But it possesses little else; and until it is endowed with a fund sufficient to yield an annual income adequate to its support, its usefulness must be crippled and contracted. That this fund will be provided, its directors feel confident, and will not rest in their efforts until it is obtained. It is, indeed, a source of some mortification to them that although our infirmary was the first established in America, and in its wealthiest and most important city, two others which arose in consequence of its erection, have succeed in obtaining endowments far beyond ours.