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order, and more practical through the museum, the dissect¬ 
ing-room, and the infirmary? Could you not, by the means 
and appliances at our disposal, carry out all you want now, 
or are ever likely to require? could you not add to the 
museum and the library as you felt disposed, or as necessity 
demanded? I answer, yes. 
Having now very briefly shown what things you chiefly 
need, and the facilities we possess of supplying these, I ask, 
in the next place, what this College wants, standing here in 
St. Pancras, to render it permanent, to increase its lists of 
subscribers, and fill its stables with patients, to make it more 
popular, both as an Institution and a school of science and 
practice ? Why, it wants a central, or a west-end branch; 
a reception-room, if I may so speak, for patients there , for 
removal to its hospital here. Those sections of the com¬ 
munity to whom we chiefly look for support are, from the 
growth of this mighty Babylon, yearly going further from 
us, and we must follow them, for they will not return to us. 
Well, then, let the Governors early secure convenient pre¬ 
mises in a fitting site, large enough for all present and all 
future wants ; and let them at once set about making these 
premises convenient for your purposes as well as for their own. 
As a speculation in a money point of view, I would pledge 
myself to its success on our part. But buildings must ulti¬ 
mately be raised, and you must take your share in this ;— 
remember it is to be a real amalgamation —no half union of 
the head to the body, or the body to the head,—your yearly 
income must be invested in Trustees, to be used for the especial 
purpose of erecting with us a new College. Now, paradoxical 
as it may appear, in order to augment your funds ultimately , 
I would at once decrease the Examination Fee, and thus 
remove a great obstacle to the entrance of all the students 
into the profession. 
If all this were set about in earnest, and a fair prospect 
existed of its being accomplished, do you not think that 
every right-minded man in the profession, 'whose means 
allowed, would subscribe annually according to these, to 
effect so great a good ? I am not much given to “ castle¬ 
building,” as those know who know 1 me best; but “looming 
in the future,” I see rising before my mind, from a union such 
as this, a stately edifice, with its capacious reception hall, its 
secretary’s office, consulting-room, council-chamber, museum, 
library, lecture-theatre, laboratory, dissecting-room, and infir¬ 
mary, 'which is at once the pride of Britain, an ornament to 
this metropolis, and the assurance of our success. I look 
again, and see that one thing is not there, wdiat is it? Why, 
Vulcan’s forge ! I hear a voice exclaim, “ whose hoary locks 
