124 THE TUTORIAL SYSTEM. 



making the structural or histological part of his lectures 

 equally complete. This he accomplished not merely 

 by an exposition in words, or by the aid of diagrams of 

 the minute anatomy of the tissues, but by demonstrating 

 the structures or tissues under the microscope — the only 

 true, nay essential mode. 



His partiality for the " Tutorial System " in full 

 force in the English Universities, and viewed by him 

 as an important adjunct to the professor's teachings, 

 made him solicitous to try a similar mode of preparing 

 his pupils for the higher studies of anatomy. By this 

 system of instruction he proposed (1.) To afford a 

 more favourable opportunity of seeing and examining 

 the structures exhibited and described in the public 

 lectures on anatomy ; (2.) To facilitate the attainment 

 of more precise information than can usually be pro- 

 cured from a lecture ; and (3.) To assist the student 

 in keeping up with the public lectures, so that he may 

 not fall behind the progress of the course. His com- 

 plete course consisted of — 1st, His lectures on anatomy, 

 in which the structure of the body was systematically 

 described ; 2d, Anatomical demonstrations by his chief 

 assistant, in which the body was demonstrated topo- 

 graphically, and from the surface inwards; and od, 

 Practical anatomy under the superintendence of the 

 professor and his demonstrators. 



It took him five years to organise his plans. His 

 system of teaching, when completed, came to be looked 

 upon as the best that ever regulated the anatomical de- 

 partment of any British university or medical school. 



