March 81, 1864. A special meeting of the Family was held at the house of Dr. Bushue 815 Marshall St. present: Prof. Goulds, Temple, Ewen, Winifred Scarlett & Cleveland. Dr. Goulds was called to the Chair. The following communication was received & read from Dr. Frank: Phila. Feb. 27, 1864. To the Faculty of the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania. "Both I write the word farewell; after seven years of work in behalf of the College & its Cause—labouring to the best of my ability in every poor way to promote the interests of both & under varying hopes, discouragement & disappointment; now in the hour of its success, when the reward of patient endurance seemed about to fall like ripe fruit into our hands, I must say farewell! It is one of the saddest volitions of my life! But I cannot do otherwise. Dithers I regret that after full discussion there should be such irreconcilable difference of view."

in a matter which, to my mind affects our integrity. I say it in sorrow, not in anger. I think the College is disgraced & I should feel myself degraded did I remain longer in connection with it. After years of holding up the standard (proclaiming to the world) that we seek & shew, not lower medical acquirements, while his family has been charging us with debasing the profession (falsely charging hitherto)—after publishing for years the necessity of a lengthened course of lectures & requiring two full courses on all the branches—on his very first occasion of being asked to do it; we violate our own rules, depart from the spirit & letter of our published well-known & wise requirements—tread on Homer in the dust & present ourselves a melancholy spectacle of amiable weakness, a work for the jeering, mocking of the enemies of his cause, & the object of bitter tears for our dear-sickening & firm-principled alumni & friends. It seems to me—and must be true to myself & the cause—and therefore with well-wishing for you all collecting

& individually, & prayers that you may have light & see his right way & strength to bear the load of responsibility which rests upon you, & asking you to bear with me now for his sake as the fact—if in my plain of such I have said anything which sounds harshly, lovingly & sorrowfully I bid you goodbye. Yours truly, Edwin Furnell. March 27th I have withheld any resignation until now for two reasons: 1st. That the unfinished work of the session might be completed without unpleasant interruption & 2nd. That I should not in haste do an act which I might afterward regret. A month has being passed by—the work of the session is nearly closed—and after mature reflection on the matter, in all its bearings & with the light & shades of subsequent events resting upon it, I am more than confident in the correctness of my course. The following resolutions were adopted by the faculty.

1. Resolved that we have received with deep regret & sorrow a communication from Dr. Edwin Russell, resigning for certain assigned reasons his place as a member of the faculty of the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania. 2. Resolved that although our understanding & appreciation of the peculiar facts of the case to which he alludes were different from his own & although we may have been mistaken in our course—yet we sympathize with the spirit that appears & have advocated him in that matter. 3. Resolved that precisely because we desire to have our standards made exceedingly high & more firmly enforced & because we honor his fidelity as a member of the faculty—we ask him, in the cause of our cause & for the sake of his institution with which he has so long been connected—to reconsider his resolution.