number of which are equipped with oil emersion lenses. There are also an ample number of microtomes for students' use, besides microtomes of special construction for particular kinds of work, electric projection apparatus of latest design, and all other apparatus in any way necessary for students' work or for the illustration of lectures. The College has recently purchased the West Division High School property which is adjacent to the present buildings. This property occupies half of the block, is bounded on three sides by streets and on the side next to the present college buildings by a narrow alley. The building upon this property is a very fine modern brick and stone school building, excellently adapted to the needs of a medical school. This addition more than trebles the room at the disposal of the college and gives it a group of buildings for a medical school that is unsurpassed.

FREE DISPENSARY

The dispensary occupies part of the first and second floors of the main building. Connected with the reception room are fourteen clinic rooms for the accommodation of the various specialties in medicine and surgery. During the past five years there have been treated in these rooms an average of twenty thousand patients each year.

HOSPITAL FACILITIES

Members of the faculty and other friends of the College purchased, a few years ago, the adjoining building of the Post-Graduate Medical School and converted it into a hospital of 125 beds. It is a large, handsome structure, 50x100 feet, five stories high, of modern construction, and completely furnished. It is connected with the college amphitheater by a corridor and its clinical resources are thus made easily available for the instruction of students. An entire floor of this hospital is reserved as a ward for patients who are maintained by the College for the instruction exclusively of its students. It is designed to increase these hospital re

sources as necessity indicates. Directly opposite the College is Cook County Hospital, the only free hospital in Chicago. It contains constantly almost a thousand patients, and supplies a quantity and variety of clinical material which no private institution can command. In the amphitheater of the hospital much of the clinical instruction of the College is given and its wards furnish most of the bedside instruction. In addition to the foregoing resources members of the faculty are connected with various other hospitals of the city and freely draw upon them for the benefit of students.

REQUIREMENTS FOR GRADUATION

First, a certificate of good moral character by two reputable physicians.

Second, satisfactory deportment during attendance at college.

Third, satisfactory evidence that the candidate is twentyone years of age.

Fourth, proof that the candidate has attended at least four full courses of instruction in four separate years, the last of which shall have been in this institution.

Fifth, certificate that the candidate has pursued the study of practical anatomy during two years and to the extent of having dissected at least the lateral half of the human body. Sixth, certificate that the candidate has attended two full courses of dispensary and hospital clinics.

Seventh, payment of all the college fees in full.

LIBRARY

The College has for several years had a reference library of several hundred volumes. This library owes its foundation to the gift to the College of the collection of books of the late Prof. A. Reeves Jackson. It has been added to largely from time to time by contributions from members of the faculty and other friends of the College. Its usefulness has recently been greatly augmented by gifts from

the Dean of the Faculty, in consideration of which, and of provision made for its permanent maintenance and growth, it has been named by the faculty the Quine Library. It already contains practically every book of reference required by medical students, and the important medical periodicals. In point of size and completeness it is the second medical library in Chicago, the Newberry Library being the first, and in attendance of readers it is the first. It is in charge of a trained librarian, and is open daily from nine to five for the use of students.

SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY

The College of Medicine will open a School of Dentistry October 1, 1901. Particulars with regard to this school will be given in the Announcement of the College of Medicine for the year 1901.

More detailed information concerning the College may be obtained by application to the Registrar of the University, Urbana, Ill., or to the Secretary of the College of Medicine, Dr. William Allen Pusey, 103 State Street, Chicago.

THE SCHOOL OF PHARMACY

(For Faculty of School of Pharmacy, see p. 23.)

HISTORY.

The Chicago College of Pharmacy is a corporation which was founded by prominent pharmacists of Chicago and vicinity in 1859 for the purpose of advancing the practice of pharmacy. One of the first steps taken was the establishment of a school of pharmacy. At that time there was no school of the kind west of the Alleghany Mountains. Members and friends contributed money, books, apparatus, and supplies; teachers were secured and a course of lectures was instituted in November, 1859.

The first class, of but two students, was graduated in 1861. The war caused a suspension of the teaching, and the school was not reopened until 1870. The great fire, in 1871, destroyed the equipment, but pharmacists throughout Europe and America extended help to the institution, furnishing an excellent library and outfit of apparatus, which became the nucleus of the present complete equipment. In 1872 the instruction was resumed for the second time and has since continued without interruption.

"The Pharmacist," a monthly journal published by the College, from 1866 until 1886, did much to advance the interests of pharmacy in the West.

In 1880 the members and graduates of the College took an active part in the formation of the Illinois Pharmaceutical Association, which, in the following year, secured the passage of the pharmacy law.

The twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the College was signalized by the completion and occupation of a

building in which ample space for many years' growth was provided. The better accommodations gave an impulse to better work. Up to this time instruction had been given mainly by means of lectures, laboratory work being entirely optional. Laboratory courses in pharmacy, chemistry, and vegetable histology were now made obligatory. A laboratory devoted entirely to prescription compounding was established in 1892. The excellence of the equipment in this department won for the College a medal and diploma at the World's Columbian Exposition.

The College was formally united with the University May 1, 1896, and is now conducted as the technical "School of Pharmacy of the University of Illinois." In the management of the School the Trustees and officers of the University have the assistance of an advisory board of pharmacists elected by the registered pharmacists of the state through the Illinois Pharmaceutical Association.

The School is situated near the business center of Chicago. In addition to the larger amphitheater, known as "Attfield Hall," which has a seating capacity of three hundred and fifty, the building occupied has a smaller hall especially fitted for lectures and demonstrations in chemistry, and capable of seating one hundred and fifty persons. The chemical and pharmaceutical laboratories, as well as the microscopical laboratory and the dispensing laboratory, are commodious and well appointed.

The courses of instruction, covering two terms of seven months each, extending from September to April, inclusive, afford opportunities for a thorough technical training, such as is necessary for the successful practice of pharmacy. The subjects taught are pharmacy, chemistry, botany, and materia medica.

The system of teaching includes lectures, demonstrations, recitations, written and oral examinations, as well as individual instruction in actual work in operative and dispensing pharmacy, analytical chemistry, use of the compound microscope, etc. Much time is devoted to laboratory practice.