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Excerpt from Transactions of the Maryland Academy of Science and Literature, Vol. 1 The first successful efforts to organize an association in Baltimore, for the promotion of science and litera ture were made in the year 1822. Similar associations had been previously contemplated; some had actually gone into operation, but they soon disappeared after an ephemeral existence. The Maryland Academy of Science and Literature was opened under more favour able auspices. A greater number of persons presented themselves Willing to advance by their zeal the objects and the pursuits embraced within the scheme so that, at already an early stage of its organization, by the spontaneous liberality of some of its members and of other gentlemen, the academy found itself in posses sion of an extensive collection of minerals, and an her barium, the nucleus of a cabinet around which new materials might daily accumulate, and without which no association of like character can expect to hold together, nor can in truth be said to have an existence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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