The new structures, being joined to the ancient buildings of the school, which were completed in 1780, permit of the preservation of the grand amphitheatre already existing, of the amphitheatres and laboratories of chemistry, of the halls for collections, of a vast library, of offices, and of the apartments for the dean. The second section, designed for the prosecution of practical studies, comprises the buildings of the hospital of clinics iu the ancient convent of the Franciscans, and the

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... tments at present appropriated for pavilions for dissection. Tho principal divisions are a great amphitheatre for the courses of the faculty, various halls for free instruction, large physiological laboratories, a court for animals, aquariums, and apartments for practical anatomy (halls foidissection, laboratories of histology, of pathological chemistry, etc.) ; in addition, a museum of pathological anatomy within the ancient refectory of the Franciscans, and, finally, special laboratories for the professors, and various apartments. The entire expense of these works will be scarcely less than nine