Descriptive Catalogue of the Pathological Series in the Hunterian Museum of The Royal College of Surgeons of England

different teaching methods favoured in the same medical school by successive staffs. The mark left by the teacher upon the student body has been studied with particular care by the authors, as also the changing balance between research and teaching programmes. For those unfamiliar with certain links between European and American pharmacology in the last century and the role played in recent years by the pharmacological industry, it would probably have been desirable to offer an introductory chapter analyzing those events and their bearing, if any, on pharmacology at the University of Virginia. F. GUERRA