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In their Curriculum;

Sixth:- The immediate authority that manages and controls them, respectively state, corporation or individuals; who has the visitorial power, to whom they report, and where is lodged the power of settling disputes among faculty, trustees or regents;

Seventh:- The qualification for the admission of students, the term of study preceding graduation, the expense of attendance per annum, etc.

Eighth:- The medical department; its divisions; clinical rooms, lecture rooms; medical, anatomo-pathological, orthopedical, surgical, anatomical, zoological, comparative-anatomical and different other museums; arrangement of dissecting rooms, museums, and labratories for teaching other important branches of the medical science, without which knowledge it is utterly impossible to become a good physician, and which branches are greatly neglected, or not taught at all in the medical schools of our city.

Ninth:- The philosophical, chemical and astronomical apparatus of each and the plan and facilities characterizing the administration of the same.

Tenth:- To report the prevailing opinions of the advanced thinkers, philosophers, teachers and scholars upon the new and mooted questions of the day, and amny more matters in the same line of inquiry which will suggest themselves to your minds.

Much of the knowledge proposed to be obtained by such inquiry and report would be useful if not indispensable in framing the plan and fixing the relative locality of the buildings you propose to erect.

With the best ability, advantage and zeal in one intrusted with this great mission, it would require some time to gather the information, and in order to avoid missteps, the inquiry should commence as soon as possible among the schools, academies, conservatories, polytechnical high-schools, agronomical institutions, universities, etc., of the world, as for instance, those of Paris,