Calendar: 1848-1849 Page 92

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT to guide himself safelv in the delicate and difficult situations in which by the practice of his profession he will frequently be placed he will require not merely professional knowledge and skill but right principles and feelings and the habits and deportment of gentleman and these are generally acquired or fixed in the three or four important years in which Medical education is embraced when the frame and the character are receiving their permanent stamp of manhood The Professors believe that the Collegiate life and discipline which in our old Universities has survived all the changes of five hundred years and is still employed in the education of the Clergy and of large portion of the gentry of the land is well adapted to secure the attainment of these peculiar qualifications and having this belief it gives them much satisfaction to announce that the additional rooms provided by the liberality of the Council for the residence of Medical Students are nearly com- plete and that they will be ready for occupation before the next Winter Session The Museums connected with the Medical Department of the College have received during the past year many valuable additions and are at present in excellent order complete Catalogue of the Preparations in the Anatomical Museum ami of the large Collection of Diagrams belonging to the Medical Department which was undertaken two or three years ago at the instance of the Medical Professors has been completed this year by our resident Tutor Dr Johnson to whom the Professors are desirous of expressing their thanks for the able manner in which he has performed this laborious task The Medical Department of the College has sustained great loss during the past year in the death of Mr William Masters Curator of the Anatomical and of the Materia Medica Museums Mr William Thomson who came to us with high recommendations which his exertions hitherto have justified has been elected in his place Another important change has taken place in the Medical Department during the past year Mr Simon who for many