Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Proceedings of the Cleveland Academy of Natural Science, 1845 to 1859
In 1843 a branch of the Western Reserve College, located at Hudson, Ohio, was organized at Cleveland, under the name of the Cleveland Medical College. The Faculty were Professors Jared Potter Kirtland, John J. Delamater, Samuel St. John, J. Lang Cassells and H. A. Ackley. In their respective departments they represented a high grade of scientific attainment, and naturally gave an impulse to the cultivation of science. There had been, as early as 1811, a Library for circulation in Cleveland, which was dissipated, in 1813, by the excitement of the war with Great Britain.
A Lyceum was established in 1833, which embraced the general discussion of popular subjects, in debates, lectures and written essays. Since that time, numerous literary societies have been organized, most of them dying out after a brief career, and many of them leaving no records.
Until 1845 no attempt was made in the line of a strictly scientific association. At the suggestion of Prof. Kirtland a meeting of citizens was held on the 24th day of N ovem ber, in the Council Chamber, at which measures were taken for the formation of a Constitution, and a corporate existence.
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