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England and the older ones in Scotland, the medical 

 teaching of science up to, but not including clinical 

 and hospital training at, the various medical schools 

 attached to the London hospitals must be brought to 

 a focus for the first three anni medici, so that the 

 scientific subjects may be taught more effectively than 

 is possible under the present conditions. In this 

 connection I may quote a letter which I wrote to 

 Mr. Balfour : 



July \*jth t 1898. 

 DEAR MR. BALFOUR, 



May I express the keen satisfaction I felt on reading the 

 report of your excellent speech at Guy's Hospital on Research 

 in Medicine? Your remarks are exceedingly well-timed 

 and will be of great service to the cause of medical progress, 

 in which I, for one, am deeply interested. Lord Lister and 

 I are doing what in us lies to help the good cause in es- 

 tablishing the "Jenner Institute of Preventive Medicine," 

 which bids fair to do excellent work in medical research. 

 Another matter about which much interest is felt in medical 

 and scientific circles is the University of London Bill now 

 just emerging from Grand Committee. In my opinion no 

 measure of equal importance for the furtherance of medical 

 research has ever been brought forward, and I most fervently 

 hope that your great interest in this matter may ensure the 

 Bill passing into law this Session. It would be a blow from 

 which the University might never recover should the Bill, 

 after all our efforts, fail to pass. The Opposition, though 

 peristent, is feeble and represents neither scientific nor 

 medical nor University opinion, which is unanimously and 

 strongly in favour of the measure, as being the first and 

 the necessary step towards raising the character of the 

 highest Education in the Metropolis. 



I am, Yours most truly, 



HENRY E. ROSCOE. 



In connection with this proposal for the re- 

 organisation of medical education in London, it is clear 

 that whilst the preliminary and intermediate courses 

 of study may properly be carried on at institutes 



