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ordinary resident appointments continuing clinicalwork or pursuing laboratory or other research. Thesalaries range from JE250 up to 9900 a year, residentquarters being provided only for the chief assistantto the Obstetric Unit. The total number of suchassistantships varies from time to time, being generallyabout 12, and an aggregate sum of about 25000annually is available for their salaries.

Scholarships and Prizes (those in connexion withUniversity College have already been enumerated).-At this School the first two Scholarships (a) and (b)entitle the holder to a complete course at UniversityCollege and University College Hospital Medicalschool; the second two (c) and (d) entitle to a finalcourse at the medical school. The money value andsubjects of examination are as follows : (a) EntranceScholarship, Bucknill, 60 guineas, Chemistry, Physics,Botany, and Zoology ; (b) Epsom Free MedicalScholarship, subjects of Preliminary Scientific Exami-nation and Nomination by Epsom College ; (c) and(d) two Goldsmid Entrance Scholarships entitlingthe holder to the Final Course of Medical Study,two of the following subjects : Anatomy, Physiology,General Pathology, Biochemistry ; (e) GoldsmidEntrance Exhibition, entitling the holder to a reduc-tion by B80 in the fees due for the full course of FinalMedical Studies, two of the following subjects:Anatomy, Physiology, General Pathology, Bio-chemistry ; (f) Filliter Entrance Scholarship, entitlingthe holder to a reduction by ;652 10s. in the fees duefor the full course of Final Medical Studies. Studentsneed take Pathology alone if they desire to enter forthe Filliter Entrance Scholarship only ; (g) FerriereScholarship, value :E25 ; (h) Graham Scholarship inPathology, 2300 per annum for two years, awardedby the Senate of the University of London ; (i)Atkinson Morley Scholarship, tenable for three years,jM:5 per annum, Surgery ; (j) Atchison Scholarship,tenable for two years, 355 per annum, General Pro-ficiency in Medical Studies; (7c) Magrath ClinicalScholarship, about B160, Clinical Cases ; (l) PercivalAlleyn Scholarship, about B300, awarded everythree years, Surgery ; (m) Filliter Exhibition, :630,Pathology ; (n) Erichsen Prize, jB21, PracticalSurgery ; (o) two Senior and two Junior FellowesClinical Medals for Clinical Medicine ; (p) two ListonGold Medals for Clinical Surgery ; (q) AlexanderBruce Gold Medal for Pathology and Surgery ;(r) Tuke Silver and Bronze Medals for Pathology ;(s) Radcliffe Crocker Travelling Scholarship forDermatology ; and (t) Leslie Pearce Gould TravellingScholarship for Surgery. Bilton Pollard Fellowshipof the annual value of B650 tenable for a normalmaximum of three years. A limited number ofBursaries are available from the Atchison Fund,awarded at the discretion of the Dean, to enablestudents whose means do not allow to take ResidentPosts. The Arthur Pollard Loan Fund for thepurpose of assisting necessitous students either bythe payment of their tuition or examination feesor as a grant towards their maintenance.The Museum of Pathological Anatomy is open for

study daily. The Anatomical Museum of the Univer-sity of London, University College, is open to allstudents of University College Hospital and MedicalSchool on the recommendation of the school com-mittee. The library, open daily to every student of theSchool, contains about 30,000 medical works, includingall the current text-books and works of reference.The Medical Society exists for the dual purpose

(1) of promoting the study of medical and surgicalscience, and (2) of promoting social intercourse amongits members. All male students of the medical schoolare required to become members, and meetings areheld once a fortnight for appropriate discussionconnected with the study of medicine. The Societyincludes various athletic clubs and superintends thegymnasium and squash racquet courts in the medicalschool, and the athletic ground at Perivale.

In Gower-street there is a well-equipped residentialhostel solely for the use of the medical students.

Westminster HospitalThe present hospital contains 241 beds, and has

attached to it a Radium Clinic with 22 beds, elabo-rately equipped for all forms of radium therapy andresearch. In the new Westminster Hospital whichis at present being constructed there will be 400 bedswith separate departments for diseases of the eye, skin,teeth, ear, nose and throat, for orthopaedic practice,for diseases of women, for diseases of children, forradiology, for anaesthetics, for venereal disease, andfor massage, electrical, and light treatment. Theanatomical, pathological, and materia medica museumsare open to all students of the school. There is alsobeing built a new medical school adjacent to the newhospital in Horseferry-road, Westminster ; this willbe ready for occupation in January, 1938, and willcontain the very latest developments in medicalteaching accommodation.The entire teaching of the hospital is devoted to

the subjects of the Final Examinations. Arrange-ments are made for the tuition required forPreliminary and Intermediate subjects.

Paid appointments as medical, surgical, andobstetric registrars, casualty officers, house physicianshouse surgeons, and anaesthetist are available forstudents when they have passed their examinations.There are excellent opportunities for research work

in the recently endowed John Burford CarlillLaboratories. Grants to assist research workersare made annually from the John Burford Carlill-Endowment.

Scholarships and Prizes.-The following EntranceScholarships are offered for competition : WinterSession : Two Scholarships in Anatomy and Physio-logy, B75 each. Summer Session : Two Scholarshipsin Anatomy and Physiology, J375 each. Four Scholar-ships in Chemistry, Physics, and English Essay,j675 each. During the period of study the followingprizes may be competed for : Sturges Prize in ClinicalMedicine, Reports on Cases; Chadwick ClinicalSurgery Prize, Reports on Cases ; Chadwick Prizein books or instruments-Medicine and Surgery,including Pathology and Applied Anatomy andPhysiology ; Frederic Bird Medal and Prize, opento fourth-year students, medal and books or instru-ments-Midwifery, Diseases of Women, Medicine,Pathology, Forensic Medicine and Bacteriology, andPublic Health and Toxicology ; Abrahams Prize inClinical Pathology, a paper and tests in practicalwork; Hanbury Prize in Diseases of Children ;Alfred Hughes Memorial Prize, open to second-yearstudents, books or instruments—Anatomy ; HuxleyMemorial Prize, open to second-year students-Phy-siology ; Carter Gold Medal and Prize for Botany,open to students of not more than three years’ attend-ance, gold medal and books; Jelf Medal awardedto third-year students; Daniell Scholarship, B40,Chemistry ; Rabbeth Scholarships open to first-yearstudents; Class Examinations in the PreliminaryScientific Course. Inchley Prize in Pharmacology, opento students who within two years of passing the firstexamination for medical degrees have completed thecourse in Pharmacology. Hare Prize in Zoology,open to first-year students.The annual fee includes membership of the Sports

Union Club with its various branches-i.e., football,cricket, tennis, hockey, boxing, fencing, swimming,sailing, and Guthrie Society. The athletic groundsare situated in Tooting and are reached in 20 minutesfrom the hospital.

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London (Royal Free Hospital) School ofMedicine for WomenThe Royal Free Hospital contains 327 beds. The

hospital also has large casualty and out-patientdepartments. Maternity districts are attached to theobstetric unit operating in the Gray’s Inn-road andEssex-road areas. Students in midwifery and gynaeco-logy attend the in- and out-patient practice of the

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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital. They alsoattend the practice of the Royal Cancer Hospital,Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond-street,National Hospital, Queen-square, South LondonHospital, and Central London Ophthalmic Hospital.Students after qualification can hold posts of housephysicians, house surgeons, obstetric assistants, clinicalassistants, assistant anaesthetist and pathologist, andmedical, gynaecological, and surgical registrars at theRoyal Free Hospital; and the post of demonstratorsin all the departments at the medical school.A clinical unit in obstetrics controls 68 beds. The

pathological unit has been extended and spaciousnew quarters are now available.

Courses are arranged for the primary fellowshipexamination of the Royal College of Surgeons ofEngland.The school buildings have been entirely rebuilt in

recent years, and there are spacious, well-equippedlaboratories, which afford every facility for efficiencyof teaching and practical work in all departments.Students’ chambers are provided in the neighbour-hood of the school and the warden can be consultedon the subject.

Scholarships and Prizes.-Among the larger of theseawards are the following : (a) Isabel Thorne andA. M. Bird Scholarships of 230 a year for six years ;(b) St. Dunstan’s Medical Exhibition, 260 a year forthree or five years ; (c) Mrs. George M. Smith Scholar-ship, 250 a year for three or five years ; (d) BostockScholarship, j690 a year for five years ; (e) MabelSharman-Crawford Scholarship, JB20 a year forfour years ; (f) Sir Owen Roberts Scholarship, 275 ayear for four years, alternating with the MacIntyreEvans Scholarship of j675 a year for four years ;(g) Fanny Butler Scholarship, £16 a year for four years ;(h) Sarah Holborn Scholarship, jB20 a year for threeor five years ; (i) Dr. Margaret Todd Scholarship,237 a year for four years ; (j) Lieutenant EdmundLewis and Lieutenant Alan Lewis Memorial Scholar-ship, 225 a year for four years ; (k) Alfred LangtonScholarships, 235 a year for two years ; (l) FloraMurray Bursary, awarded every year to a fifth-yearstudent, £50 ; (m) A. M. Bird Clinical Scholarship,B30 a year for three years ; (n) School Jubilee Bur-sary, £50 a year for three years ; (o) John ByronBursary, 220 for two years ; (p) Beilby Bursary of55 for one year ; (q) Helen Prideaux Prize and JuliaAnn H. Cock Prize, to be spent in assisting the newlyqualified holder to further study ; J660 each ; (r) A. M.Bird Post-graduate Scholarship in Pathology, J6200for one year ; (s) Mabel Webb and A. M. Bird ResearchScholarship, JB200 for one year ; (t) Dr. Edith PecheyPhipson Post-graduate Scholarship of the value of.8100, open to all medical women, preferably comingfrom India or going to work in India. The DorothyChick Gift, £14, and other prizes value £84 are

awarded annually. The Students’ Union arrangesthe social, athletic, and other clubs and societies.

Inquiries may be addressed to and full particularsobtained from the Deans of the respective medicalschools.

BRITISH POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL

The school was opened by His late Majesty KingGeorge V. on May 13th, 1935. With it is associatedthe London County Council hospital, generally knownas the Hammersmith Hospital, which is situatedin Ducane-road, W.12. Originally a much largerinstitution was contemplated and Parliament and theL.C.C. had each voted j3250,000 for its building andequipment. Unfortunately the financial crisis in 1931necessitated modification of the plans and a reductionin the amount of the grant by these two bodies.A sum of nearly £200,000 has been spent on thebuilding and equipment of the school, and improve-ments in the hospital to meet the requirements of ateaching hospital.

The school is situated in the grounds of the Hammer-smith Hospital at Ducane-road. These grounds cover14 acres and provide ample room for further building.Ducane-road runs parallel to Western-avenue, to thesouth of a large area of open ground known asWormwood Scrubs, which can never be built over.On the west lies the prison, and the extensive ploton the east belonging to St. Clement Danes GrammarSchool will also remain open. During the last yearadditional laboratories and accommodation forprofessors have been provided.The Board of Governors of the Postgraduate

School, as prescribed in its Charter, is made up ofrepresentatives of various interested bodies, and atpresent consists of 19 members under the chairman-ship of Sir John Caulcutt. These are nominated bythe Secretaries of State for Dominion Affairs, India,and the Colonies, the Ministry of Health, the LondonCounty Council, the University of London, the EnglishRoyal Colleges, the Society of Apothecaries ofLondon, the Royal Society of Medicine, and theBritish Medical Association ; five additionalGovernors are coopted.The school has been recognised as a school of the

University of London, and all appointments ofprofessors and readers are made by that body. Itis open equally to men and women.The school provides facilities for: (1) students

from the Empire and abroad who desire post-graduatework in medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology,pathology, and radiology ; (2) newly qualified studentswho are preparing for higher examinations or special-ising in one of the above branches ; (3) researchstudents who are given facilities for research ; (4)short refresher courses are provided for general prac-titioners, but more especially for those insurancepractitioners receiving assistance from the Ministryof Health.The new block, in which is housed the medical

school, consists of three floors around a central court-yard. On the ground floor is the clinical theatre,with seating room for 100 students, directly abuttingon the main east-west corridor of the hospital, with aroom for a cinema operator on the one side andexamination rooms for patients on the other. On thenorth side of this floor is a very complete morbidhistology department. On the first floor are thelibrary and museum, as well as a second lecturetheatre which lies over and duplicates the clinicaltheatre below. On the third floor is thebacteriological department.The work of the school is divided into five depart-

ments : medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynsecology,pathology, and radiology. Each is in charge of adirector. With the exception of radiology, thedirectors are professors of the University of Londonand appointed by the University. They are assistedby readers and a varying number of assistants.These are all whole-time members of the staff andare not engaged in private practice. There is also avisiting staff who either take charge of wards or givespecial courses of lectures on subjects to which theyhave given special attention.The refresher courses are held at regular intervals

and not less than six courses are held per annum.The subjects dealt with in these courses are selectedmainly from subjects mentioned in the B.M.A.memorandum and those which have been found fromexperience to be of value to the general practitioner.Lecturers taking part in these courses include notonly the school staff, but selected lecturers from otherteaching schools, and for special subjects, visits arearranged to the special hospitals in London.

Apart from the special courses, graduates whohave the time available join the school for " hospitalpractice and tuition." Such students attend from10 A.M. to 4 P.M. Clinics are held daily. Studentshave every opportunity of examining and studyingcases under expert guidance, and of receiving tuitionthereon. They also attend the regular conferencesbetween the different departments and the radio-