This trip, only 88 years after Darwin's visit to GalÃ¡pagos (recorded in his Diary of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle, is remarkable not only for the breadth of work done in a very short time, and for the fact that, in a world where it may take years after the fact for conference proceedings to be published, within six months after their return, nearly twenty-two scientific papers were already published or nearly ready to be so.
After the war, she retired to an apartment in the first hospital that she had founded, in Trenton, New Jersey. The year 1841 also marked the beginning of the superintendence of Dr. John Galt at Eastern Lunatic Asylum, in Williamsburg, Virginia, the first publicly supported psychiatric hospital in America.
In Australia foster care was known as boarding-out. Foster care had its early stages in South Australia in 1866 and stretched to the second half of the 19th century. It is said that the system was mostly run by women until the early 20th century. Then the control was centered in many state children's departments.