Public lectures are given in the various branches of medical instruction. The students are not required but recommended, generally to take notes, and examinations on the subjects of the previous lecture are usually had before commencing each lecture. 7. Discipline. The Faculty consider themselves at liberty to exercise the power of expulsion for crimes or immoral conduct. No occasion for the exercise of this power has occurred. No discrimination of relative merit, as regards scholarship or conduct was made. 8. Gratuitous Aid. No provision for gratuitous aid exists in this University. 9. Statutes and By-Laws. The Regents are respectfully referred to the accompanying circular for the general regulations of the Medical Department of the University. 10. Description and Value of College Buildings. The building occupied by the Medical Department of the University is a stone edifice, situated on the corner of Main and Virginia streets, and is 54 feet in width by 100 in depth, four stories in height, and contains ample and convenient rooms for dissections, museums, lectures, and all the different departments of medical instruction. About $14,000 have been expended in the construction of the building. Of this sum, above $10,000 was contributed by the citizens of Buffalo; $2,000, in two annual appropriations, from the State, and $1,050 by the Faculty. 11. Description and value of other College Property. The Library contains a few hundred volumes. The Chemical and Philosophical Apparatus, &c., is the property of the Professor of Chemistry and Pharmacy. The Anatomical and Pathological Museum is valued at about $400. This does not include private property of the several Professors deposited in the College Museum. The above is exclusive of the amounts received by the Professors for their tickets. 13. Debts. There is due on the lot on which the building is erected, secured by mortgage, $3,300. 14. Income and Expenditures. The income, derived from the matriculation and graduation fees, was expended in the payment of incidental expenses, as fuel, light, &c. The Medical and Surgical Dispensary, previously established, was continued during the session of 1850. Patients were prescribed for before the class, and surgical operations performed; medicines being furnished to those unable to pay for such services and medicines. The Buffalo Hospital of the Sisters of Charity is situated a few rods from the College building. This institution is capable of receiving about one hundred patients, and additions nearly completed will double its ability to afford relief to the indigent sick. The Professors of Medicine and Surgery are the attending medical officers of the hospital, from the month of October to the month of April of each year. The College students are permitted to visit the hospital twice weekly, with the attending medical officers, on the payment of a fee of five dollars for the benefit of the hospital. By this arrangement, ample clinical advantages are offered to students attending lectures in the Medical Department of the University. About sixty students attended the hospital during the session of 1849-50. The foregoing is respectfully submitted by the undersigned, (in behalf of the Council of the University of Buffalo,) being a committee appointed expressly for that purpose. T. BURWELL, JNO. D. SHEPARD, O. H. MARSHALL.. A |