Calendar: 1849-1850 Page 100

9S MEDICAL DEPARTMENT the svstem of teaching here should be attributed more to the defects of the Professors themselves than to the absence of any of those material facilities which are essential to the well-being of great teaching establishment The Museum of Materia Medica remains in the same ex- cellent condition in which it has been for many years and continues to afford great facilities to the Students The col- lections of Natural History Comparative Anatomy and of healthy and morbid structures are rapidly increasing Already the rooms for their reception are inconveniently over-crowded and at no very distant date it is to be hoped that additional accommodation may be afforded so that justice may be done to the riches of the College in these various departments In acknowledging the liberality of the Council towards the Medical Department am desired by my colleagues to refer especially to the changes recently effected in the Anatomical Rooms large sum has been expended on this portion of the College buildings and we are desirous of expressing our conviction that it has been well and judiciously bestowed We have also good reason to believe that the Pupils are satisfied that the arrangements for their accommodation in this important department of study are not surpassed in any similar establishment must now refer to one of the striking characteristics of King's College -the Collegiate system It 18 well known that this College was the first of the metropolitan schools to introduce this system and it has been found to answer so well that others are now following the example The expe- rinient was first made on comparatively small scale and the success was so complete as to induce the Council to provide rooms for much larger number of Students These additional rooms have been occupied throughout the winter and the system is found to work as well on the increased scale as it did at first This system is as yet so novel that it has not hitherto attracted all the attention it deserves Heretofore the Student of Medicine has been less fortunate than those in other learned professions -he has been thrown upon his own