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Ainiber1 of tie General MIedical Council; Vice-President (late President) of tlhe British AMedical Association. Changed (onditions of Jlelical Practice.-The-Rise in the Standtrd of (Ieneral Elducation.-A Schemne of Education for Boys.-Preliminary .J[edical Education.-A Modrfied Apprenticeship i,Systemt.-The Utilisation oC T1orkhouse Infirmaries, Countql Hospitals., etc.

is possible for the union of two individuals in marriage, neither of whom have ever shown the disease in question, to produce offspring so constituted that not one, but several, shall show proclivity to tissue-changes of the most peculiar and remarkable kind. This is certainly one of the most noteworthy facts as regards heredity with which we are acquainted. In other domains of clinical observation, it receives illustration in such maladies as retinitis pigmentosa, coloboma iridis, deaf-mutism, and colour-blindness, whilst in dermatology ichthyosis almost offers a parallel to Kaposi's disease.

F4 . ,'AAWWMI56.J& Jao, 1886. institutions is comparatively large. At the Royal Albert Aslum it hs averaged 35 per 1,000 of its population during the fourteen yean of its operations. Necropsies are always made wheni the consent of parents call be obtained ; and. we lhavj occasionially found, when least

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