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vious sources of support: taxation may well be employed at least to mainta! departments calculated to meet local needs,— industrial, cial, or cultural; the'pride of its citizens ought to supplement its tax income by wa'y of supporting departments like medicine, whose main function can hardly be circu '.inscribed by local considerations. The future of the medical department is thus likely to depend on the intelligence and munificence of the private benefactors of the niversity. The city can contribute its hospital and part of the current maintenancei Thus far the'university has surely deserved well for its success in bringing together 'he rival schools which long divided and demoralized the field; the schools themselves made generous sacrifice of property rights in order to consummate the merger. It, should, however, be added that this impersonal attitude has yet to be applied to th'..e organization of the faculty. Property rights were yielded; professorial titles remain. Now, if the professors of the medical department of the University of Cincinnati really desire: as the coming together of the schools signifies—that there should be 0ne strong medical school in the city, they must realize that a school in which them iare nine professors of medicine and nine professors of surgery is as yet without orgnization. They ought therefore to surrender their titles to the university with e request that each clinical department be reconstructed by placing at its heod the .Single individual .marked out for the position, in the best judgment of the trustees of the university, by his scientific eminence and pedagogic skill. OKLAHOMA Population, 1,59,401. Number of physiciana 70/L Ratio, 1: 589. Number of medical schoo . NORMAN: Po/t/o 3889. (1) SrAT- UvEasrr oF OnaoMA, Scaoo. OF McrS Organized 1898. A half-school. An integral part of the university. Ent'anc .uirement: One year of college work in scieqcea Attendance: ti, all but I from Oklahomo. Teachin ta.: The instruction is given mainly by whb!e-time university teachers, two of whom devote their entire time to the department; the dean of the department is a practising physician. Resources availabJor maintenance: The deparimt is upported out of the general revenues of the university; fees amount to $600. Laborato,facilities: Modest laboratories, adequate to rOutine work, are provided in anatomy, physiology, physiological chemistry, pharmaCOlogy, histology, pathology,