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159 Nursing in America 159 subsequent expansion in their countries. For some years all was individual, more or less, isolated effort. Only the slightest outline of personalities can be given here, yet there was a group whose names should be brought together for briefest mention. Louise Darche and Diana C. Kimber reorganized the New York City School on Blackwell's Island. Harriet Camp, head of the Brooklyn school for nurses, wrote the first book on Ethics. Anna C. Maxwell organized the Boston City school and that of the Presbyterian hospital in New York. She became the Dean of American superintendents, and her long administration, her skill in training, and her unusual judgment gave her special emi- nence. Irene Sutliffe, in the New York hospital, Lucy Drown, in the Boston City, Mary E. P. Davis, in the University hospital of Philadelphia, and Sophia Palmer at the head of the Garfield in Washington, had years of great personal influence. The two latter were among the first to invade men's positions as superintendents of general hos- pitals. Linda Richards, after distinguished work in Boston, founded a mission training school in Japan, then came home and carried on a nursing reformation in hospitals for the insane, going from one to another, and leaving each with an improved