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Rh available for instruction. Bedside teaching is carried on; but post-mortem work for the benefit of the students is meager. Some additional clinical work is procured at hospitals maintained by the city and by the United States government. In general, the laboratory and clinical departments are not as yet effectively correlated. The teachers of the third and fourth years are, excepting the dean, practitioners who are not in touch with the laboratory work and ideals as realized at Berkeley. Efforts are, however, making to bridge the gap.

The hospital is unfortunately situated from the standpoint of a dispensary; such material as there is, is not well used from a teaching point of view. The students do not in all departments take an active part in the dispensary work. For example, in some of them they have nothing to do with making up the records, which are separately kept in the several departments. No report, showing the number of the distribution of cases, is obtainable.

Date of visit: May, 1909.

(8) . Until 1908, the Cooper Medical College offered a fouryear course based on high school graduation. Its property has now been deeded to Stanford University, its buildings being the seat of the clinical department of Stanford University School of Medicine, the instruction of the last five semesters being given in Cooper Hall and Lane Hospital. That of the first three semesters is given at Palo Alto. As its present classes graduate, the Cooper Medical College passes out of existence and its faculty disbands.

Entrance requirement: Three years of college work.

Attendance: 16 in first year (fourth collegiate year). No other year's work has yet been given.

Teaching staff: 21, of whom 16 are professors. Six professors and one assistant professor give their entire time to medical work. The clinical professors thus far chosen have been taken from the former faculty of the Cooper Medical College.

Resources available for maintenance: The department will share in the general income of the university. A special library endowment amounts to about $250,000.

Laboratory facilities: These are provided at Palo Alto on the same scale as other departments there (anatomy, pharmacology, bacteriology, physiology, physiological chemistry). The school has an unusually valuable library of some 35,000 volumes and receives the main current medical periodicals, American and foreign.

Clinical facilities: Clinical work on the part of Stanford University is not yet begun. The university now owns the Lane Hospital of 125 beds, which has hitherto been conducted as a pay institution. Patients paying $10 a week are used for clinical