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Rh board at a special meeting, accompanied with a written proposal from Dr. Morgan, "setting forth his plan of opening medical schools under the patronage and government of the college, and intimating his desire to be appointed professor of the theory and practice of physic." The trustees approved the scheme, and "entertaining a high sense of Dr. Morgan's abilities, and the honours paid to him by different learned bodies and societies in Europe," unanimously appointed him to the office for which he applied. The date of this event, the 3d of May, 1765, is deserving of commemoration, as the birth day, in America, of that system of medical education, which has been carried to such high perfection, and has so