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ology. He is a remarkable man. He is a graduate of 

 the "university and has acquired his professional knowl- 

 edge of anatomy and pathology by the hardest kind of 

 work within the shadows of his beloved alma mater. 

 The choicest fruit of his ceaseless labor has been a 

 pathologic museum containing thousands of the most in- 

 teresting specimens, which he has prepared and labeled 

 with his own hands. Besides this, he keeps a record of 

 all the findings of the postmortem examinations at the 

 Melbourne Hospital and has also filed away the clinical 

 history of each case. I believe he could walk through 

 the great museum hall and pick out any particular 

 specimen blindfolded; not only this, but he could give 

 the astonished visitor a minute description of them all. 

 He showed and demonstrated to me scores of the rarest 

 and most interesting specimens. He has one of the fin- 

 est collections illustrative of the pathologic anatomy of 

 hydatid, actinomycosis and bone disease. He relies 

 on wood alcohol in the preparation and preservation of 

 the specimens. The specimen jars are covered with 

 heavy tin foil, which can be removed and replaced with 

 the utmost ease, and the tin foil cover properly applied 

 over the mouths of the jars effectually prevents the evap- 

 oration of the liquid, the loss during a year from this 

 source being insignificant. Professor Allen has become 

 satisfied from his immense experience that malignant 

 disease among the aborigines is extremely rare; on the 

 other hand, syphilis is very common. Everything in 

 his museum shows system and order, a beautiful and 

 rich workshop for anyone who seeks information in this 

 branch of medical study and teaching. Professor Allen 

 knows how to get the best work from his students. He 

 has published a little inter-leaved book, "Pathological 

 and Histological Methods of Sections," for the junior 

 students, in which a brief description is given of the 

 mechanical part of the work and the blank pages are 

 filled in by the students with notes and drawings. A 

 similar plan is followed in the bacteriologie laboratory. 



