In a recent number ofThe Journal, Professor Symmers 1 combined a discussion of the defects in the teaching of pathology, and the deficiencies of the "lay professor." The first portion of the article was devoted largely to the difficulties in obtaining pathologic material. In conclusion, however, the front was shifted and a still wider problem in medical education was briefly touched on. Dr. Symmers has, I believe, placed two eggs of quite different variety in the same nest. Neither may hatch a bird of beautiful plumage, yet there is little relationship between the two except that they were to be incubated by the heat of a single discussion. Doubtless the subjects are worthy of treatment apart. I shall not ask the reader's indulgence on the subject of pathologic material for teaching, although ten years' experience in collecting anatomic material in the varying control of New York City leads one