Excerpt from Transactions of the Maryland Academy of Science, Vol. 1: 1888-1900 The present Maryland Academy of Sciences was organized by Mr. Philip T. Tyson, Rev. John G. Morris, and several other prominent gentlemen of the city of Baltimore, with a View to the cultivation of a Scientific spirit in this community, and to enlarge the boundaries of their own knowledge through comparison and discussion with other students of the sciences. A prominent object of the organization was also to. Acquire wider and more accurate information respecting the natural resources of the State of Maryland. 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.