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UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.The student must enter at one of the Colleges, or as a

non-collegiate student, and keep terms for three years byresidence in the University. He must pass the PreviousExamination in Classics and Mathematics, which may, andshould if possible, be done immediately on coming intoresidence in October, or, which is best, obtain exemptionthrough the Oxford and Cambridge Schools ExaminationBoard or the Local Examinations, before commencing resi-dence. He may then devote himself to medical study inthe University, attending the hospital and the medicallectures, dissecting, &c. Or he may proceed to take a degreein Arts, either continuing mathematical and classical studyand passing the ordinary examinations for B.A., or goingout in one of the Honour Triposes. The Natural SciencesTripos is the most appropriate, as the subjects are the sameas those for the First and Second M.B. Examinations.For the degree of Bachelor of Medicine five years of

medical study are required, except in the case of medicalstudents who have graduated with honours as Bachelors ofArts, four years only being then required, though it is rarelysufficient. This time may be spent in Cambridge or else-where. The first three or four years are usually spent inCambridge, the student remaining in the University till hehas passed (say) the examination for the Natural SciencesTripos and the first and second examinations for M.B.Cambridge being now a complete School of Medicine, all therequisite lectures and hospital practice may be attendedhere, and many students remain to attend lectures andhospital practice until they have passed the first part ofthe third examination for M.B. The supply of subjects forDissection and Practical Surgery is unusually abundant.There are three examinations for M.B. The first in

Chemistry and other branches of Physics, and in ElementaryBiology. These may be taken together or separately. Thesecond in Human Anatomy and Physiology, and in Phar-maceutical Chemistry. These may be taken together orseparately. The third may be also taken in two parts-viz.,(1) Principles of Surgery (with Operative and ClinicalSurgery) and Midwifery and Diseases of Women, and (2)Pathology, Principles and Practice of Medicine, Elements ofHygiene, and Medical Jurisprudence. The examinationsare partly in writing, partly oral, and partly practical, inthe hospital, in the dissecting-room, and in the laboratories.

Previously to the first examination, Lectures must havebeen attended on Chemistry (with manipulations). Pre-viously to the second examination, the student must haveattended Lectures on Human Anatomy, Pharmacy andPharmaceutical Chemistry, and Physiology, have dissectedfor six months, and attended Hospital Practice six months.Previously to the first part of the third examination, hemust have attended Lectures on Pathology, the Principlesof Surgery and Midwifery, the Surgical Practice of a Hos-pital with Clinical Lectures for a year, ten cases of blid-wifery, and produce a certificate of proficiency in Vaccina-tion. Previously to the second part of the third examination,he must have attended Lectures on the Principles andPractice of Physic, the Physiological Action and Therapeu-tic Uses of Drugs, and Medical Jurisprudence; also theMedical and Surgical Practice of a Hospital with ClinicalLectures for three years, and have been Clinical Clerk forsix months; and have acted as House-Surgeon or Dresserfor six months, and have gone through a course of instruc-tion in Practical Surgery.The degree of Doctor in Medicine may be taken three

years after that of 3/f.B. An Act has to be kept, with vivd- ’

voce examination; and an extempore essay has to bewritten on some subject relating to Physiology, Pathology,the Practice of Medicine, or State Medicine.As Operative and Clinical Surgery now form parts of the

third M.B. examination candidates who have passed thatexamination are admitted to the degree of Bachelor ofSurgery (B.C.), without separate examination.For the degree of Master in Surgery (M.C.) the candidate

must have passed all the examinations for B.C. two years.He is required to pass an examination in Surgical Anatomyand Surgical Operations, Pathology, and the Principles andPractice of Surgery.An ab;tract of the Regulations and Schedules of the range

of the examinations in Chemistry, Physics, Biology, andPharmacy may be obtained by sending a stamped directedenvelope to the Assistant-Registrar, Cambridge. Full in-formation is contained in the Gambridge UniversityCalendar.

UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.

The Matriculation Examinations take place on the secondMonday in January and the third Monday in June. Candi-dates must be above sixteen years of age. The fee for theexamination is .E2. Provincial examinations are appointedby the Senate from time to time at specified centres. Severalscholarships, exhibitions, and prizes are associated withthese examinations,The Preliminary Scientific Of-B.) -E-raminatio2i takes

place twice in each year, once for Pass and Honours, com-mencing on the third Monday in July, and once for Passcandidates only on the third Monday in January3 No can-didate will be admitted to this examination until he shallhave passed the Matriculation Examination, nor unless hehave given notice of his intention to the registrar at leastone calendar month before the commencement of the exami-nation. Fee for this examination, £5.

Candidates are examined for a Pass or for Honours onInorganic Chemistry and Experimental Physics; and for aPass, on General Biology. Candidates for Honours, who haveentered for the whole examination, may also be examinedin Botany and Vegetable Physiology, and Zoology, unlessthey have previously obtained an exhibition in any one of £the subjects of this examination at the IntermediateExamination in Science, in which case they shall not beadmissible to the examination for Honours in that subject,Bachelor of Medicine.—Every candidate for the degree of £

Bachelor of Medicine will be required-1. To have passed theMatriculation Examination in this University. 2. To havepassed the Preliminary Scientific Examination. 3. To havebeen engaged in his professional studies during four yearssubsequently to passing the Preliminary Scientific Examination 4at one or more of the medical institutions or schoolsrecognised by this University, one year at least of the fourto have been spent in one or more of the recognised institu-tions or schools in the United Kingdom. 4. To pass twoexaminations in Medicine.

Intermediate Examination.-The Intermediate Examina-nation in Medicine takes place twice in each year, oncefor Pass and Honours, commencing on the second Mondayin July, and once for Pass candidates only, commencing onthe third Monday in January, the January examinationbeing held for the first time in 1888. No candidate shallbe admitted to this examination unless he have passed thePreliminary Scientific Examination at least two years pre-viously, and have produced certificates to the followingeffect :-1. Of having completed his nineteenth year. 2. Ofhaving, subsequently to having passed the MatriculationExamination, been a student during two years at one ormore of the medical institutions or schools recognised bythis University, and of having attended a course of lectureson each of three of the subjects in the following list: :-

Descriptive and Surgical Anatomy, Histology and Physiology,Pathological Anatomy, Materia Medica and Pharmacy,General Pathology, General Therapeutics, Forensic Medicine,Hygiene, Obstetric Medicine and Diseases peculiar to Womenand Infants, Surgery, Medicine. 3. Of having, subsequentlyto having passed the Preliminary Scientific Examination,dissected during two winter sessions. 4. Of having, subse-quently to having passed the Preliminary Scientific Exami-nation, attended a course of Practical Chemistry, compre-hending practical exercises in conducting the more importantprocesses of general and pharmaceutical chemistry, inapplying tests for discovering the adulteration of articles ofthe materia medica and the presence and nature of poisons,and in the examination of mineral waters, animal secretions,urinary deposits, calculi, &c. 5. Of having attended toPractical Pharmacy, and of having acquired a practicalknowledge of the preparation of medicines. These certifi-cates (as is the case also with all the certificates hereinaftermentioned) must be transmitted to the registrar at leastfourteen days before the commencement of the examination.Fee for this examination, £5.

Candidates will be examined in the following subjects :Anatomy, Physiology, Histology, Materia Medica and Phar-maceutical Chemistry, and Organic Chemistry.

3 Candidates for the degree of M.B. are required by the Senate topass the Preliminary Scientific Examination before commencing theirregular medical studies, and are recommended to devote a preliminaryyear to preparation for it, according to the following programme:—Winter Session: Experimental Physics, Chemistry (especially Inorganic),Zoology. Summer Session: Practical Chemistry (Inorganic), Botany.4 Candidates who passed the Matriculation Examination in January,

1885, or previously, will be allowed to date the commencement of theirprofessional studies, as heretofore, from that examination.