§ MR. COZENS-HARDY (Norfolk, N.)asked the Vice President of the Committee of Council, Whether a special arrangement has been recently made, between the Secretary of the Science and Art Department and the Medical Schools of certain Hospitals in London, by which the medical students from those schools are to be transferred to the Science School at South Kensington for certain scientific classes at special fees?
§ DR. FARQUHARSON (Aberdeenshire, W.)inquired whether it was not the fact that medical students enjoyed the right of attending science classes in Government schools?
§ THE VICE PRESIDENT (Sir LYON PLAYFAIR) (Leeds, S.)I have to reply to the hon. Member for North Norfolk that in acceding to a request made and initiated by a Joint Committee of the four unendowed hospitals—namely, Charing Cross, Middlesex, St. George's, and Westminster—an arrangement has been made by the Secretary of the Science and Art Department, with the sanction of the Lord President and myself, for the admission of certain students from their Medical Schools to that part of the courses which is limited to elementary instruction in Biology, Physics, and Chemistry at the Normal School of Science at South Kensington. The only thing special in regard to the fees was that they were slightly raised; for whereas for the elementary instruction in Biology, Physics, and Chemistry the annual fee is £50, the medical students will have to pay for two terms of instruction in these subjects not £33 but £35, with about £3 in addition for apparatus. In answer to the Question of my hon. 1124 Friend the Member for West Aberdeenshire, medical students have attended science classes in the Government School for the last 20 years, and care has always been taken that the fees charged should not be so low as to compete with private schools.