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 “The Faculty shall comprise five Professorships, of—1, Zoology and Comparative Anatomy; 2, Botany; 3, Mineralogy and Geology; 4, Hygiene; 5, Medical Jurisprudence, including Toxicology. The occupants of these Chairs shall constitute the Members of the Auxiliary Faculty. It must be understood as essential in the fulfilment of the duties of these Chairs that the three branches of Natural History, forming the subjects of the three Professorships first mentioned, shall be taught mainly in reference to their medical relations, and in other respects only so far as may serve to give a general view of the subject whereby the several facts may be duly connected and arranged.

“The Faculty shall appoint a Dean from among its members, whose duty it shall be to preside over and keep minutes of the meetings, and to perform all the executive functions that may be entrusted to him.

“It shall have power to determine the time of lecturing of the several Professors, to fix the terms of admission to the lectures, which, however, shall be uniform for all, and shall not exceed ten dollars from each pupil for each Professor; to make rules for its own government; to regulate the common expenses; and to do whatever else is incidental to its constitution, every question being decided by a majority of the members present, provided they form a quorum.

“The several courses shall consist of at least thirty-four lectures, to be delivered at hours fixed by the Faculty, three times a week, during the months of April, May, and June, commencing on the first Monday of April, and ending on the last Saturday of June.

“They shall be given with the assent of the Medical Faculty in the Lecture Rooms of the building occupied by that Faculty, and it will be the duty of the Auxiliary Faculty to take care that the apartments appropriated to their use are kept in due order while occupied by them, and properly cleansed at the end of each course; and should this requisition be disregarded, the cost of supplying the deficiency shall be defrayed by a pro rata deduction from the salaries of the Professors.

“At the end of the courses the Faculty shall hold an examination, under such regulations as they may deem best, of the pupils who may have attended at least one full course of all