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In the University of Harvard, candidates who have not received 

 a collegiate education, are subjected to an examination on Natural 

 Philosophy and the Latin language; he is required to translate ad 

 aperturam libri Cicero's orations. The same practice obtains in 

 the Medical Societies of Massachusetts in their examinations for 

 license to practice. 



The faculty of the Medical College of Georgia has already an- 

 nounced its intention to lengthen its sessions, and to institute other 

 reform as soon as that course is generally adopted by other institu- 

 tions, and has recently passed a resolution to follow such recom- 

 mendations for the improvement of medical education as this Asso- 

 ciation may think proper to suggest. 



The Faculty of the Medical Department of Geneva College, and 

 that of Rush Medical College, have decided upon extending their 

 terms, whenever the institutions generally will do the same.* 



3. Your committee are not yet in possession of the requisite data 

 for giving "the reputed number of pupils and of graduates at the 

 medical institutions of the country during the past year." 



In the session of 1846-7, the number of pupils at twenty-five 

 schools was 4192; and the number of graduates at twenty-four 

 schools, was 1188. 



4. The requirements of the United States Army and Navy 

 Boards of Medical Examiners were so fully presented to the Asso- 

 ciation last year, that it is unnecessary to report them at the pre- 

 sent time. 



5. In 1842 a Committee of the Munroe Medical Society, New 

 York, was appointed, for the purpose of reporting upon the legisla- 

 tive enactments, in relation to medicine in the several States of the 

 Union. They collected information from twenty-two of the twenty- 

 six then existing States. Of these, the legislatures of eight, viz. : 

 New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North 

 Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee and Missouri, had never passed any 

 laws upon the subject. 



In ten, viz.: Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Mary- 

 land, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Indiana and Ohio, all 

 previously existing laws had been abolished. 



* While this Report is in press, the Medical Colleges of Georgia and of South Caro- 

 lina respectively announce the extension of their terms to five months. 



