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of the Academy of Medicine may be obtained on special 

 presentation. 



The Musee Dupuytren has a valuable collection of 

 pathological specimens; and the Musee Orfila at the 

 ficole de Medecine is an excellent museum of normal 

 anatomy and physiology. Valuable parasitological col- 

 lections are also to be found at the laboratory of para- 

 sitology, and there are special collections at various 

 hospitals. 



Societies. Especially valuable to the post-graduate 

 student are the weekly meetings of the Societe de biologic, 

 the Societe medicale des hopitaux, as well as the reunions 

 of the Academic de Medecine, at which he may listen to 

 the discussion of the actualities of medicine and biological 

 science by the leading students of the day. 



