London.

MEDICAL SCHOOLS.  The opening of the post-graduate schools this session has shown a very considerable falling off in the expected attendance. The London School of Tropical Medicine, in spite of the great public interest taken in it, and the dramatic developments in the past few months in our knowledge of the diseases which it has designed to study, has a class of not more than twelve or fifteen. And much the same state of affairs is reported from both the Polyclinic and the West London Post-Graduate School. And the list of entries in the under-graduate schools appears to show a distinct though less noticeable. falling off. The only cause which seems to have been suggested for its shrinkage is the general unsettlement in things medical produced by the war. But while this would obviously account for much shrinkage in the post-graduate classes, it would certainly not apply with equal force