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3. Clinical Tutors. —We also recommend the appointment by the Council of two clinical tutors—one surgical and one medical. These should receive a small salary-—say, £50 a year each and the fees of the tutorial class. There is no reason why these tutors should not be the assistant surgeon and physician. 4. General Recommendations. —We recommend that a letter be written to the Trustees asking them to reserve the old operating-theatre as a lecture-room. We consider that the whole of the fees paid by the students for hospital training should be handed over to the hospital teaching staff. We recommend that the foregoing appointments, and all honorary appointments in the hospital connected with the Medical School, should be for a term of two or three years. We recommend a conference with the Hospital Trustees on the following subjects : An increase in the number of beds ; the establishment of a ward for infectious diseases, and a maternity home ; the building of a morgue. We recommend the purchase by the Council of further apparatus for the teaching of surgery. 5. Professor of Physiology. —We recommend that a Professor of Physiology should be appointed, and that he be equipped with lecture-room, laboratory, and appliances. We estimate the salary for a Professor of Physiology to be £600 a year and half the fees. We recommend that he should not be allowed private practice. The cost of lecture-room, private room, two other rooms, laboratory, and laboratory appliances we roughly estimate at £2,000, if built in wood. We recommend that the Lecturer on Ophthalmology be paid a salary of £50 a year, and that the Lecturer on Mental Diseases receive the same amount, if satisfactory arrangements are made for a course of lectures at the University. Course of Study and Examination. —We believe that some alteration is required in the course of instruction and the times of examination, to bring them more into line with other universities ; and we recommend that the Dean should be asked to prepare a scheme, bearing in mind the remarks we have made in this report with regard to chemistry, physiology and anatomy, mental diseases, pathology, materia medica and therapeutics, anaesthetics, diseases of children, and the duplication of the principles of surgery in the final year. We recommend that an anaesthetist should be appointed to the Hospital, who should also supervise the practical instruction of students, and that each student should obtain a certificate setting forth that he had received practical instruction in the administration of anaesthetics. We recommend that special instruction be given on diseases of the throat and ear and on diseases of children. We recommend the Council to approach the Government with a request that a Bacteriologist should be appointed for the colony, and that he be located at the Medical School, Dunedin, and equipped with an up-to-date laboratory and appliances, and that he should give instruction on this subject to the students and graduates of the school. We recommend the Council to approach the Government with a request that the Lecturer on Medical Jurisprudence and Public Health should be appointed Health Officer for the district, and that all post-mortem examinations ordered by the Coroner should be made by him. We recommend, in accordance with the suggestions of the Professor of Physics, that students be excused attendance on that part of the lectures which treats of dynamo machines and electric lighting, and that the note on page 116 of the New Zealand University Calendar, 1901-2, with respect to physics, be amended accordingly. We recommend that, in accordance with the suggestion of the Professor of Biology, the students be excused attendance at the lectures on classification, occupying about two hours per week of the last twelve or thirteen weeks of the session, and that the New Zealand University be asked to amend the statute by excluding, on page 116 of the Calendar of 1901-2, paragraph 111., A. We are of opinion that it would be an advantage if the examination in organic chemistry could be taken earlier, and that the chemistry course should, if possible, be shortened, as the hours seem much longer here than elsewhere. We recommend the Council to ask the New Zealand University to amend the method of examination —(1) by allowing a student who fails in the final examination to come up again after an interval of six months ; (2) by permitting a student who fails in one or more subjects of the final examination to count those in which he has passed. We recommend that the Senate of the New Zealand University be asked to institute one or more medical scholarships for medical students. We summarise the Incrbased Expenditure involved in the proposals of this report:— £ Laboratory buildings and appliances (physiology) ... 2,000 Further apparatus for teaching surgery ... ... ~ 15 Professor of Physiology ... ... ... ... 600 per annum. Lecturer on Pathology (additional for lengthened course) ... 25 „ Lecturer on Ophthalmology ... ... ... ... 50 „ Lecturer on Mental Diseases ... ... - ... ... 50 „ Medical Tutor ... ... ... ... ... 50 Surgical Tutor ... ... ... ... 50 „ Medical library ... ... ... ... ... 20 „ We know that the recommendations made involve expenditure quite beyond the means at the disposal of the Council; but, feeling strongly that this most important technical school serves to supply the wants not of the district only, but of the whole colony, we believe it would be only right that the Government should be asked to assist to make it more complete, and thus more efficient. We therefore recommend the Council to place the position before the Government, and that they be asked to supply the financial aid necessary.