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operation.11 But by the end of the decade the Education
Society accumulated a subscription of nearly six thousand

dollars and fifteen hundred books. The Board of Trustees

next recruited teachers for the Morrison School. In February

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1839 the Rev. Samuel R. Brown arrived at Macao to take charge.
During the months in which Bridgman was organizing the

Morrison Education Society, Peter Parker observed an increasing
number of patients at his Opthalmic Hospital. Such success

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convinced Parker of the necessity to place the whole system
upon a surer footing by form ins] a socie-i::.y in C"'"lind." Joi i1.ed

in ;ii.is efforts by Bridgman and "....R. Colledge, who formerly

operated a dispensary at Macao, Parker appealed to foreign

residents for support in expanding Western medical work in

China. The Hospital already had use of a Factory, but Parker

argued the need for more doctors and medicines. In February

1838 a meeting at Canton established the Medical Missionary

Society with the proposed object of encouraging "gentlemen

of the medical profession to come and practice gratuitously

among the Chinese, by affording the usual aid of hospitals,

medicine, and attendants." The Society s president was
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The Chinese Repository also printed reports on annual
meetings of this Society. V, 8 (December 1836), 375; VI, 5
(June 1837), 244; VI, 5 (September 1837), 229; VII, 6 (October
1838), 301-03; X, 10 (October 1841), 564.
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williams, Middle Kingdom, 11, 342-45. Brown opened
the Morrison Sc}1ool at Macao in November 1839 with six students.
In 1841, when the mission moved to Hong Kong, Brown moved the
School there to a building donated by the English merchant
Lancelot Dent. By 1845 the School had thirty students, but it
closed in 1849, "owing chiefly to the departure of its early
patrons from China and the opening of new ports of trade,
scattering the foreign community so that funds could not be
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