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 402 PHILADELPHIA 1855; a supplementary act of incorporation was passed in 1864, and in that year the build- ing now occupied was completed. It has a library of 16,000 volumes, and its cabinets of minerals, geological specimens, shells, dried plants, &c., are very valuable. There are six professors, and two courses of lectures, attend- ed by from 500 to 1,000 persons, are annually delivered on chemistry, geology and palaeon- tology, anatomy and physiology, astronomy, natural philosophy, and elocution and oratory. Instruction is also given in civil, mining, and steam engineering. The divinity school of the Protestant Episcopal church, in 39th and Wal- nut streets, West Philadelphia, was established in 1862. In 1874-'5 it had 6 professors, 36 students, and a library of 6,000 volumes. The theological seminary of the Evangelical Luther- an church, in Franklin street, was founded in 1864. In 1874-'5 it had 6 professors and a library of 2,500 volumes. The whole number of graduates was 103. There are three medical colleges, besides the medical department of the university, two dental colleges, and a college of pharmacy. These are the Jefferson medical college, in 10th street, between Chestnut and Walnut; the Hahnemann medical college of Philadelphia, in Filbert near llth street, the oldest homoeopathic college in the world ; the woman's medical college of Pennsylvania, in College avenue near N. 22d street ; the Penn- sylvania college of dental surgery, in 10th and Arch streets ; the Philadelphia dental college, in N. 10th street ; and the Philadelphia college of pharmacy, in 10th street, near Race. The latest statistics of these institutions appear in the following table : INSTITUTIONS. Date of organization. No. of instructors. No. of students. Jefferson medical college 1825 12 483 Hahnemann medical college. . Woman's medical college 1848 1850 19 14 130 50 Pa. college of dental surgery.. Phil, dental college 1856 1863 8 9 59 78 Phil, college of .pharmacy 1821 3 251 The Franklin institute occupies a plain and substantial building in 7th street near Chest- nut, containing a fine lecture room; it was incorporated in 1824, and is designed to pro- mote manufactures and the mechanic and useful arts. It has a library, and maintains courses of lectures on different branches of science. The school of design for women in Penn square, founded in 1848, affords gratui- tous instruction. The American philosophical society, in S. 5th street, was incorporated in 1780. It has a cabinet of coins and relics, and a library containing 15,000 pamphlets besides bound volumes. The academy of natural sci- ences, founded in 1812 and incorporated in 1817, has a valuable library and very extensive collections in zoology, ornithology, geology, mineralogy, paleontology, conchology, eth- nology, archaeology, and botany. Gratuitous instruction is given in natural science. Ad- mission is obtained to the collection upon pay- ment of a small fee. The building now occu^ pied is on the corner of Broad and Sansom streets. A new and extensive building of serpentine stone with trimmings of Ohio sand- stone, in the collegiate Gothic style, is in course of erection on the corner of 19th and Race streets. The academy of fine arts, in Broad and Cherry streets, was founded in 1805 and incorporated in 1807 ; it has very valuable art collections, and holds annual exhibitions. The building has a front of 100 ft. on Broad street and a depth of 258 ft. on Cherry street ; it is of a modified Gothic style, and is profusely ornamented. The Handel and Haydn society, in Arch street, is chiefly devoted to music, but possesses a library of standard works. The historical society of Pennsylvania, in Spruce street, was incorporated in 1826 ; its library, containing besides bound volumes 40,000 pam- phlets and 20,000 folios of manuscripts, is particularly rich in local and family histories. The numismatic and antiquarian society of Philadelphia, in Walnut street, has a library and a collection of 6,700 coins, medals, &c., chiefly ancient, and 300 antiques and medal- lions ; it was incorporated in 1858. The American Baptist historical society, in Arch street, has a library containing besides bound volumes 16,000 pamphlets and 453 manuscripts. The Athenaeum of Philadelphia occupies an imposing building in 6th and Adelphi streets ; it has a fine library and a reading room sup- plied with the principal American and foreign newspapers and periodicals. The library com- pany of Philadelphia was formed in 1731 by Benjamin Franklin and others; its library, commonly known as the Philadelphia library, is next to the mercantile the largest in the city ; the building, in S. 5th and Library streets, was erected in 1789. The mercantile library, organized in 1821, belongs to shareholders, and is accessible to others upon the payment, of annual dues ; its reading room is supplied with the principal American and foreign news- papers and periodicals; the building, in 10th street above Chestnut, has a frontage of 74 ft. and a depth of 184 ft., and is one of the finest buildings for library purposes in the country. Other libraries are the apprentices' (free), es- tablished in 1821, in Arch street; that of the Catholic Philopatrian literary institute, in Lo- cust street; the Dial library, in S. 5th street; that of the German society of Pennsylvania, in S. 7th street ; of the library association of Friends, in Race near 15th street; of the mechanics' institute of Southwark, in S. 5th street; of St. Philip's literary institute, in Queen street ; of the law association of Phila- delphia, at 6th and Chestnut streets; of the Moyamensing literary institute, at S. llth and Catharine streets; of the Spring Garden insti- tute, at Broad and Spring Garden streets ; and the Southwark library, in S. 2d street. The latest statistics of the libraries above mentioned are as follows :