vania Freeman_: "A Discourse on Woman," to be
delivered by Lucretia Mott, at the Assembly Buildings,
December 17, 1849.

Lectures by Elizabeth Oakes Smith, April 6, 8, and 10, 1853,
on "Manhood," "Womanhood," "Humanity."

_North American and United States Gazette_: Lucretia Mott
will deliver a lecture on the "Medical Education of Woman,"
February 2, 1853.

Horace Mann will lecture on "Woman," February 3, 1853.

_Philadelphia Public Ledger_, January 20, 1854: Lucy Stone
will deliver a lecture on "Woman's Rights," at Musical Fund
Hall, Saturday evening, January 21.

April 12, 1854: Mrs. Ernestine L. Rose will lecture on
Thursday evening, April 13, at Spring Garden Institute, on
"The Education and Influence of Woman"; and on Friday
evening, April 14th, at Sansom Street Hall, on "The Legal
Disabilities of Woman." Tickets, 25 cents.

WOMAN'S MEDICAL COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA.

In September, 1850, in a rented building, No. 229 Arch Street,
Philadelphia, the College began its first session with six pupils;
others were added before the class graduated, so that it then numbered
eight:--Hannah E. Longshore, Ann Preston, Phebe W. May, Susanna H.
Ellis, Anna M. Longshore, Pennsylvania; Martha M. Laurin,
Massachusetts; Angonette A. Hunt, New York; Frances G. Mitchell,
England. Since its foundation, the "Woman's Medical College of
Pennsylvania" has prospered, and on its lists of graduates we see,
among other familiar names, those of Dr. Laura Ross Wolcott (1856),
Dr. Mary J. Scarlett Dixon (1857), and Dr. Emeline H. Cleveland
(1855).

Chief among those interested in placing the medical education of woman
on a sound foundation was Ann Preston. The "Woman's Medical College
of Pennsylvania" was the first ever chartered for this purpose, and
Dr. Preston early became identified with its interests. She was one of
its first students, and a graduate at its first commencement. After
the didactic teaching of the regular college course was well
established, each year showed to her more clearly the necessity for
clinical and hospital instruction, since its students were denied such
advantages in other places; and to Dr. Preston's thorough appreciation
of this need may be traced the very origin of the Woman's Hospital in
Philadelphia. Speaking of her efforts in this direction, sh