THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE. 



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4S.271 were of post-nuptial conception, 

 22,094 of anti-nuptial conception and 

 24,343 illegitimate. The gradual de- 

 cline of the birth rate in France and 

 other countries may be attributed 

 plausibly in part at least to physiolog- 

 ical infertility, but the sudden change 

 in New South Wales in the course of 

 ten years can not be so explained. 



NEW ACADEMIC BUILDIXGS. 



American universities and colleges 

 are more likely to lack men and en- 

 dowments than buildings. While the 

 salaries of college teachers have re- 

 mained about stationary and have 

 really become smaller, in view of the 

 increased cost of living and the more 

 complicated social conditions due to 

 larger earnings in other professions. 

 buildings are being continually erected 



on all sides. And the buildings are cer- 

 tainly welcome. The high school is 

 likely to occupy the most imposing 

 building, except perhaps banks and 

 offices, in each town. The school, col- 

 lege and university express in material 

 form the civic pride of the people some- 

 what as did formerly the church or 

 cathedral. 



We reproduce here illustrations of 

 two of the buildings recently erected 

 for the physical sciences. The Engi- 

 neering Hall of Washington and Lee 

 University is the gift of Mr. William 

 H. Reid of Chicago. It is of colonial 

 style, in keeping with that of the cen- 

 tral university building, of brick with 

 stone trimmings, a hundred feet in 

 length, with an average width of fifty- 

 six feet. The ground floor is used by 

 the department of civil engineering 

 with an electrical laboratory; the sec- 



Engineering Hall of Washington and Lee University. 



