the Lying-in Hospital, February 2nd, 1847. She has had three children. Her last labour, which was eighteen months ago, was severe, after which she suffered from prolapsus uteri. She was a patient of the Lying-in Hospital last summer, and was then suffering from prolapsus uteri and general debility. She states, that she menstruated freely the last week in September, (1846,) and very slightly so the first day in October. From the first week in October she thought that she was pregnant. Her appetite became unusually great, which was one of the earliest symptoms in her former pregnancies. She had longings, sickness, &c. Her bosom, which was very small before this time, increased in size, became firmer, and was at times painful. On January 2nd, after washing her house, the uterus was prolapsed as usual, and on pushing it up she felt as if she had pushed up a lump of ice. The day was very cold. She felt unwell the rest of the day, and cold and shivering. On Sunday, January 3rd, about three o'clock, a.m., she had a severe rigor, followed by strong bearing-down pains, as if she were in labour, but the uterus did not come down, nor has it been prolapsed since. She had frequent and painful desire to make water, but was not able to pass any till night, nearly twenty hours, and then but a very small quantity, and after she had had her bowels fomented. She continued much the same the following day, (Monday,) and passed only a few drops at a time. On Tuesday a surgeon was called in, who passed the catheter, and relieved her. It was not passed again till Saturday, after an interval of three days; during the whole of this time she was in great agony, and not able to make water. A small quantity "dribbled from her" at times after the fomentation. She says her belly was as large as a man's hal, and shined like a looking-glass. She continued about the same till February 2nd, suffering most severely from straining and bearing-down pain in the back, belly, and hips; she was not able to pass her water the whole time, and frequently went two and three days without having it drawn off. The surgeon who attended her said that she was suffering from a tumour, and that nothing could be done for her. On Tuesday, February 2nd, there was a large discharge of pus, after which she was able to pass a little water. When the first discharge of matter took place, she thought it was water, and exclaimed to her husband, "Oh! how very easy my water is coming." She now complains of frequent pain and constant uneasiness; weight in the pelvis, and a disposition to bear down. She has frequent sickness; vomiting; a furred tongue; pulse 100, and feeble; bowels confined, swollen, and distended with flatus; the abdomen is slightly tym. panitic. She passes her water very frequently, but only in small quantities, and mixed with matter. There is no distinct abdominal tumour, but slight enlargement to be felt behind the pubes; pressure in that situation gives pain; the breasts are full and glandular, areola in each well marked, sebaceous follicles enlarged, and the surface of each breast traversed by numerous distended veins. Examination per vaginam :The vagina is occupied by a large globular-shaped tumour. The vagina, posteriorly, and on either side, terminates in a cul de sac; the os uteri cannot be felt. On passing the finger anteriorly, it passes between the pubes and the fore part of the tumour readily to some distance, but barely and with difficulty touched the os uteri, which was situated above the pubes, and pressing against the bladder. The opinion given was that she was pregnant, and suffering from retroversio uteri. Ordered to have the catheter passed three times a day, and to observe the recumbent position constantly. To take ten grains of Dover's powder every night. R. Magn. Sulph., dr. vi.; Infas. Rosæ, oz. viii. M. Sum. oz. iss., ter die. Feb. 6th. About the same; she is relieved by the catheter; the secretion of urine is rather scanty; a quantity of pus follows the flow of urine every time the catheter is passed. 9th. She is not quite so well; the catheter has not been so regularly used; she has frequent sickness, and frequent attacks of pain about the bladder and in the back; bowels have been relaxed; pulse feeble; her general aspect rather worse. Examination per vaginam: The uterus is still in the same position; on pressure it feels doughy, and is painful, particularly towards the anterior part. Examination per rectum:-The fundus of the uterus presses considerably in that direction; after passing the catheter, I tried by pressure, directed to the fundus uteri, to rectify the position of the uterus, but could not succeed; I then placed the woman upon her elbows and knees, passed the finger of the right hand to the os uteri, and whilst making an effort to draw that down, I endeavoured, with the finger of the left hand passed into the rectum, to press up the fundus, but this attempt also failed; and as it gave her great pain, I did not think it right to try it again. The uterus appeared moveable, but I could not rectify its position without introducing my hand into the vagina, and therefore thought it better to wait a few days in hopes that she might quicken, and the uterus right itself. She was ordered an effervescing mixture, with carbonate of ammonia and lemon juice, and an opiate at night. The use of the catheter to be continued. 10th. She vomited last night after her pills,and passed a bad night; suffered much pain. The catheter was passed, and half-a-pint of arine drawn off, which was followed by a quantity of pus-like stuff. She has a constant vaginal discharge. Each time the catheter is passed, the latter portion of the urine drawn off, which is mixed with pus, is also accompanied with a mortarlike deposit. Pulse feeble. Ordered prussic acid mixture and morphia at night. 11th. The poor woman, continuing very ill, and being badly attended to at home, was this day admitted into the hospital. The fatigue of riding to the hospital, although the distance was short, very much overpowered her, and she does not appear so well. She has not been sick since taking the last medicine. 12th. Vespere. She is better, much easier; pulse 100; no return of vomiting; there is less tenderness about the epigastrium; she complains of headache, and attributes it to the pill she took last night; she has passed her water two or three times a day without the BIRMINGHAM PATHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. aid of the catheter. I passed the catheter and drew off six or eight ounces of urine, mixed with pus. On making an examination per vaginam, I found that the uterus had nearly righted itself. The os, which before could scarcely be felt above the pubes, is now low down, and directed towards the axis of the outlet. Ordered to continue the prussic acid mixture, and to omit the pill at bed-time. 13th. She has passed a bad night; has slept very little; been purged twice; made water freely, and for the first time since her illness, whilst sitting up; complains much of heart-burn and sickness; has vomited freely this morning; pulse 120; tongue nearly clean but reddish; she has less pain, but complains of feeling very weak. On making an examination per vaginam the uterus was found still low down, but the os directed towards the sacrum and nearly out of reach. R. Sode Sub-Carb. dr. iss; Acid. Hydrocyan, dil, m. xxx.; Aquæ, oz. viij M. Capt. ozj. quartis horis. R. Hydrarg. cum Creta, gr. viij.; Extr. Hyoscyami, gr. v. M. Fiat pil, ij, hora somni sumend. 15th. Not so well; she has had an attack of diarrhea and vomiting; passes water freely and without difficulty. Ordered Mist. Creta cum Opio. 16th. Better.-18th. Better. 19th. She has quickened; bowels confined; she passes her water freely, but has great pain just as she has finished; still passes pus with the urine or after it. 20th. Has been purged six times, and feels very | low. Pulse 110; tongue red; urinates freely; the purulent discharge continues; cheeks flushed, and she has a hectic appearance; the face appears shrunk; the uterus has risen higher. Examination per vaginam :— The os is in the right position; there is a soft swelling, or great fulness, between the uterus and pubes, and distinct from the uterus; the swollen part is very tender to the touch. Ordered to take an opiate at night, and the following mixture :-R. Liq. Potasse, Tinct. Hyosc., utrq, dr. ij.; Infus. Calumbæ, oz. vss, M. Sum. oz. j., ter die. To be allowed a mutton chop and a little beer. 21st. Passed a better night; bowels not moved since last evening; she has been much distressed with sickness and heart-burn, and great thirst. Examination per vaginam :-There is still great fulness anteriorly; the catheter was passed and half-a-pint of very fœtid arine, mixed with pus, drawn off. Ordered to take simple effervescing mixture at any time; the anodyne pill at night. 22nd. Has passed a much better night, has had less sickness and heart-burn, and less thirst; bowels not moved since yesterday; she passes her water freely, but complains of pain at last, or just as she finishes; the water is still mixed with pus; she complains of pain in the right side, in the situation of the kidney; there is also tenderness on pressure; pulse 120; she is less flushed. Passing the catheter last night gave her great pain. Mr. Hailey says there was some injury done to the urethra in the early part of her illness, and that there has been a small slough discharged from it to-day, and that there is a small opening in the urethra, into which the point of the 495. catheter passes, if care be not used. Contin. mist. effervesc. and anodyne; hot salt to be applied to the side. In the evening I received a message that she was worse; the pain in her side was very acute; vomiting frequent. Ordered Empl. Lyttæ amplum. Tinct. Opii, m. xxx. statim, et rept. pro re nata. 23rd. Not so well; has had constant vomiting; passed a very restless night, but had three or four hours sleep; the blister relieved the pain in the side; bowels not moved since yesterday; pulse 120, very feeble; altogether, her appearance is worse. Ordered Acid. Hydrocy. dil. in Mist. Camph. secunda quaque hora. Vespere.-Pulse 130, and weak; sickness continues ; she has not passed any urine, but says every time she vomits or coughs the urine is forced from her; just within the meatus urinarius there is a fungoid growth, the size of a large bean. In passing the catheter it enters the urethra readily, but when it has traversed three-fourths of it, it meets with some obstruction, which requires the handle to be depressed, and some manoeuvring to get it into the bladder;" on passing the finger into the vagina, along the course of the urethra, the point of the catheter was found to be arrested by the vaginal tumour, which presses against the neck of the bladder; there was no urine in the bladder, but it was found that a large quantity of pus had escaped by the side of the catheter into the bed. To continue the hydrocyanic mixture. To take Tinct. Opii, m. x., hora somni; Vin. Rubr., oz. j., quarta quaq. hora. She expressed a wish to take an egg, which was allowed her. The os uteri is in its natural position. 24th. She slept two hours only, but was more comfortable and passed the whole night without vomiting.. The sickness returned this morning and distresses her very much; bowels costive; pulse 120 and very feeble. She complains of the vomiting hurting her eyes very much; every time she vomits there is a gush of matter from the urethra. Ordered an aperient enema. Contin. Mistura cum Acid, Hydrocy. dil. m. v. in each dose. To continue the port wine and to have a sinapism applied to the epigastrium. 25th. Sickness very distressing; bowels not moved; pulse 120, and very feeble; can keep nothing on her Ordered the enema to be stomach but the wine. repeated every four hours till the bowels have been moved, and the anodyne at bed-time. 26th. Worse; pulse 130; vomits frequently; bowels not moved; urinates easily, but passes a large quantity of pus with the urine, it also gushes from her each time she vomits; she slept very little in the night; has had no pain in the side since the blister. To continue the wine, and to have a small blister to the epigastrium. A purging enema every four hours. To take Magn. Sulph., dr. ss.; Magn. Carb., gr. v., in water every three or four hours. She is much troubled with heart-burn; altogether her state is a very bad one, nearly hopeless. 27th. She is better; has not vomited since yesterday; pulse 120, with rather more volume in it; bowels moved three times; blisters acted well; urine less. purulent; she has taken a little calves-foot broth several times, which has remained on her stomach. To discontinue the medicine, as she has a great aversion to it. 28th. Something better; she was very anxious to take some tea, after which she vomited once or twice; bowels moved twice; urine much improved. To keep to the broth, but as she is constantly begging for change of diet, to have the yolk of an egg beat up with water, and two drachms of brandy. Not to take any medicine. an aperient injection. To be allowed a little bitter beer. March 1st. About the same; bowels not moved; has had a return of the sickness; pulse 120; urine less purulent; she has less pain, but still has some pain after making water; she is frequently wanting a change of diet, and soon tires of every thing. Ordered 2nd. Not so well; pulse 128, and rather weak; cheeks more flushed; vomiting more frequent. Yes. terday she was constantly craving for roast pork and sage which she had smelt whilst it was roasting; the nurse indulged her with a little; since she took it she has vomited everything she has taken; the urine is not so clear, there is more pus with it, and it smells worse; there has also been some discharge again when she has vomited; she is constantly troubled with thirst and heart-burn; tongue red; she complains of pains in her back, like labour-pains, and cannot lie on either side for more than a few minutes; she is easiest when she lies upon her back with her knees drawn up. Ordered mutton broth injections twice a day; to take barley water, which is the only thing that will remain any time on her stomach, and a little broth. To abstain from every thing else until the sickness is better. Empl. Belladonnaæ over the epigastrium. To take Liq. Potassæ, m. xx., ex Infus. Humuli tertia quaq. hora. 3rd. Has passed a restless night and had very little sleep; she complains much of weakness; pulse 130; she has not been sick since yesterday; has not taken anything but barley water and the mixture, which she thinks agrees with her. She says, in her former pregnancies she has never been a single day free from sickness, from the very commencement until the day of her confinement. Bowels moved once; urine rather clearer; the uterine pains are less, and she can now lie on either side for a short time; she has a great desire for food. To continue the mixture and barley water. To take Extr. Hyoscyami, gr. iv.; Morphia Hydrochlor., gr. ., hora somni. 4th. Worse; passed a bad night; is constantly sick, and vomits after everything she takes; pulse 130, very feeble. She has passed very little urine to-day; it mostly comes away when she vomits; she thinks the bitter | mixture does her good. Continue mixture and broth injections. To have a little boiled matton. 5th. She is rather better; has had less vomiting; urine more purulent; she is a little yellow, and bowels costive. Ordered Pil. Hydrarg., gr. iv., hora somni; and continue mixture. 6th. Worse; vomiting returned; very weak. To take the following:-R. Quinin. Disulph., gr. xij.; Acid. Sulph. dil., m. xxx.; Tinct. Aurant., oz. ss.; Aquæ, oz. vss. M. Sum. unciam quarta quaq. hora. Haust. Magnes. c. Rheo statim sumend. 7th. A little better; bowels moved twice, evacuations pale; vomiting stopped; she looks jaundiced; she complains of uterine pains. Rept. Pil. Hydrarg., hora somni, et mistura. 8th. About the same; the uterine pains increased during the day, and at night she was delivered of a five months' child. 9th. She is very weak; pulse quick and feeble; she has not had much lochial discharge; is still sick, and has vomited two or three times to-day; urine scanty and purulent. Ordered Sp. Ammon. Arom., dr. j., e cyatho Aquæ, quarta quaq. hora. Vin. Rubr., oz, j., quartis horis. 10th. Something better, but very weak; pulse very feeble. She has not been so sick, and has kept down the wine and water, also a little beef tea, or gruel. She has had more lochial discharge, and has expelled a few small clots, after which she seemed more prostrated. 11th. Worse; vomiting has returned; she appears to be sinking. She complains of great pain about the lower part of the belly, and tenderness on pressure. Ordered warm applications, and Tinct. Opio, m. xl. statim. She died in the evening. Autopsy, eighteen hours after death.-Slight sugillation about the nates only; skin dark, congested, and cracked on right hip; rigidity scarcely perceptible; abdomen sunk; fundus of uterus perceptible externally. The abdomen exposed by a mesial incision; no trace of inflammation about peritoneal surface in any part; no agglutination-every where it was clear, shining, and healthy; intestines of a dark, dirty greenish colour, especially those in the vicinity of the gall-bladder, which were deeply tinged; they were small, contracted. The uterus filled the pelvic cavity, its fundus rising a little above the brim; bladder small, contracted, and empty, and in its natural position behind the pubes, like a solid flattened body; the finger passed down between it and the uterus to the neck of both, also the cul de sac between the uterus and the rectum was of a most unusual depth, terminating very low behind the vagina. On the anterior part of the cul de sac, near the bottom, was an irregular, black, carbonaceous spot. On the anterior surface of the uterus was a large circular pale patch, about two inches and a half in diameter. The uterus could be easily turned backwards, retroverted, and passed into the cul de sac, throwing this circular spot upwards. The appearance of the tissues before removal was natural; the peritoneum in each cul de sac about the neck of the uterus had a spotted greyish appearance. The pelvic contents were removed together, including the rectum and vulva. On cutting across the right ureter, a thin, dirty yellowish pus, escaped; the ureter was much dilated; the left kidney was removed with the ureter entire. It is to be regretted that the right was not thus removed, as in it was the chief seat of mischief. Bladder.-Au elliptical piece was cutout of the fundus; the urethra slit up anteriorly; the nipple at meatus prominent; urethra about an inch and a half, surface natural in colour to the neck, where it became altered. Along the mesial line posteriorly the mucous membrane appeared slit, and gradually to separate until reaching QUEEN'S COLLEGE, BIRMINGAAM. the neck, where an aperture was formed under an arch of ploughed-up membrane, a quarter of an inch deep, stretched across. This had been evidently done by the catheter, though not very recently, as the edges were in close union with their subjacent parts, and covered by epithelium. The mucous lining of the bladder throughout, but especially posteriorly, was of a punctiform and maculated blackish grey; (these spots on the following day, when exposed to the atmosphere by the incision, bad become red;) the membrane sound not corrugated; the parietes thick and firm. QUEEN'S COLLEGE, BIRMINGHAM. REPORT OE THE COUNCIL. 497 At the annual meeting of Queen's College, held on Wednesday, August 25th, The Right Honourable Lord® Lyttelton, the Principal, in the chair, the following report was read, and on the motion of the Honourable and Rev. G. O. Yorke, seconded by C. N. Newdegate, Esq., M.P., was unanimously adopted : In making their twenty-first report, your Council rejoice to state that the past year has been distinguished by the steady progress of your Institution in a degree which its most sanguine friends could scarcely have anticipated. In pursuance of the address to the public issued by your Council in June, 1846, a department for "improving the preliminary education of students in medicine and surgery, by affording to them the advantage of receiving within the walls of the College early instruction in Latin and Greek, and mathematics, with the modern languages and the sciences," was established in October last, and has already produced results which are highly satisfactory. The number of students registered as studying at Queen's College within the period comprised between the first of October, 1846, and the present date, is Kidneys.-Left healthy; ureter somewhat enlarged and thickened in its upper part; right ureter throughout enlarged, gradually increasing upwards, also thickened; pervious to the bladder to water, not to probe, it contained the thin matter already noticed; the pelvis of the kidney was not much dilated; the true covering of the kidney was thick, and the surrounding cellular tissue unduly adherent and condensed. On section, a large quantity of thin, greenish yellow, purulent matter escaped from many cavities. The whole kidney was disorganized, and consisted almost of a series of dilated cysts, (the calices,) communicating with the pelvis. The upper end only had a sound portion. The surface of the cavities was greenish, dirty, soft, gelatinous, rotten. Uterus.-Fallopian tubes, ovaries, and broad liga-fifty-three. The number of students registered as being ments congested, soft, and rotten; a small cyst hung from the left Fallopian by a pedicle of two inches. Both ovaries, especially the right, were completely disorgan. ized-a mere pulpy mass. In the broad ligament near and about the left ovary were some yellowish spots and streaks, from which, on puncture, pus escaped. The uterus was about six inches long, and four and a half across; its parietes about the fundus thick. It contained a clot hanging from the seat of the placenta ; no portion of placenta in connection with it. The lining membrane was soft, dark, congested, and about the neck, brownish, rotten, almost sloughy; and posteriorly were three or four little, round, hard, elevated bodies, the size of hemp seed. On puncture a clear straw-coloured fluid escaped. The sloughy appearance terminated suddenly in the meck about an inch from the vagina, by an irregular, ragged, yet well-defined line all round. This ragged line formed the boundary and commencement of the healthy mucous membrane passing into the vagina; it could be lifted and peeled all round, and was clearly the thick epithelium. The vagina was congested, but healthy, and not of undue length. in attendance on the medical classes of the senior department is forty; and of the students in attendance on the classes of the junior department is thirteen. Thirty-three students have in the above period attended the medical and surgical practice of the Queen's Hospital, and seven at the General Hospital. Of the students in the senior department, nineteen have been in residence within the walls of the College; ten have been residing with medical practitioners, in or near Birmingham; three have been living with their parents or guardians; five have been in lodgings; and one at the General Hospital; and of two the resi dence is not ascertained. The number of students entered to the junior department, and in residence with the College tutors, has been eight; and nonresident students in the same department five. The report of the senior resident tutor on this subject is as follows:-" A spirit of zeal and application has pervaded the students in the class (i.e. junior) department, so that all, whether gifted with superior or inferior abilities, may truly be said to have improved their respective talents. In proof of this, I need only There was nothing particular about the sigmoid matriculation which has lately taken place in the Uniappeal to the periodical examinations, and to that for flexure of the rectum; the liver was healthy; gall-versity of London, at all of which the knowledge bladder much distended; stomach empty, except a little yellow mucus; everted, the mucous surface along the under part and at the curve was a beautiful specimen of bright punctiform injection, with a few dark maculee at the fundus, and towards the pylorus it had a yellow tinge The anterior, or upper surface was pale throughout, neither injected nor tinged; the whole surface sound; pylorus natural. Heart and lungs healthy; the right lung had in its upper lobe two or three stony bodies, of the size of peas, and had old adhesions in the upper and posterior part; a slight puckering on apex of left lung. Brain not examined. displayed by the candidates was very creditable. The prizes in my department have been well contested. The mathematical tutor in his report states :-"The application to their work, have been as satisfactory as I general behaviour of the students, their attention and could wish, and their progress on the whole has come up to the standard set them. Some have shot far of it, but the average of the whole is good and above beyond the mark, whilst others again have fallen short mediocrity." The medical tutor reports:-" The conduct of the students of the junior department Las been whole board of examiners, and that no passage or question be determined on unless it have received the sanction of a majority of at least four out of five of them. unexceptionable, and for evidence of their general progress in the studies which it devolves on me to conduct, I must refer to the manner in which they have passed their sessional examinations." The attendance of the students of this department on the classes of "4th. That none of the questions fixed upon be of a French, German, and drawing, has been less satisfac- doctrinal nature, and that no question be so put as to tory. It will be at the option of the parents or guar-require an expression of religious belief on the part dians of the students whether they shall attend them of any candidate. or not. Subject to these conditions the attendance of the students will be enforced at the several classes. In corroboration of the preceding testimony by the several tutors, it appears, from the matriculation list of the University of London, that of four students presenting themselves in July, all have passed; one was placed in the second division, three in the first division, and one obtained honours in chemistry; and it is worthy of remark, that one of the students referred to as having been placed in the first class, in July, 1847, (Edney,) was unacquainted even with the Greek characters in the preceding October; and also that the student who obtained honours in the chemical examination conducted by Professor Graham, (Fryer,) was totally unacquainted with that science at the same date. As regards general discipline, the state of the junior departments has upon the whole been satisfactory. Some instances of irregularity have required the lighter restraints and penalties, to which a resort is authorized under the bye laws, and in one instance it was necessary for the well-being of the College to have recourse to the grave punishment of expulsion. With regard to the general condition of the College, the senior tutor reports:-"It is permitted to me to speak generally in terms of high commendation. The system framed for the government of the College is so clear, and the spirit of the students has been so uniformly respectful and observant, that I have experienced much less trouble in the discharge of my duties than I could reasonably have expected. "The chaplain's register, kept by me, shows that the attendance at Divine service has been very good, and the attendance of the students, both senior and junior, at the theological lectures, has been quite satisfactory." "5th. That a printed paper be placed before each candidate, having on one side the passages selected from the Hebrew text, with questions relating to the Old Testament only; and on the other, passages selected from the Greek text, with questions relating to the New, as well as the Old, Testament; and that candidates, without being asked any vivá voce question on the subject, be allowed to chose whichever side of the paper he may think proper. "6th. That no answer nor translation given by any candidate be objected to on the ground of its expressing any peculiarity of doctrinal view, provided always that it be decorous in tone and language. "7th. That no candidate be declared not to have passed, except with the consent of at least four out of five of the examiners. "The opinion of the constituted authorities of Queen's College is requested thereupon.” After mature deliberation, the following reply from your Principal was unanimously approved and adopted. Hagley, March 6th, 1847. Sir,-Your communication to Wm. Sands Cox, Esq., Dean of the Faculty of Queen's College Birmingham, of date Nov. 11th, 1846, on the subject of certain propositions relating to a proposed examination in scrip. tural subjects, through which all candidates for the B.A. degree in the University of London should pass, upon which the opinion of the authorities of Queen's College was requested, came before the Council this morning, and I am empowered, as Principal of the College, to send to you the following reply to that communication. I regret that by some mistake it was not brought before the Council at an earlier period. The essential principle of the constitution of Queen's College, The first important question which came under the in so far as it bears upon the present question, is, that consideration of your Council was the following com- the students who are admitted within its walls for the munication addressed to the Dean of the Faculty, by purpose of receiving classical, mathematical, and prothe Registrar of the University of London, notice fessional instruction, shall also receive religious inhaving been given by a member of the Senate of the struction, and be subject to religious discipline, accordUniversity, of his intention to submit for the considera-ing to the principles of the Church of England. This tion of the Senate the following series of propositions:- last provision, however, may be taken rather as what “That all candidates for the B.A. degree shall be appeared to the Council to be the necessary mode of examined either in one of the books of the Pentateuch, giving effect to a general principle, than in itself conin the original Hebrew, or in one of the four Gospels, stituting such a general and fundamental principle. or the Acts of the Apostles, in the original Greek, and That general principle then is this:-That the also in Scripture history. religious character is essential to the very idea of a com "That with regard to this examination, the follow-plete education, or rather to education itself when ing regulations be adopted : "1st. That a board of examiners in these subjects be constituted, to consist of not fewer than five persons. "2nd. That the examination be conducted wholly on paper. "3rd. That all passages and questions proposed for the examination of the candidates be submitted to the rightly understood. Assuming, therefore, this principle, to which the Council considers itself pledged by the very constitution of the College; looking at the expres sed intention of the Charter of the University of London, of securing a regular and liberal course of education for the student, for whom it provides degrees; and considering the present state and practice of the |