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MONTREAL: Population, 267,730.

(6) McGill University Medical Faculty. Established 1824. An organic department of the university.

Entrance requirement: The University School Leaving Examination, strictly enforced. The medical course covers five years.

Attendance: 328.

Teaching staff: 99, of whom 19 are professors, 80 of other grade. Ten instructors devote their entire time to teaching.

Resources available for maintenance: The department has separate endowments aggregating $350,000 and is assisted out of the general university funds. Its fees amount to $43,750; its budget, $77,000.

Laboratory facilities: The laboratories having been recently injured by fire, the school is now waiting the completion of its new buildings, for which ample funds have been secured. Meanwhile its temporary quarters, well equipped for both teaching and research in all departments, show what energy and intelligence can accomplish in the face of disaster. The anatomical and pathological museums are among the most famous on the continent. The school possesses an excellent library and all necessary teaching accessories.

Clinical facilities: These are excellent. The school enjoys a most favorable relation to two large hospitals, of about 500 beds, besides several other institutions. Students work freely in all the wards and clinical laboratory.

The dispensary service is large and admirable.

Date of visit: March, 1909.

(7) Laval University Medical Department. Organized 1878. The university connection is not intimate.

Entrance requirement: Indefinite, depending on the prospective location of the student.

The medical course covers five years.

Attendance: 217.

Teaching staff: 8.

Resources available for maintenance: Fees, most of which are distributed among the teachers.

Laboratory facilities: Chemistry is given by the university. Anatomy is limited to dissecting. A single laboratory with meager equipment is assigned to pathology,