A.D. MDCCLXXXIII / habuit Benjamin Waterhouse.

  • Waterhouse, Benjamin, 1754-1846.
Date:
1829
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Credit: Oratio inauguralis : quam in academia Harvardiana, Cantabrigiae Novanglorum, nonis Octobribus, A.D. MDCCLXXXIII / habuit Benjamin Waterhouse. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    If the primordium of our Medical School; and if the date of the first lectures in this new world, on Natural History in general, and on Mineralogy and Botany inpar- ticular* be a matter of little importance now, it does not follow, but that an authentic record of such events will be a subject of more than simple curiosity in times to come. The public have been recently apprized, by the first man in the nation,] how little was actually known of one Har- vard,—a name that will be venerated so long as the Uni- versity shall exist! Cambridge, New-England, January 1829. • First given by the autlwr in 1786 and 1787 in the Rhode Island College ; and from that period, during more than twenty years, in the University of Cambridge. See his Botanist, printed in 1811,—being the Botanical part of his course of JVatural History. t By His Excellency Johx Quincy Adams, Prcsident of the United States, on the completion o/ the monument, just erected in this vicinity, to the memory ofthe Rev. John Harvard, a native of Old England.