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vious sources of support: taxation may well be employed at least to maintain departments calculated to meet local needs,—industrial, social, or cultural; the pride of its citizens ought to supplement its tax income by way of supporting departments like medicine, whose main function can hardly be circumscribed by local considerations, The future of the medical department is thus likely to depend on the intelligence and munificence of the private benefactors of the university. The city can contribute its hospital and part of the current maintenance. Thus far the university has surely deserved well for its success in bringing together the rival schools which long divided and demoralized the field; the schools themselves made generous sacrifice of property rights in order to consummate the merger. It should, however, be added that this impersonal attitude has yet to be applied to the organization of the faculty. Property rights were yielded; professorial titles remain. Now, if the professors of the medical department of the University of Cincinnati really desire—as the coming together of the schools signifies—that there should be one strong medical school in the city, they must realize that a school in which there are nine professors of medicine and nine professors of surgery is as yet without organization. They ought therefore to surrender their titles to the university with the request that each clinical department be reconstructed by placing at its head the single individual marked out for the position, in the best judgment of the trustees of the university, by his scientific eminence and pedagogic skill.

Population, 1,592,401. Number of physicians, 2703. Ratio, 1: 589.

Number of medical schools, 2.

NORMAN: Population, 3389.

(1) State University of Oklahoma, School of Medicine. Organized 1898. A half-school. An integral part of the university.

Entrance requirement: One year of college work in sciences.

Attendance: 22, all but 2 from Oklahoma.

Teaching staff: The instruction is given mainly by whole-time university teachers, two of whom devote their entire time to the department; the dean of the department is a practising physician.

Resources available for maintenance: The department is supported out of the general revenues of the university; fees amount to $600.

Laboratory facilities: Modest laboratories, adequate to routine work, are provided in anatomy, physiology, physiological chemistry, pharmacology, histology, pathology,