Editorial Notes

New Arrangements for Clinical Teaching in the Royal Infirmary. By .111 agreement recently come to between the University Court and the Managers of the Royal Infirmary, changes have been effected which we do not hesitate to say mark one of the greatest advances that hare been made in the arrangements for clinical teaching in the history of the Edinburgh Medical School. The time was ripe for such a change, and a careful study of the agreement leaves the impression that the parties have approached the question with the single object of providing a scheme of clinical instruction which, without breaking from the best traditions of the school, will be fully abreast of modern requirements. It is not necessary to have been behind the scenes to appreciate the difficulties which faced each of the parties to such an agreement. When we bear in mind that on each side vested interests, traditions, and questions of patronage had to be respected and important financial matters adjusted, it is easy to realise that success was only possible by the exercise of much reciprocal conciliation in an earnest endeavour to settle matters equitably and with good judgment. That this was the spirit which animated all concerned is evident on the face of the