EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS. Baltimore ranks as one of the foremost educational influences of the country. A graded system of public schools provides free instruction in kindergarten, pri mary. secondary, collegiate, and normal studies, and in manual training. The system comprises 109 schools, employing 1750 teachers, and in structing annually 35.000 pupils. Baltimore is the seat of the Johns Hopkins University, opened for instruction in 1876, and distinguished for its graduate courses. The institution owes its foundation to the beneficence of a Baltimore mer chant, who left a large fortune, in two nearly equal amounts, for the endowment of a univer sity and a hospital. Other institutions of learn ing are Saint Mary's Seminary of Saint Sulpice, Loyola College, Woman's College of Baltimore. Morgan College (eolored), and Saint Joseph's Seminary (colored). Among the professional schools are the law and medical departments of the University of Maryland. College of Physi cians and Surgeons, Baltimore Medical C-ollege, Baltimore University, Woman's Medical College, Maryland College of Pharmacy, and Baltimore College of Dental Surgery. The last named, founded in 1839, is the oldest dental college in the world. Other schools and academies are MeDonogh School. Bryn Mawr School. Calvert
Institute, Academy of the Visitation, Notre Dame of Maryland, and Mount de Sales Academy.
The Peabody Institute, endowed by George Peabody, who laid the foundation of his great fortune in Baltimore and entertained a strong friendship for its people. contains a valuable library of 143,000 volumes, an interesting art gallery, and a well-organized conservatory of music. The art galleries of Mr. Henry Walters contain one of the choicest private collections in the United States, and are opened to the public at certain seasons for the benefit of a local char ity. The Maryland Historical Society has a valuable collection books. pamphlets. and manuscripts, and an art gallery. The Maryland Academy of Sciences possesses interesting natu ral history collections. The Maryland Institute includes a school of art and design and a library.
The libraries of the city, in addition to those connected with the several institutions enumerat ed above, are the Enoch Pratt Free Library, con taining more than 200.000 volumes, with branch libraries in various parts of the city; the Balti more Bar Library, the Maryland Diocesan Li brary, the Medical and Chirurgieal Faculty Li brary, and the New Mercantile Library.