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.
From Asylum Projects. Also once known as the Worcester Lunatic Asylum and the Bloomingdale Asylum, this psychiatric facility's history dates back to before the main building was built. On January 12, 1833, the old Worcester Insane Asylum opened, and was the first of its kind constructed in the state of Massachusetts. When overcrowding became a problem, a new hospital was to be built-a massive structure laid out in the Kirkbride plan, which is the one featured in these photographs.