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ferior positions as teachers, the truth of the old adage — "At the 

 top there is always room " — and most eloquently plead with 

 women to prepare themselves to ably fill the higher positions, an- 

 swering the argument against the time consumed in preparation 

 for such positions by statements showing that a woman of average 

 ability could, by the age of twenty-five, gain the title of Doctor 

 of Philosophy, and before that age she could not have reached 

 the development of character for filling rightly a position which 

 that title would enable her to obtain. Merely obtaining high 

 degrees, however, is not what was urged, but special preparation 

 in some one line of work; the speaker asserting that even if the 

 only ambition of a young woman be to gain a livelihood, she 

 would still say: "Keep to a Specialty." 



She earnestly advocated, to medical graduates in particular, 

 the importance of continuing their studies for a few years in 

 one line of investigation, offering as a stimulus to such study 

 the prospect of filling some of the chairs in the new medical 

 colleges. 



She stated that there should be, without question, a woman 

 Professor of Anatomy in every medical college where women 

 are students. Women should also be in charge of reformatory 

 schools for girls, and there should be women physicians in all 

 of our city hospitals, insane asylums and poor houses to treat 

 the women in these places. 



The paper closes with a tempting picture of the advantages 

 of studying at any university center, showing how much better 

 are the facilities for work there, and what a constant incentive 

 is derived from the association of bright minds and how the very 

 atmosphere of learning pervading such a place has an educating 

 influence." 



METHOD OF PREPARING PERMANENT SPECIMENS 

 OF STAINED HUMAN BLOOD. 



Dr. V. D. Harris writes as follows : Although at first sight 

 a very simple matter, it is found in practice to be anything but 

 easy to prepare specimens of human blood, so that the corpuscles 

 may retain their shape and may be at the same time well stained. 

 After the trial of a large number of different methods I recom- 



