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those subjects which were so absolutely necessary, means 
would be adopted to produce the end which he wished for. 
Mr. Charles Hunting said he had read the Charter of tlie 
body corporate carefully over three or four times, and to the 
best of his understanding they had a perfect right to put on 
any test. It stated that the body corporate might alter the 
manner in which the examinations were conducted as they 
chose, and might make any hye-laws provided they were in 
accordance with the laws of the realm. He thought there 
was no law of the realm which declared that they might 
not say to their students, You must read and write.He 
considered that, as far as the preliminary examination went, 
the Council ought to submit their students to a good educa¬ 
tional test before alloAving them to enter the profession. 
Many plans and outlines had been given of an educational 
test by Mr. Greaves and others, but he most decidedly ob¬ 
jected to the teaching schools having any power whatever 
to interfere with the preliminary or any other educational 
test. Of course, he desired that the Council of the College 
should act with courtesy towards, and consult the convenience 
of, the schools ; and if it was convenient to the schools, and 
they could supply a proper number of men to come up at 
Christmas, by all means let them come. There had been a 
suggestion made by the principal of one of the schools, that 
the teachers should be present at the examining board and 
help the examiners to examine on scientific subjects. He 
could understand the oral and written tests, hut he could not 
see how the practical tests could be carried out. AVho were 
to supply the subjects ? Where were the examinations to take 
place ? It would be useless to go to the schools and examine 
the pupils upon a patient whose condition had been explained 
to them for the last fortnight. With regard to the dissec¬ 
tions, were they to he got from the schools ? Although this 
College might follow the footsteps of the College of Surgeons 
to some extent, he did not think they could follow them in 
everything, and he held that it would be much better to 
examine the students in toto than piecemeal. When he was 
at College he found on more than one occasion men who 
studied one subject and that alone, and went in for a prize. 
He, perhaps, studied physiology, and had not the vaguest 
idea of anatomy. He believed that, if the proposal were 
adopted, a man would be thoroughly crammed for the first 
examination, and when he went up for the second examina¬ 
tion, on the principles of medicine, he would not know any¬ 
thing about anatomy. If they wanted to make changes 
(and, doubtless, they were needed), let them he put on gently. 
