The Trustees are also contemplating the erection, in the future, of a new Medical Hall, Anatomical Building and auxiliary buildings, which will adjoin the new laboratory about to be erected, and which will form one of the most extensive systems of buildings devoted exclusively to the teaching of medicine, in Europe or America.

The new Medical Laboratory Building, which will be erected at once, will be quadrangular in shape, and will be located on the south. side of Hamilton Walk, between Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh streets. The building will be two stories in height above a high basement, and measures 340 feet front by nearly 200 feet in depth. The long front faces north, securing a maximum amount of the best light for laboratory purposes. All along the front are arranged small rooms for research, rooms for professors and their assistants, a library, etc. these open into a private corridor, so that men employed in these rooms may pursue their work without interruption from students passing through the main halls.

Perfect lighting of all the laboratories has been obtained, the courts being large enough, with the low front building, to furnish good north light to the Laboratory of Pharmacy and Pharmacodynamics on the first floor, and to the large laboratories on the second floor devoted to Pathology, where microscopic work is done, the north front of these rooms facing on the courtyard being made almost wholly of glass and extending higher than the front, so that steady north light will be thrown to the back of the room.

The first floor of the new laboratories will be devoted to physiology and pharmacodynamics. The portion assigned to the former consists of one large laboratory for practical instruction, one for general research work, twenty rooms devoted to sub-section teaching, research work, rooms for professors, etc. The section which will be devoted to pharmacodynamics consists of one large laboratory for practical pharmacodynamics, a laboratory for teaching practical pharmacy, 44 feet by 142 feet; another for general pharmacodynamics, 44 feet by 65 feet; besides a museum and ten rooms for original research work, etc. The rooms in the basement of the building will be used for demonstrative work.

The second floor will be devoted exclusively to pathology. An examination of the commodious plans will disclose the purpose of the pathological laboratory. After providing for lectures upon general topics in pathology, the chief provision is for laboratory instruction. The entire north front of the building is devoted to laboratories for advanced students in pathology and pathological bacteriology, and to the special research and assistants' rooms. Each of the advanced laboratories measures 31 feet by 44 feet. The east wing accommodates the laboratory of experimental pathology, while the west wing is occupied by the museum of pathological specimens. This latter, which measures 44 feet by 65 feet, adjoins the demonstration hall of morbid anatomy, which hall communicates with the general pathological-histological laboratory. The last laboratory, the front of which is to consist almost entirely of glass, is located in a section of the building looking north into a spacious court. This room, 37 feet

by 100 feet, will seat one hundred students, and will be devoted entirely to microscopical work, for which, on account of the excellent lighting, it will be admirably adapted. In order to combine in one. harmonious whole the study of the microscopical features of diseased organs and the gross alterations in them, the pathological-histological laboratory, the laboratory of morbid or gross pathological anatomy, and the museum of pathology are made closely communicating and freely accessible one from the other. Another section of the building, of equal size with the first, and also looking north into the court, is subdivided into three smaller laboratories for the instruction in comparative (pathology of animal diseases), neurological (pathology of nervous diseases), and surgical pathology. The same method of lighting, with enormous glass windows, is to be carried out in this group of laboratories. Finally, the west wing of the building will also provide for photographic and microphotographic outfits. The laboratory is designed on such a liberal scale that ample space is afforded for expansion. The capacity of the laboratories, the number of research rooms, and the provision for securing abundant light at all seasons, mark it as modern beyond competition.

Besides the numerous laboratories, research rooms, etc., there are four lecture rooms in the building. The two marked "Demonstration Rooms" on the plan, each seat 185 students. These lecture rooms communicate with two preparation rooms each. At the rear of the building there are two large lecture rooms, each seating 400 students. To avoid confusion between lectures, the corridors and stairways are so arranged that one class enters the large lecture room from one side as the other class leaves it from the opposite side. Students enter these rooms from a landing at the main stair midway between the first and second floors. The floor of the lecture room is on a level with the basement, and the lecturer will enter directly from the basement level, and all specimens needed to illustrate the lectures will be brought through this entrance, thus saving the crossing of the halls through which classes move.

The most modern apparatus will be employed in lighting, heating and ventilating the building.

While the new Laboratory Building about to be erected will be unexcelled, it nevertheless is only one of the group of buildings for the teaching of medical science, the construction of which is contemplated by the Trustees of the University. These, with the present large medical hall, laboratories and hospitals, will form one of the most complete and largest groups of buildings in existence, devoted exclusively to the teaching of medicine. The architectural construction of the entire group will correspond with that of the dormitories of the University, the same architects having been engaged to design the new Medical Laboratories.

FOREIGN NOTES.

ENGLISH PREPARATORY SCHOOLS.

The English Board of Education has just issued a special report on "Preparatory Schools for Boys: Their Place in English Secondary Education." The title implies at once that these preparatories are a part of secondary education which is thus marked off from the domain of the "public elementary schools."

The distinction is emphasized in the introduction to the volume, which sketches the history of the first of the preparatory schools. It was started in 1837 by private effort, and is taken by the author of the introduction as a type of schools that have become an "important factor in national life." The founder of this school, Lieutenant Malden, numbered among his firm supporters Dr. Arnold, of Rugby, and in early years the boys of this preparatory passed on to Rugby. The school belonged, in fact, to that reform movement which will be forever associated with Arnold's name.

His action was directed to the great endowed, or so called "public schools," in which the élite men of the nation received their training, and of which Arnold said, emphasizing the words of another: "I am afraid the fact is indeed indisputable. Public schools are the very seats and nurseries of vice." He determined to make Rugby a type of what he believed such schools should be, and the stress of his efforts, as is well known, was upon the things that make for moral character. So marked was this bias that he has ever been charged with sacrificing the intellectual side in his zeal for the moral. The founder of the first preparatory worked sympathetically in the same lines.

Before the preparatories existed a boy of the better classes went directly from the nursery governess to the large public school, where he was lost in a crowd of five or six hundred other boys. Under the most favorable circumstances the transition was too abrupt. How fully this was realized is shown by the success and rapid increase of the preparatories. The report estimates their number at four hundred, all established within fifty years.

A distinguishing mark of the English secondary schools is the great number of valuable scholarships which they offer to competition, and which are naturally sought with eagerness. These have the effect of determining the curriculum of the preparatory schools, while the certainty that boys trained in the preparatories stand a better chance to secure the coveted prizes increases their patronage. Thus the scholar