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in May. This regulation to affect all students commencingtheir medical studies after 17th July, 1841, and to be in lieuof attendance on the hospital from 7 st May to the 1st Novem-ber following. The courses commence on the first Mondayin November; no student can be received after the 25thof the same month. The fees for attendance on the clinicallectures are X3 3s. to the professors for each three months’attendance, and (provided the student be of two years’ stand-ing in the university) -P3 3s. to the treasurer of the hospitalfor the first year, with a proportionate sum for any longerperiod. The fee for each of the other courses is ae4 4s. Theexaminations are conducted by the regius professor of physicof the university, the six professors of the School of Physic,and the professor of midwifery to the College of Physicians.No further examination is requisite for the degree of doctorof medicine, which may be taken at the expiration of threeyears from having taken the degree of M.B., provided thecandidate has graduated in arts. The fees for the degree ofdoctor of medicine are £22. The degrees are publicly con-ferred by the vice-chancellor, in the senate or congregationof the university.

THE KING AND QUEEN’S COLLEGE OFPHYSICIANS IN IRELAND.

Professor· of Botany-Dr. Allman.Professor of JJfateria Medica and Pharmacy-Dr. Osborne.Profess01’ qf the Instz:tutes of Medicine-Dr. Ferguson.

QUALIFICATIONS OF CANDIDATES FOR LICENCE.

Candidates must produce evidence of having been engagedin the study of medicine for four years, and of having attendedtwo at least of the required courses in each year. Candi.dates, except those who have taken a medical degree prior tc1840, must produce certificates of attendance on one or morecourses of lectures on the following subjects, each coursebeing of six months’ duration, with the exception of botany

and forensic medicine, which must include at least fifty lec-tm’es:-Anatomy and Physiology, Chemistry, Materia Me-dica and Pharmacy, Botany, Institutes of Medicine, Practiceof Medicine, Principles and Practice of Surgery, Midwifery;and Forensic Medicine. The lectures on anatomy, chemistry;botany, materia medica, institutes of medicine, and practiceof medicine, are required to have been delivered by therespective professors of the school of physic in Dublin, or inan university. The lectures on surgery are required to havebeen delivered on at least three days in the week, during fourmonths, by a professor of surgery in an university or collegeof physicians or surgeons in the United Kingdom, or by thesurgeon of a medico-chirurgical hospital recognised by theCollege. These lectures must not form a part of a course oflectures on anatomy. The lectures on midwifery are requiredto have been delivered by a professor of midwifery in an uni-versity or college of physicians or surgeons in the UnitedKingdom, or by the master of a lying-in-hospital, Dublin.The lectures on medical jurisprudence are required to havebeen delivered by a professor in an university or college ofphysicians or surgeons in the United Kingdom. Certificatesmust also be produced of six months’ attendance on ana-tomical demonstrations and dissections, and of at least twoyears’ hospital practice ; one year in the hospital of theschool of physic in Dublin or Edinburgh, the other inany recognised medico-chirurgical hospital. The certifi-cates must include attendance on the entire practiceof the hospital, and on all the clinical lectures deliveredin the hospital during such attendance. Candidates who havetaken a medical degree in an university will be admitted toexamination upon such degree alone. Every candidatefor licence, except those who have taken a’ medical degreeprior to 1840, is examined on two separate days: on the firstday, on Anatomy and Physiology, Chemistry, Botany, Ma-teria Medica, and Pharmacy; and on the second day, onAcute and Chronic Diseases, Midwifery, and non-Naturals,and on the translating of one or more of the following booksfrom the original Greek-viz., Hippocrates, Aretmus, andGalen. Graduates in medicine are only required to undergothe second day’s examination. The examinations, which arepublic, are conducted in the English language; but everycandidate, except graduates in arts of Oxford, Cambridge, orDublin, is required to translate medical cases from the Eng-lish into the Latin language, before he is admitted to exami-nation as to his professional acquirements. Fee for licence,mThe licence of this College is equivalent to a medical de-

gree, and it confers privileges which a degree does not.

The fellows are chosen from the licentiates of three years’standing; they are required by statute (40 Geo. III., cap. 84,sect. 42) to have taken the degree of M.D. in one of the uni-versities of Dublin, Oxford, or Cambridge; or to have takenthe degree of A.B. in one of these universities, and to havereceived the medical education requisite for obtaining the li-.

cence, for which a degree in medicine is not necessary. Feeto the College, on election to the fellowship, .620, with an ad-ditional stamp duty of JE25.The Act of Parliament provides that these qualifications

may be dispensed with, whenever, at any time, the number offellows is reduced to six.The College has the power of conferring the honorary fel-

lowship on any of its own licentiates, who have not the sta-tutable qualifications; on such of its fellows as resign, or va-cate the fellowship; and on such eminent medical men, notlicentiates, as it may wish to distinguish by its approbation.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF IRELAND.The College grants two diplomas-one, conferring the rank

of fellow, and the other that of licentiate. The diplomagranted to the fellow makes him a member of the corporation,and entitles him to vote at all elections for president, vice-president, and councillors, and also to be elected president,vice-president, or member of council. He is privileged to at-tend all meetings of the college, and if twelve fellows thinkfit, they can require the president to call a meeting of thefellows at large, " to deliberate and consult about the state andgovernment of the college, and to recommend to the councilsuch matters as may seem expedient." The letters testimonialgranted to the licentiate enables him " to exercise and enjoyall rights of practice which are enjoyed by the fellows, freeaccess to the library and museum of the college, and he iseligible to the rank of fellowship, subject to specified regula-tions." Both fellows and licentiates, and also pupils, are liableto " censure, suspension, amotion, or fine, for breach of charter,or by-laws, or for other delinquencies." No person is eligibleas a fellow who 11 shtll, by the judgment of the council, bedeclared to be concerned either directly or indirectly in prac-tising pharmacy;" and if, after he shall have become a fellow,he shall be so concerned, he shall cease to be a fellow; butlicentiates are permitted to practise pharmacy in any way andin any place they think fit. The charter provides " that if itshall at any time hereafter appear, that any licentiate orfellow shall have obtained his diploma by any f2-aztd, falsestatement, or imposition, or that, either before or after obtainingsuch diploma, he has wilfully violated any by-law, rule, or re-gulation of the college, the council may censure him, or ifexpedient, recal and make void his diploma," and expel him.The fee for the diploma of fellow is thirty guineas, and for

that of licentiate, twenty-five guineas, including, in each case,a registry fee of five guineas. Licentiates admitted to thefellowship pay a fee of ten guineas.The candidate for the fellowship must be twenty-five years

of age, and if not a graduate in arts of some university, hemust be prepared to answer a classical examination, which isgenerally confined to the principal books read for entranceinto Dublin University. He must have been six years engagedin professional study, three of which must have been in Dublin,and he must have been a house-surgeon or dresser in an hos-pital. He is required to attend lectures on anatomy, andphysiology, and surgery, and dissections, during three seasons;chemistry during two; and practice of medicine, materiamedica, and midwifery, medical jurisprudence, comparativeanatomy, natural philosophy, and botany, for one course each.His hospital attendance must be three years at least.Bachelors of arts, after five years’ study, are admitted to exa-mination on compliance with the above regulations; and licen-tiates of the college, of ten years’ standing, are also admitted,although they may not have been educated in strict conformitywith them.The candidate for letters testimonial is required to become

a registered pupil, and to pass a classical examination. He isalso required to prove that he has studied three years in themetropolitan schools, and a fourth year either there or some-where else, where he might have obtained professional infor-mation, such as provincial institutions. His hospital attend-ance is by the by-law declared to be three years, "whereclinical instruction is given," and all the Dublin hospitals are

recognised. The credit given for attendance on provincialhospitals has not been defined; but it appears to be expectedthat while the pupil is in attendance on lectures in Dublin, heshall also attend an hospital, no matter what his hospitalattendance may have been before. Candidates for letters