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MEDICAL EDUCATION. 229At present our students represent Canton, Foochow,Nanking, and Peking. Students who must first acquirea working knowledge of Northern Mandarin can beaccommodated in the Girls High School, located withthe W. F. M. S. of the Methodist Mission, or in theBridgman Preparatory School, located with the AmericanBoard Mission, Peking. Preparatory work may also betaken in these schools if desirable.The two girls of the first medical class have madesplendid records. The questions from the New YorkState examinations in anatomy were given, and bothpassed over ninety-five per cent, on a written examination. They passed equally well in physiology. Thesegirls are Methodists and are earnest Christians. Thenext class will include two girls from our Foochowschool, another from Nanking, and two daughters ofan official in Tientsin. The Nurses School has becomean essential part of our work, and demands Miss Powell sbest efforts. As yet there are no graduate nurses, butin time valuable assistance is expected from this source.ELIZA E. LEONARD, M.D., Dean.THE HACKETT MEDICAL COLLEGE FOR WOMEN, CANTON.Just after Chinese New Year, 1901, the medicalschool for women, called the Kwong Tung, was opened inthe first floor of the Theodore Cuyler (First Presbyterian) Church, Canton. Nine students were admitted.The following year the David Gregg Hospital forWomen and Children was opened, and the young womenstudents were temporarily removed to the third floor ofthisbuilding.In 1902, December, the first building, for distinctivecollege use, was finished. It contained recitation andreception rooms on the second floor, bed rooms on thethird. To this the students gladly removed.This large three-story building was the gift of Mr.E. A. K. Hackett, of Indiana, United States of America.