which received the approval of Her late Majesty in Council on the 18th day of May, 1897:

And whereas the powers conferred on the said Commissioners had expired:

And whereas the University Court of the University of Aberdeen has resolved that it is expedient that the provisions of the said Ordinances in so far as they affect the University of Aberdeen should be altered or revoked, and that the provisions hereinafter set forth should be substituted therefor:

And whereas parts of certain Ordinances for Bursaries, Higher Degrees in Arts and Science, for Examinations, and for Boards of Studies, make references directly or indirectly to the aforementioned Ordinances, and it is expedient that these references should be made to apply to the provisions of this Ordinance as hereinafter set forth:

Therefore the University Court of the University of Aberdeen hereby statutes and ordains with reference to the Regulations for Degrees in Medicine of the University of Aberdeen as follows:

DEGREES AND DIPLOMAS IN MEDICINE AND SURGERY.

I. Four Degrees in Medicine and Surgery shall be conferred by the University of Aberdeen, namely, Bachelor of Medicine (M.B.), Bachelor of Surgery (Ch.B.), Doctor of Medicine (M.D), and Master of Surgery (Ch.M). The Degree of Bachelor of Surgery shall not be conferred on any person who does not at the same time obtain the Degree of Bachelor of Medicine, and the Degree of Bachelor of Medicine shall not be conferred on any person who does not at the same time obtain the Degree of Bachelor of Surgery.

II. Subject to Regulations to be made from time to time by the Senatus, with the approval of the University Court, the University may confer * Diplomas in Special Branches of Medical and Surgical Practice on graduates in Medicine and Surgery of the University of Aberdeen, and also on other legally qualified medical practitioners who shall have pursued the prescribed course of study in the University.

ACADEMICAL YEAR.

III. The academical year shall commence on the first day of October. In each academical year there shall be three nearly equal terms, including not less than thirty teaching weeks. Two such terms shall for the purpose of reckoning the duration of Medical study be deemed the equivalent of one winter session,

* For Regulations for the Diploma in Public Health, vide infra.

and one such term shall be deemed the equivalent of one summer session. The days on which courses of instruction shall open and close in each term shall be determined by the Senatus, with the approval of the University Court.

PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION.

IV. Before commencing his course of Medical study, each student shall pass a Preliminary Examination in (1) English, (2) Latin, (3) Mathematics, and (4) an Additional Language, namely, Greek, French, German, Italian, or such other language as the Senatus may approve: Provided always that, in the case of a student whose native language is other than English, an Examination in any other classical language, for example, Sanskrit or Arabic, may be substituted for an examination in Latin, and an examination in the native language of the student may be substituted for an examination in the Additional Language.

V. The extent and standard of the Preliminary Examination shall be determined by the Joint-Board of Examiners constituted under Ordinance of the said Commissioners No. 13, General No. 8 [Regulations as to Examinations] in accordance with the terms of that Ordinance.

VI. The preliminary Examination shall be conducted in accordance with the provisions of the said Ordinance No. 13, General No. 8 [Regulations as to Examinations]; and subject to the provisions of the immediately succeeding Section hereof, a student shall be obliged to pass in all the required subjects at one or not more than two examinations; provided that he may offer himself for re-examination as often as may be necessary to satisfy this condition.

VII. A Degree in Arts or in Science (not being a Degree honoris causâ tantum) in any of the Universities of the United Kingdom, or in any Indian, Colonial, or Foreign University specially recognised for the purpose by the University Court, shall exempt from the Preliminary Examination; and the JointBoard of Examiners appointed under the provisions of Ordinance No. 13, General No. 8 [Regulations as to Examinations] shall have power to determine what examinations, other than those for the degrees herein before mentioned, shall be accepted either in whole or in part, in place of the Preliminary Examination.

The following Universities have been recognised for the purpose of this section by the University Court, viz.: (1) Universities of India (Allahabad, Bombay, Calcutta, Madras, Punjab); (2) Universities of Australia (Adelaide, Melbourne, Queensland, Sydney, Tasmania); (3) The University of New Zealand; (4) Universities of Canada (Halifax, Kingston (Ontario), Manitoba, Montreal, Quebec, Toronto); (5) The University of the Cape of Good Hope; (6) Michigan University, U.S.A.

Applications for the recognition of other Universities will be considered as they

arise.

PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION.

The Preliminary Examination is conducted twice in the year, in March and in September.

A fee of 10s. 6d. is payable by every candidate on each occasion of presenting himself for the Preliminary Examination.

Every Candidate is required to obtain from the Secretary of the University a Schedule, which he must fill up and return, along with the necessary Fee, either personally or by letter, to the Secretary, not later than ten days previous to the commencement of the Examination.

The subjects of examination are (1) English, (2) Latin, (3) Mathematics, (4) Greek or French or German, and the scope of the Examinations in the various subjects is as follows:

In English no set books shall be prescribed, nor shall a general knowledge of the life and works of the greater authors be expected of candidates, but one or two questions may be set, giving an opportunity to candidates to show a knowledge of famous literary works. The historical questions shall not be confined to any one period, but shall cover the whole of British History, and shall be set in such a way as to give an opportunity to candidates who have confined their studies to a single period to show their knowledge. A single three hours' paper shall be set, containing an Essay, a Paraphrase, two questions on History, two on Geography, four on Grammar (including Correction of Sentences, Parsing, Analysis of Sentences and Derivations), two of a literary and general kind. Eight answers shall be required. The eight shall include the Essay and the Paraphrase, and at least one question in History and one in Geography.

One paper shall be set in French and one in German. The papers shall be of a lower standard than those set in these subjects in the Arts and Science Preliminary. The time allowed for each of these papers shall be three hours. The paper in each subject shall comprise questions in Grammar, translation into English and Composition (including a continuous passage, and short sentences of an idiomatic character).

The Latin Examination will include-Translation and Parsing, Prose Composition, Grammar and Sentences.

The Greek Examination will include-Translation, Sentences and Grammar. The Examination in Mathematics will comprise

(a) Arithmetic, including Vulgar and Decimal Fractions, Proportion, Percentage, Square Root, Simple Interest.

(b) Algebra, including Fractions, Factors, Square Root, Equations of the first degree, Simultaneous Equations of the first degree, Easy Quadratic Equations, Problems leading to above Equations.

(c) Geometry-Euclid, Books I., II., and III. (or their equivalents), with Easy Deductions.

Each

The paper in Mathematics will be devoted to the various subjects comprised, in as nearly as possible the following proportions: Four-ninths to Geometry, three-ninths to Algebra, and two-ninths to Arithmetic. question in Geometry will consist of two parts, of which one will be an easy deduction or illustrative exercise on the proposition set as bookwork.

The papers set in examinations in an "Additional Language," approved by the Senatus, or in the student's native language (as a substitute for the Additional Language) or in another classical language (as a substitute for Latin), under the above-mentioned Medical Ordinances shall conform, so far as possible, to the directions for setting papers in Modern Languages and in Latin respectively. Candidates who, having taken English, or a Modern Language on the Higher Standard, as prescribed by the Arts Ordinance for the Arts and Science Preliminary, have obtained a satisfactory percentage of marks, shall be held to have passed the Medical Preliminary in these subjects, provided that all the required subjects are passed at not more than two examinations. It shall be in the option of any candidate for the Medical Preliminary to take the papers set on the Higher Standard for the Arts Preliminary in any of the subjects.

It is at the Joint Board's discretion at all times in the case of any candidate for the Medical Preliminary who professes all his four subjects at one time and who has obtained in all a number of marks equivalent to the sum of the marks required for a pass in each, to allow such candidate a pass in the whole examination, provided that in no single subject he has obtained less than half of the marks required for a pass, and that the pass mark be reached in the English paper. Special consideration is given, at the discretion of the Board, in the case of foreign candidates, but a candidate whose native language is not English must have passed in at least two of the subjects without deduction being made on his behalf from the ordinary standard prescribed by the Board in these subjects.

EXAMINATIONS ACCEPTED AS EXEMPTING FROM THE PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION IN MEDICINE.

Provided always that the Regulations of the General Medical Council regarding the Registration of Students of Medicine be complied with.

(1) In terms of the Medical Ordinances, "a Degree in Arts or in Science (not being a degree honoris causâ tantum) in any of the Universities of the United Kingdom, or in any Colonial or Foreign University, specially recognised for the purpose by the University Court, shall exempt from the Preliminary Examination". In virtue of the powers conferred on them by the Medical Ordinances the Joint Board have resolved as follows:

(2) Any Candidate who produces a certificate of having passed the Preliminary Examination in Arts and Science in any Scottish University, either at the University Examination or through the Leaving Certificate Examinations of the Scotch Education Department, or partly at the University Examination, and partly through the Leaving Certificate Examinations shall be held to have passed the Preliminary Examination for Medicine, provided that his examination has included the specified subjects of General Education as required under the Regulations of the General Medical Council, and by the Medical Ordinances of the Scottish Universities.

(3) A candidate who has passed the Arts and Science Preliminary Examination of the Joint Board in any subject (Higher Grade where there is more than one) recognised for the Medical Preliminary Examination, shall be exempted from further examination in that subject.

NOTE.-Applications for exemption on the ground of having passed Examinations not included in the following list should be addressed to the Convener of the Joint Board. As all the Universities have to be consulted, a decision on a new case cannot be guaranteed in a shorter time than two or three weeks.

Leaving Certificates.

(4) A candidate who has passed in the Higher Grade in any subject of the Leaving Certificate Examinations of the Scotch Education Department recognised for the Medical Preliminary Examination, shall be exempted from further examination in that subject.

(5) The Leaving Certificate of the Scotch Education Department will be accepted as exempting from the Medical Preliminary Examination, provided that it includes the four requisite subjects.

(6) The Intermediate Certificate of the Scotch Education Department will be accepted as exempting from the Medical Preliminary Examination, provided that it includes the four requisite subjects. When all the necessary subjects are not included, passes in individual subjects may be accepted, if the Department has notified to the Dean of the Faculty, the Clerk of Senatus or the Convener of the Joint Board that a sufficient standard has been reached in such subjects.

(7) Passes in the Lower Grade of the Leaving Certificate Examinations of the Scotch Education Department will not be accepted as exempting from the Medical Preliminary Examination, unless the examinations in all the requisite subjects have been taken and passed at one or not more than two examinations. Note.-Except as provided above (7), the Regulation that all the subjects of the Examination shall be passed at one or not more than two Examinations shall not be held to apply in the cases 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6; but candidates applying under these sections must obtain a University Certificate, specifying the Examinations passed by them which have been accepted as equivalent to the Medical Preliminary Examination, and must present the said Certificate to the Medical Registrar in order to Registration.

(8) The following English and Irish University Examinations will be accepted as exempting from the Medical Preliminary. Examination subject to the following conditions: (a) That they include the subjects required under the Regulations of the General Medical Council, and prescribed by the Medical Ordinances of the Scottish Universities. (b) That, where total exemption is claimed, all the required subjects shall have been passed at one or not more than two Examinations; and that when exemption in one or more subjects is claimed, all the remaining required subjects shall be passed at one or not more than two Preliminary Examinations.

(1) University of Oxford.

(a) A pass in Responsions or in Moderations will exempt from the Medical Preliminary Examination provided that the candidate shall also pass the Scottish Universities Preliminary Examination in English.

(b) A pass in the Oxford Higher Local Examinations will exempt from further examination in all the subjects included.

(c) A pass in the Oxford Senior Local Examination will exempt from further examination in all the subjects included other than English. In English, when the applicant has only a pass, exemption will be allowed only if Composition has been taken, with Literature or a Literary Subject.

(2) University of Cambridge.

(a) A pass in the Previous Examination, if subsequent to Michaelmas Term, 1896, will exempt from the Medical Preliminary Examination. If the pass is prior