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516 Philadelphia the college has quietly pursued its work, through the past eighteen years, with steadily increasing success, notwithstanding the unfriendly attitude of the ordinary pro- fessional organizations, and has sent forth a goodly number of skilful physicians. Its corporators assert that *Mts cur- riculum of study and requirements for graduation are in all respects as high as those of the best medical schools in this country'* and present a catalogue of thirty-eight regular stu- dents for the year 1867. At the college in New York, chartered in 1863, one hundred intelligent ladies have already received instruction from a competent corps of pro- fessors. Many of these have not designed to practise as phj'sicians ; but have availed themselves of this method for obtaining knowledge invaluable to them in their own homes. Twenty-nine have completed the course, and received the legal diploma ; and there ai-e now thirty students in regular attendance. The New York Infirmary also, now in its four- teenth year, originated and still chiefly managed by Drs. Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell, has well earned an honorable position and done noble service. It has furnished advice and medicine gratuitously to more than seven thousand women and children during the past year. These ladies have in view the organization of a college, for which a considerable fund has already been collected and a preparatory class formed. In various other directions preliminary steps have been taken toward the same end ; and there are estimated to be as manj' as three hundred wopien, in full practice, scattered through the land. These institutions are yet in their infancy, and the opposition to their object has be^n such, on the part of male members of the profession, that they have found difli- culty in securing instructors of* the highest grade and facilities for thorough clinical or anatomical study. This, however, they are gradually overcoming, and, we doubt not, will soon occupy a position, fully equal at least to that of