The buildings of the new Medical School, situated on a plot of 26 acres, bounded by Longwood avenue, Huntington avenue, and Villa street, Brookline, are now about two-thirds completed, and will be ready for occupation by the first of January, 1906. Although, owing to difficulty in procuring sufficiently large block of marble, the work has been somewhat delayed, the walls and roofs of all the building-except the Administration building and the power house are now finished.

Work on the building for the Departments of Pharmacology and Hygiene is almost completed. The interior finishing, however, will not be done until spring, as the walls are not now sufficiently dry. The building next nearest to completion is that for the Departments of Bacteriology and Pathology, in which all the partitions are built and the plumbing and heating systems are installed. In the building for the Physiology and Physiological Chemistry Departments, the concrete floors are all set, and the plumbing and ventilating pipes are being set up. The building for Anatomy and Histology is about equally far along in construction, and further work on the Administration building has been deferred until spring.

Each building is composed of two wings joined by an amphitheatre and is equipped with interior partitions so arranged that they can be moved without weakening the structure, thus making it possible to vary the size of the different rooms.

Foundations for the power house, situated on Villa street, 500 feet north of the main building, are laid, the three boilers are ready to be tested and bricked in, and all but 12 feet of the chimney is built. The building is to be of red brick trimmed with granite and limestone, except the engine room, which will be of face brick and brownstone.

A concrete tunnel, 8 feet square and about 10 feet under ground, to carry the pipes for the heating system, has been built from the power house to the Chemical building.

Considerable ground near the buildings has been reserved for the various hospitals affiliated with the School which have been proposed. As yet, however, no work on these has been done, as the Brigham Hospitals has been delayed by litigation and the Children's Hospital by lack of funds. Plans for the Infants' hospital are being drawn by Dr. T. M. Rotch '70, and work on the building will probably begin during the summer.