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unconnected with hospitals, there are others in which 

 hospital attendance is necessary. Among these are 

 not only the usual clinical instruction in medical and 

 surgical wards, but also such subjects as Pathological 

 Anatomy. This view I had occasion to enforce when 

 in July, 1901, I opened the new Pathological Institute 

 of the London Hospital, now a school of the 

 University, a department certainly equalled by few, 

 either at home or abroad. The pathological anato- 

 mist, unlike the chemist, the physicist, or even the 

 physiologist and the pure anatomist, stands in the 

 closest possible relation to hospital practice. It is to 

 the hospital that he has to look for his material of 

 study, and it is upon his dictum as to the cause of 

 death, and therefore as to the treatment or possible 

 cure of the disease, that the physician or surgeon has 

 often to rely, so that again the necessity for the close 

 connection of the hospital with this particular depart- 

 ment of medical study becomes apparent. There will 

 therefore still be need for laboratories and practical 

 teaching in the London schools of medicine in direct 

 contact with the hospital itself, even if the subjects of 

 the earlier years' study be removed to central in- 

 stitutes. 



I have said that the period of my Vice- Chancellor- 

 ship was one of some difficulty ; this arose partly from 

 the change of the Constitution and the appointment 

 of an entirely new Governing Body, and a complete 

 alteration in the personnel of the University officials, 

 and partly to the fact that new buildings had to be 

 found for carrying on the business of the enlarged 

 University those which we had hitherto inhabited in 

 Burlington Gardens being altogether insufficient for 

 the purpose. The Government then came forward 

 with a new offer, that a portion of the buildings of the 



