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ence than the University can exercise through its examinations. In the Faculty of Medicine we have introduced reforms of a tentative character, circumscribed by existing regulations. The principle of those reforms is to strengthen the scientific character of the Institution, to create a faculty, membership of which will constitute the highest reward for professional ability ; to ensure continuity of teaching as well as to open possibilities of research ; to make the fullest use of the splendid opportunities which this city offers to the medical student by throwing our hospitals open to the best men of the local profession, so that their professional knowledge may benefit our students, and that they themselves may remain in touch with medical science. In doing this and I only discovered the fact after the Government Resolution was issued—I find that we have acted in accordance with the views of the two eminent late Principals of this College. Dr. Cook said on March 2nd, 1882, at a distribution of prizes to the students: "I would strongly advocate that the process might be immediately begun by the appointment of members of the general profession as a supplementary staff to the existing hospitals. While I hope the time is not far distant when other hospitals may spring up in this city and elsewhere, which may be entirely under the management of medical men independent of the medical service." According to Dr. Cook, "the profession had reached a stage when it may lay claim to a share of those public duties which, though they should be here as elsewhere unpaid, bring with them their own reward." On the 10th of February 1883, at the annual meeting of the Grant Medical College, Dr. Carter gave it as his opinion that " it has become urgently desirable to appoint a few talented native tutors and demonstrators, whose whole time would be devoted to the learner's benefit ; and he might ask whether or not it be expedient also to nominate an assistant or deputy professor in the more highly technical subjects, who on emergency, or as a successor, could take the place of the full professor." "The suggestion," he further said, "seems not amiss, that college professors be always taken as they are in the chief European colleges from amongst the best qualified men available, whereever to be found; and eventually it may happen that a moiety, at least, of our teachers, will be thus derived from the alumni of Grant College, their alma mater." A great deal more remains to be done. How much you will understand if I give you the programme of lectures by Professors of the Medical Faculty of the University of  Amsterdam. (1) Anatomy, General and Comparative (2)Physiology, Microscopy, Practical Physi-