178 MEDICINE 



libraries at the School of Medicine, the Pasteur In- 

 stitute, the Biological Society, etc. In the use of these 

 libraries the American student will not find the same 

 freedom and liberality that he is accustomed to in 

 American universities. So far as the writer is informed 

 none of the Continental libraries follow the generous 

 American plan of giving students free access to books and 

 periodicals. But if the regulations in force are learned 

 and observed, no serious difficulty is encountered in 

 obtaining any literature that may be desired. 



Outside this routine work in lectures and in labora- 

 tories, the physiological student in Paris has an almost 

 unequaled opportunity to acquire a broad cultural basis 

 in the related sciences and in the historical develop- 

 ment of his subject. Numerous public lectures and 

 exercises may be attended without charge; and in the 

 many museums, especially in the Museum of the Con- 

 servatoire National des Arts et Metiers, objects of 

 historical interest in science may be seen and studied. 



