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the beginning of the session, 1st of October, until April, by the Demonstrator of Anatomy, in the college. The students are superintended in their dissection, and subjects are provided for them. The fees are six guineas; for demonstration alone, four guineas; for demonstration and an assortment, five guineas.

Students are instructed in surgical operations on the dead body, and have proper subjects provided for them for five guineas.

Towards the end of the session, a course of lectures is given by the Professor of Anatomy and Surgery, and another course on diseases of the eye, by the Demonstrator of Anatomy; terms for each of these courses, one guinea.

A course of lectures on midwifery and diseases of women and children, is given in spring; fee, one guinea.

It is intended to add a course on Toxicology, and Medical Jurisprudence.

At the chemical laboratory, pupils are instructed in operative chemistry; fee, six guineas.

Botanical demonstrations are daily given by the professor's assistant, in the garden, during the season.

Medical officers of the army and navy, and graduates in the school, are permitted to attend the lectures on anatomy and surgery, in the college; but if they purpose to obtain certificates, they are required to pay the usual fee at the commencement of the

course.

The medical library of the late Sir Patrick Dun, is open to all the students of the School.

Students who do not graduate in arts, are admitted, at the end of three years from the date of their matriculation, to an examination before the six professors, on producing to the Board of Trinity College, certificates of attendance on Anatomy, Surgery, Chemistry, Botany, Institutes of Medicine, Practice of Medicine, Materia Medica and Pharmacy, Clinical lectures, and the practice of Sir P. Dun's hospital; to write and publish a thesis in Latin, and perform all

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the academical exercises for the degree of Doctor in Medicine, and then receive a testimonium under the seal of the college, stating their being qualified to practise medicine.

Those students who go through a collegiate course, on producing certificates of their attendance on the professors in the school of physic, the clinical lectures and the hospitals, are, three years after having graduated as Bachelor of Arts, examined before the Regius Professor of Physic, and the professors of Anatomy, and Surgery, Chemistry, and Botany, in Trinity College; and on performing the usual academical exercises they take the degree of Bachelor of Medicine, upon sufficient standing, publishing a thesis, passing a second examination before the University Professors, and performing the necessary acts, the full degree of " Doctor in Medicine" is confirmed; these rank with the degrees of Bachelor, and Doctor of Medicine, obtained in the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.

Students of the above description, if they intend to graduate in the English universities, ought to take the degree of A.M. before that of Bachelor of Medicine in this university.

As qualification, previous to examination for the testimonium, the certificates of the professors in Edinburgh are admitted for any three of the courses required, with the exception of the clinical lectures, which must have been attended in the School of Physic, in Ireland.

It is indispensable that students presenting themselves for examination, shall have dissected regularly, during at least one season, and that they are conversant with morbid anatomy.

Certificates of attendance on the Professors in the School of Physic in Ireland, are received as giving standing in other universities, and as qualifications for medical officers in the army, navy, and East India service; and certificates of attendance on the anatomical and surgical lectures in Trinity College are also admitted in the different colleges of surgeons. The chemical lecture is chiefly supported by fees

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from the senior sophister class, and from those who attend the course of lectures preparatory to obtaining a degree or diploma in medicine.

By the act of the 40th of Geo. III. the Professor is to deliver four lectures in each week, between the first Monday in November, and the end of April in each year, but a much greater number than this is given.

The course embraces all the recent discoveries in this science, and is copiously illustrated by such experiments as are calculated to explain the doctrine of chemistry, and exemplify to the student the best method of research; the laboratory contains a well selected range of apparatus, which is kept in excellent order, and the zeal and intelligence displayed by Dr. Barker, the professor, show how anxious he is for the improvement of the pupils, and also the judgment of the directors in their selection of one so well calculated to advance the cause of science in his department.

Dr. Barker gives two courses in each year, the first of which is a short and general course, intended chiefly for University students. The second is much more detailed, and is delivered to all the students of the School of Physic.

The Botanical lectures are ably conducted by Dr. Allman, who has lately been made professor: he is assisted by Mr. James Townsend Mackay, A.L.S., who is Curator of the College Botanic Garden, near Ball's Bridge, and is allowed to be one of the first practical botanists in Europe.

The present learned Professor gives annually in the college sixteen public lectures, commencing the last week in April, and about fifty lectures in the private course, which is annually given immediately after the public one. In the practical part of the latter course, the professor explains fully the Linnean system; in the public one, he follows more particularly the natural method of Jussieu, as improved by Ventenant and others. He also describes the medicinal properties

a In the room of Dr. W. Allman, who was clected to it in 1809, and who has retired on a pension.

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of such plants as occur in the different natural orders as he proceeds. He also takes care to point out the class and order in the Linnean system, where they are to be found. The number of students that attend the private course, as a branch of their medical studies, averages at present from forty to sixty.

A regular attendance at Botanical lectures is indispensable to obtain a degree in medicine.

Besides the above lectures, Mr. Mackay, the assistant botanist, gives demonstrations annually at the garden, during the period that the professor delivers his lectures in the college, but at a different hour, to allow the student the advantage of attending both.

Excursions are generally made by the Curator with the students once a week, during the course, to examine the botanical productions in the vicinity of Dublin, of which there is a considerable variety, some of which are said to be peculiar to that district.

Natural History.-In the year 1816, as already noticed, the professorship of Natural History was established in the college: this improvement had been long in contemplation, but in that year Dr. Stokes, the senior lay fellow, wishing to give up his Fellowship for the purpose of attending more closely to his medical pursuits, the board knowing this gentleman to be eminently qualified for the situation, requested him to undertake the duties at a liberal salary: to this invitation he consented, and most certainly it would be difficult to find a professor more competent to give instruction in this useful, elegant, and interesting department of scientific knowledge, which indeed, it must be admitted, had not previously been sufficiently cultivated in Ireland; and, in the promotion of his object, Dr. Stokes has been allowed the command of all the specimens in the museum of natural history.

The following regulations, respecting medical degrees, were made in 1839, and revised in 1840 and 1841:

The days of graduation are Shrove Tuesday, and the first Tuesday in July; the medical examinations terminate on the Tuesday of the preceding week;

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candidates having completed their medical education and paid the required fees to the senior Proctor, can procure from the Registrar of the Professors of the School of Physic, a schedule, testifying to the correctness of the details of the attendance on lectures, &c., on producing which, with the Proctor's receipt to the College Registrar, he will issue a liceat ad examinandum.

Medical students may obtain the degree of Bachelor of Medicine in two modes:

1st. Candidates who have graduated in Arts may obtain the degree of Bachelor in Medicine, at any of the ensuing half-yearly periods of graduation, provided the regular medical education and examination shall have been accomplished.

The payment at entrance is £15; the fees for study in arts, during four years, are £7 10s. each half year; and the fees for graduates in arts, £8 17s. 6d.

2nd. Candidates are admissible to the degree of Bachelor of Medicine, without previous graduation in Arts, at the end of five years from the July following the Hilary examination of the first under-graduate year, provided the usual education and examination in arts of the first two years of the under-graduate course shall have been completed, as also the medical education and examination, as in the case of other candidates. The fees for two years' study in arts, besides the usual entrance payment of £15, are £7 10s. each half year.

The graduation fees for the degree of Bachelor of Medicine, are £11 15s. The testimonium of the M.B. degree will contain the following certificate:— "Testamur A.B. sedulam, operam medicinæ navasse et examinationes, coram professoribus feliciter sustinuisse."

The medical education of a Bachelor of Medicine comprises attendance on the following courses of lectures in the School of Physic, established by act of Parliament, provided that one, and not more than three of the courses, which begin in November, be attended during each of four sessions. Three of