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each medical school to conduct the final examination of candidates 

 for the diploma, in presence of some official person or persons pro- 

 perly qualified to recognize the attainments of the candidate, but 

 who has no pecuniary interest in the institution, or in the number of 

 its pupils. 



7. Resolved, That it be also recommended, that in lieu of the usual 

 inaugural thesis, or in addition thereto, each candidate for the 

 diploma be required to present to the faculty at or before the time 

 of final examination, a report drawn by himself, and from his per- 

 sonal observation of not fewer than five cases of disease, and upon 

 which he shall be duly examined. 



The difficulty of obtaining information upon some of the subjects 

 upon which it is required to report, induces your committee to offer 

 also the following : — 



8. Resolved, That the faculty of each medical school be requested 

 annually, and as early as possible to furnish the chairman of the 

 committee on education, with a statement of the number of pupils 

 and of graduates in their respective schools, together with such 

 other information as may expedite the labours of the committee, and 

 enable it to discharge the duties assigned by the constitution under 

 which it acts. 



A. H. STEVENS, 

 AMOS. TWITCHELL, 



B. R. WELLFORD, 

 A. NAUDAIN, 



R. D. ARNOLD, 

 L. P. BUSH. 



Note.— Every individual on the Committee has taken a part in the preparation of their 

 Report, but the Chairman takes occasion to offer his thanks to Dr. Pliny Earle, to whom it 

 chiefly owes its present form. 



