the lectures and may apply for such examination, in order to decide on the proficiency of the pupils; and should the decision be favorable, a certificate to that effect shall be given to every successful candidate, for which the sum of two dollars and fifty cents may be demanded from each person receiving it.
“The certificate shall be in such form as the Faculty may determine, to be approved by the Trustees; and each certificate to a medical graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, or any other medical school on the ad eundem list, shall, under the sanction of the Board, receive the seal of the University and the signature of the Provost.
“The Professors shall be appointed for one year, after public notice of at least three months, at the regular meeting of the Board in November next, nominations having been made at a preceding meeting, and shall be reappointed annually thereafter during satisfactory service, at the regular meeting of the Board in the same month, so long as the plan for the establishment of the Auxiliary Faculty of Medicine now adopted shall continue in operation.”
In accordance with the above resolutions, on November 7th, 1865, the following gentlemen were elected by the Board of Trustees to fill the several Chairs that had been created:—
- Harrison Allen, M. D., Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy.
- Horatio C. Wood, M. D., Professor of Botany.
- F. V. Hayden, M. D., Professor of Geology and Mineralogy.
- Henry Hartshorne, M. D., Professor of Hygiene.
- John J. Reese, M. D., Professor of Medical Jurisprudence.
With the addition above stated, the Medical Faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, as constituted January 1, 1869, is as follows:—
- George B. Wood, M. D., LL. D., Emeritus Professor of Theory and Practice of Medicine.
- Samuel Jackson, M. D., Emeritus Professor of Institutes of Medicine.
- Hugh L. Hodge, M. D., Emeritus Professor of Obstetrics and the Diseases of Women and Children.
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