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Left, The College of Physicians and Surgeons. The Lyceum of Natural History held its founding meeting on 29 January 1817 in a room in the College of Physicians and Surgeons on Barclay Street near Broadway. The Lyceum continued to meet at the college until 21 April 1817 when it moved into a room at the New York Institution. [Courtesy of the New York Academy of Medicine.]. Right, Samuel Latham Mitchill, MD (1764-1831), Founder and President of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York City 1817-1823 [From oil painting attributed to Rembrant Peale, Courtesy of the Academy of Natural Sciences.]

Left, The College of Physicians and Surgeons. The Lyceum of Natural History held its founding meeting on 29 January 1817 in a room in the College of Physicians and Surgeons on Barclay Street near Broadway. The Lyceum continued to meet at the college until 21 April 1817 when it moved into a room at the New York Institution. [Courtesy of the New York Academy of Medicine.]. Right, Samuel Latham Mitchill, MD (1764-1831), Founder and President of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York City 1817-1823 [From oil painting attributed to Rembrant Peale, Courtesy of the Academy of Natural Sciences.]

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