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higher and professional education. It is a great mis- 

 take for any young Australian man or woman to leave 

 their native soil in search of better opportunities to 

 qualify themselves for any position in life, as the choic- 

 est and best lies at their very door. An Oxford or 

 Cambridge degree will be of no more use to a profes- 

 sional man or woman in Australia or anywhere else than 

 a degree from any of the three universities of the island 

 continent, as the requirements for graduation of the 

 latter are equally, if not more, stringent than of the 

 former. This southwestern part of the world is fully 

 aware of what is going on in the way of scientific prog- 

 ress and has already to some extent contributed its share 

 to the common fund of knowledge, and is now in a po- 

 sition to become a more liberal contributor. We as 

 physicians are more especially interested in the advan- 

 tages offered by the Australian universities for its medi- 

 cal students. It is in this branch of university educa- 

 tion that the greatest changes in the methods of teach- 

 ing have been witnessed during the last quarter of a 

 century. In writing this communication I have made 

 liberal use of two addresses delivered by Prof. T. P. A. 

 Stuart, the distinguished physiologist of the Sydney 

 University ("A Eeview of University Life in Australia, 

 Etc.," and "The Majority of the Medical School," the 

 latter on the occasion of the University of Sydney cele- 

 brations), and the last calendars of the three univer- 

 sities. The three Australian universities are located at 

 Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide, and were founded in 

 the order in which these names appear. Each university 

 has its own medical department. Fortunately for the 

 new country and its medical profession, private medical 

 schools are out of the question. The requirements for 

 entrance and graduation are about the same in all of the 

 three schools and I quote here from the last catalogue 

 of the University of Adelaide : 



"No person shall be permitted to commence the medi- 

 cal course until he shall have completed his sixteenth 



