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We have also been gratified by hearing that a lady will be a candidate for Marylebone.
EDINBURGH. - The elections in Scotland for the Boards of Managers, the equivalent for .Boards of Guardians, take place earlier than those in England. We have the gratifying intelligence that nine ladies have ·been again elected without a contest in Edinburgh. Miss Robertson was compelled to retire in th& City Ward, owing to the pressure of Temperance and other work, but another lady, Mrs. Peterson, came forward in her place. The Lady Guardians are now aa follows: City Parish, three : Miss Phoobe Blyth, Mrs. Bow, Mrs. Peterson. St. Cuthbert's Parisl~, siz: Miss. Louisa Stevenson, Mrs. Jane Millar, Mias Mary Burton, Mrs. Foster, Mrs. Brown, and Miss Ellen DougalL
Two very important steps have taken place within the last few weeks with reference to the medical education of women. The Irish College of Surgeons, which last year decided to follow the example of its sister College of Physicians, and to throw open its examinations and diplomas to women, has more recently taken a step still further in advance by opening to women all its classes, arrangements being made for separate studyin practical anatomy only. Within thelast week the "triple qualification" of the Scotch Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons has also been thrown open to women, so that there is every prospect that the reproach brought on Edinburgh by the conduct of its University in 1869-73 will be now wiped off by the more enlightened action of the Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons of Edinburgh and Glasgow. It is hoped
