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the middle portion. In the east and west wings ample space is assigned to the engineering museums, while the rear of this floor is set aside exclusively for additional drawing rooms, which, like those just beneath, will have the full advantage of a north light.

The engineering department of the university was established in 1874, but the constant increase of numbers in the classes of the departments has necessitated their moving into more spacious quarters three times since their founding. The departments this year have a total enrollment of nearly six hundred students, and a teaching force of forty.

As Mr. Taylor said at the close of his address: "Philadelphia is the center of the largest and most diversified group of engineering and manufacturing enterprises in this country. The engineering schools of the University of Pennsylvania already stand high; but it seems to me that the opportunity lies open to them even more than to their famous medical and law schools to stand at the very top. This magnificent building, equipped as it is with the latest and best of everything, is the first and a great step towards this end. But after all, your largest possibility and one which does not exist for, and can not be created by, any other American university, lies in the opportunity for bringing your students into close touch and personal contact with the men who are working in and managing the great industrial establishments of Philadelphia."

Harveian oration, delivered annually before the Royal College of Physicians, London, was given on October 18 by Dr. William Osier, regius professor of medicine in the University of Oxford, and formerly professor of medicine in the Johns Hopkins University, who chose as his subject 'The Growth of Truth: as illustrated in the discovery of the circulation of the blood.' With his felicity of expression and wealth of knowledge of the history of medicine and science, Dr. Osier reviewed again the instructive story of the discovery. Though rehearsed now for two hundred and fifty years by Harveian orators, the story loses in Dr. Osler's