A Correction of the Carnegie Foundation Report on Medical Education in Montreal

To the Editor: —Permit me to utilize your columns in order to rectify an error in Bulletin 4 of the Carnegie Foundation, dealing with Medical Education in the United States and Canada. I refer to my account of the medical department of Laval University, Montreal. This institution is entirely distinct from Laval University, Quebec, which also has a medical department. The Quebec school, however, publishes in its catalogue certain data respecting the Montreal school, and I inadvertently give in my account of the Montreal school some material taken from the inadequate statement in the Quebec catalogue. The staff of the Montreal school numbers 50, of whom 20 are professors. The number of beds in the two general hospitals used should have been given as 290, and an additional statement that the school has several supplementary hospitals should have been made. The lectures on chemistry for medical students are given by