. Historical sketches of Kentucky : embracing its history, antiquities, and natural curiosities, geographical, statistical, and geological descriptions. MASONIC HALL, LEXINGTON, MEDICAL HALL, LEXINGTON, KY. TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY. 267 paratory department. The Rev. Henry B. Bascom, D. D., is president. Thealumni numbers about 650. The number of volumes in the library 4,500. The Medical School is under the supervision of eight trustees, and was foundedin 1818. It has eight professors, and an average, for several years, of about onehundred and seventy-five students. The number of graduates,


. Historical sketches of Kentucky : embracing its history, antiquities, and natural curiosities, geographical, statistical, and geological descriptions. MASONIC HALL, LEXINGTON, MEDICAL HALL, LEXINGTON, KY. TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY. 267 paratory department. The Rev. Henry B. Bascom, D. D., is president. Thealumni numbers about 650. The number of volumes in the library 4,500. The Medical School is under the supervision of eight trustees, and was foundedin 1818. It has eight professors, and an average, for several years, of about onehundred and seventy-five students. The number of graduates, up to January,1847, exceeded fifteen hundred. Connected with the institution is a fine museum,a very valuable library, and an extensive chemical apparatus for professors are able and generally distinguished men, and the institution,until recently, has had no rival in the west. The Law School, like the Medical college, is connected with the TransylvaniaUniversity. This department has three professors, (Judges Robertson, Woolleyand ^Marshall), who are distinguished for their learning and legal acquirements. The Lunatic Asylum is one of the noblest institution


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