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MEDICINE.
The Faculty of Medicine is descended from the Hongkong College of Medicine, an institution founded in 1887 and thereafter carried on by private practi- tioners in the Colony and officers of the Government medical service, which was incorporated in the Uni- versity on its creation. A full-time Chair of Surgery and Anatomy was created at an early date, and full-time chairs of Physiology and Pathology have since been added, but teaching in the Faculty has continued to be carried on to a large extent by part-time lecturers, in accordance with the old traditions of British medicine. To the special Schools of Physiology, Pathology and Tropical Medicine allusion has already been made a special school of Anatomy dates from the opening of the University.
That the work of the Faculty has been sub- atantially satisfactory is proved both by the recogni- tion of its degrees by the General Medical Council and by the selection of the University by the Rocke- feller Foundation for what, for the Far East, is a very considerable grant. It will, therefore, be sufficient to discuss the general policy upon which that
grant is based.
Modern tendencies in medical education favour a closer connection of instruction in the clinical sub- jects with hospital practice and the teaching of those subjects by men who can give their whole time to the
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