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Rh for entrance in 1910, it asks a student to spend six years to get a degree in medicine, in attaining which he can enjoy only a very limited opportunity to learn internal medicine. It is safe to predict that on that basis the present facilities will not hold the student body together during the third and fourth years.

[See "New England," p. 261.]

Population, 8,706,039. Number of physicians, 14,117. Ratio, 1: 617.

Number of medical schools, 11, plus 4 postgraduate schools.

ALBANY: Population, 101,461.

(1) . Organized 1838. Nominally the medical department of Union University; actually an independent institution in all but form.

Entrance requirement: The Regents' Medical Student Certificate.

Attendance: 180, 91 per cent from New York state. Teaching staff: 94, of whom 16 are professors, 78 of other grade. The professor of chemistry, the associate professor of physiology, and the director of the Bender Laboratory are non-practitioners.

Resources available for maintenance: Practically fees only, amounting to $20,276. $10,000 have been bequeathed to the school as the nucleus of a building fund.

Laboratory facilities: The Bender Laboratory, at a considerable distance from the school,—with endowment sufficient to keep up insurance and repairs,—provides instruction in pathology, bacteriology, histology (not including embryology), clinical microscopy, and a small amount of demonstrative work in physiology. There is no course in pharmacology. The head of the laboratory is pathologist to the Albany Hospital and other institutions; autopsies are thus procured. The laboratory has made itself practically self-supporting through board of health and similar work. The college, after equipping it, now contributes to its support no more than it absolutely must in order to keep it going. In consequence, there is now little active research in progress.

At the medical school building good laboratories are provided for chemistry and physiological chemistry, and the usual dissecting-room with a few charts, models, etc. Otherwise equipment is scant. The laboratory branches have been slighted in pursuance of the policy of paying annual dividends to the faculty.

Clinical facilities: The main clinical reliance is the Albany Hospital, in which perhaps 200 beds are available. But three-fourths of the work of the hospital is surgery. The service in medicine and surgery rotates every three months. On the medical side, students work up assigned cases. In general surgery, students can only