Before it was established as a school for medical training of undergraduates, the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland was engaged solely in the training of postgraduates. In the middle of the 19th century it joined with University College Dublin and became a school of medicine in its own right. It is now branching out into areas which in recent years have met public demand in the whole area of physiotherapy, for example, in respect of which degree course last autumn it held its first graduation ceremony. Last autumn also saw the establishment of its school of pharmacy which was urgently needed as prior to that the only such school was the one located in Trinity College. Even with an additional three or four schools, we still would not have enough places for the number of undergraduates who want to do pharmacology.