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in a medical college. Statuary and stained glass win- 

 dows make one forget one is in a medical college. One 

 imagines he is in a cathedral or a palace. The stainetj 

 glass windows do not immortalize saints, but the men 

 in our profession, whose work has made medicine and 

 surgery what they are to-day. The inner architecture 

 corresponds with the beauty of its external appearance. 

 The lecture rooms and laboratories leave nothing to be 

 desired. What a pleasure it must be to work in such a 

 building ! 



MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY AND MEDICAL SCHOOL. 



The Melbourne University is indebted for its founda- 

 tion to the public enterprise of the late and well-known 

 English statesman, Mr. Hugh Childers, formerly an 

 inspector of schools in the state of Victoria, and to Mr. 

 Latrobe, its first governor. The former introduced a 

 bill into the legislative council for incorporating and 

 endowing the University of Melbourne in 1853. The 

 bill met with little opposition and was passed the same 

 year. The university commenced work with three pro- 

 fessors and 16 students in April, 1855. At the annual 

 examinations of students in 1899. 341 passed. Its pres- 

 ent attendance is from 700 to 800, of which number 

 about 250 are medical students. It receives an annual 

 endowment of $45,000 from the government which, 

 with the gifts, bequests and fees, suffice to meet the 

 current expenses and leave a sufficient residue for mak- 

 ing improvements as needed. The buildings are not 

 so expensive as those of the Sydney University. The 

 whole university plant consists of a group of buildings, 

 each of which is devoted to the department for which 

 it is intended. For instance, the medical school is made 

 up of a number of separate one-story stone or brick 

 buildings, representing as many departments. Mel- 

 bourne Hospital and the Children's Hospital furnish 

 the clinical material. Professor Allen is dean of the 

 medical faculty and professor of anatomy and path- 



