had to be quarantined and surgical work discontinued, or the lives of patients would have been seriously endangered. The Announcement published a short time before October, 1894, contained the statement: “In the coming session … the seniors and juniors will have no didactic lectures in common, separate courses being given to each class.” The lectures on obstetrics were then concentrated in the junior year, and the theoretical work in gynecology was given in the senior year. In 1894 the courses were further compressed, the theoretical work in obstetrics being given only for secondsemester juniors and the general lectures in gynecology being given only for firstsemester seniors. Throughout the early period juniors and seniors attended at least some of the clinical demonstrations in gynecology together, but the methods course preparatory to actual case work continued to be given in the junior year. In 1894-95 each student was required to devote 382 hours to obstetrics and gynecology, in addition to the indefinite time needed for attending cases in the lying-in room (Med. Ann., 1894-95, p. 32); 192 hours were spent at classroom lectures, 128 hours at “clinical lectures,” 32 hours in recitations, and 30 hours in studying methods of diagnosis and the use of instruments. The required work remained essentially the same until 1900, except for the addition of a few hours for the study of diagnosis and of the use of instruments. In 1900-1901, Martin’s general lecture courses, including recitations, required only sixty-four hours in the junior year and sixty-four hours in the senior year; the junior methods course, conducted by his assistant, required thirty-six hours; and the clinical work in gynecology, again scheduled for seniors only, required 180 hours in all. The afternoon gynecological clinics were held, as before; in addition, since 1899, there had been several short morning clinics each week in gynecology. Word came in the spring of 1898 that the University might receive, “subject to certain charges,” the bulk of the estate of Dr. Elizabeth H. Bates, of Port Chester, New York, for a professorship to be “known and called the Bates Professorship of the Diseases of Women and Children,” provided the Obstetrics and Gynecology (1942) 13 University admitted women to its Medical Department and gave them the same educational advantages as it gave male students. President Angell estimated that the legacy would yield at least $100,000. Within two years, however, the Bates property in the University’s possession was worth more than $133,000, and by 1940 the principal derived from it was valued at $137,000. President Angell wrote: It does not appear that our benefactor ever visited the University. So far as we can learn, she was moved to remember us in this generous manner by the fact that this University was one of the first to offer medical education to women. She wished to testify her appreciation of the service thus rendered to her sex, and to enlarge our facilities for medical education. (R.P., 1896-1901, p. 312.) The Regents voted in May, 1898, to accept the gift and comply with the conditions laid down; in June they established the new professorship and gave the medical faculty the task of suggesting a suitable person to hold it. The old custom of combining the teaching of gynecology with that of children’s diseases had still been widespread when the Bates will had been drawn up in 1890, but even then this custom had been falling into obsolescence at the University, and by 1898 the medical faculty apparently had no intention of permanently reestablishing it. The report of the faculty’s views on the best disposition of the gift was made to the Regents orally, but the following statement in the Announcement for 1898-99 (p. 6) throws some light on faculty opinion: In accordance with another provision of the will it is proposed that the title of Elizabeth H. Bates Professor of Diseases of Women and Children be given to Dr. James N. Martin. (The didactic and clinical work in connection with children’s diseases will be in charge of the chair of Theory and Practice of Medicine, as heretofore.) It is also proposed that the income from the bequest be allowed to accumulate, and that when a sufficient fund has been acquired a ward be built for sick children, as a memorial of the donor. During the summer the Board’s main concern in connection 14 Obstetrics and Gynecology with the bequest was a legal struggle for the property, certain relatives of Dr. Bates having contested her will. By November, 1898, a court decision affirming the validity of the will had been rendered; still, the Bates chair remained unoccupied throughout the session of 1898-99. Finally, at the Regents’ meeting of September, 1899, “the Chair of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women, in the Department of Medicine and Surgery was abolished, and James N. Martin (Hillsdale ’80, Ph.M. hon. ibid. ’83, Michigan ’83m) was appointed to the chair of the Bates Professorship of the Diseases of Women and Children at a salary of $2,000″ (R.P., 1896-1901, p. 415). The Board’s intentions with respect to the teaching were made clear a month later, when the following resolutions were adopted: Resolved, That the duties of Dr. Martin, Professor of the Bates chair, Diseases of Women and Children, remain the same as before, with the addition of Diseases of Women. Resolved, That the