In 1807 the College of Medicine of Maryland was organized, the
first class was graduated in 1810. A permanent home was established
in 1814-1815 by the erection of the building at Lombard and Greene
Streets in Baltimore. Here was founded one of the first medical
libraries (and the first medical school library) in the United States.
In 1812, the General Assembly of Maryland authorized the College of
Medicine of Maryland to "annex or constitute faculties of divinity,
law, and arts and sciences," and by the same Act declared that the
"colleges or faculties thus united should be constituted an university
by the name and under the title of the University of Maryland." By
authority of this Act, steps were taken in 1813 to establish a "faculty
of law," and in 1823 a regular school of instruction in law was opened.
Subsequently there were added: in 1882 a Department of Dentistry
which was absorbed in 1923 by the Baltimore College of Dental Sur-
gery, founded in 1840; in 1889 a School of Nursing; and in 1904 the
Maryland College of Pharmacy..

The Maryland State College was chartered in 1866 under the name
of the Maryland Agricultural College. For three years the College was
under private management. In 1862 the Congress of the United States
passed the Land Grant Act. This Act granted each State and Terri-
tory that should claim its benefits a proportionate amount of unclaimed
western lands, in place of scrip, the proceeds from the sale of which
should apply under certain conditions to the "endowment, support,
and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall
be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and includ-
ing military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related
to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such a manner as the Legisla-
tures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote
the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the
several pursuits and professions of life." This grant was accepted by
the General Assembly of Maryland, and the Maryland Agricultural
College was named as the beneficiary of the grant. In the fall of 1914
control was taken over entirely by the State. In 1916 the General
Assembly granted a new charter to the College, and made it the Mary-
land State College..

In 1920, by an Act of the State Legislature, the University of Mary-
land was merged with the Maryland State College, and the name of
the latter was changed to the University of Maryland..

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
and
STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE.

Publications: Cooperative Association Laws of Maryland, 1946.'
Comparative Census of Maryland Agriculture by Counties, 1946."
Your Farm Lease, 1947.".

Technique for Classifying Farm Land for Tax Purposes, 1946/
Postwar Revenues for Rural Public Services in Maryland, 1946.'
Improving Farm Income Tax Reporting, 1946.*
Forest Taxation in Maryland, 1947.'
Form Real Estate Trends in Maryland, 1947.'.

' Extension Bulletin.
* Experiment Station.
' Miscellaneous Publication..