and not requiring to be learned ? Will not Harvard, always in advance, ponder these important questions ? In Great Britain to-day there are organized in the various medical schools, bearer companies, made up of medical students, through the instrumentality of which the students are at the same time learning the rudiments of military sanitation, and enjoying themselves in their clubs, wbich these companies really are. The State, appreciating the immense value of these organizations as a means to

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... an end, the dissemination of medico-military knowledge, gives them every possible encouragement; and the healthy emulation between the different organizations is the best evidence of the individual interest taken therein. It is high time that our own great medical schools should realize the obligation they are under to do their part in preparing for the public defence, and to meet that obligation by establishing efficient courses of instruction in military sanitation, bearing in mind the fact that this specialty includes not alone military medicine aud surgery, but everything pertaining to the prevention and cure of disease aud injury under the peculiar and varied conditions of military life.