132 ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
L'Université de Paris et les établissements Parisiens d'enseignement 
supérieur. Livret de l'étudiant, published by the Bureau des renseigne- 
ments at the Sorbonne. 
Annuaire de la jeunesse, of H. Vuibert. 
Other authorities are indicated in Appendix C. 
Interesting comment may be found in Klein’s Vorträge über den 
mathematischen Unterricht an den hôheren Schulen (1907), and in Klein’s 
Elementar Mathematik vom hôheren Standpunkte aus—Teil II: Geometrie 
(1909. Pp. 456-77: “Unterricht in Frankreich”). 
It is with great pleasure that I have also to acknowledge my in- 
debtedness to a very large number of friends, acquaintances and officials 
in the Sorbonne, the Ecole Normale Supérieure, the Ecole Polytechnique, 
in the lycées and in the different departments of the ministère de 
l'instruction publique. The invariable courtesy and obliging readiness 
to place all possible material at my disposal, which my innumerable 
inquiries called forth, constitute a very pleasant memory, among the 
many, of a delightful year. 
Paris, May 2, 1910. 
[After my paper had been written, I saw, by chance, a reprint of an interesting 
article, with the same title as this, published by Professor Pierpont about ten years ago, 
in the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. It suggested several improve- 
ments (in connection with questions of form and fuller development) which were then 
made in my paper. Concerning recent literature reference may be given to: “ France 
as a Field for American Students” by 8. Newcomb (Forum, xxiii., 320-326, May 1897. 
French translation, Revue Internationale de l'Enseignement, xxxiv., 20-27, July 1897. 
Cf. also Nation, Ixiii., 400-01, Nov. 26, 1896) — The chapter on “ The Universities” in 
B. Wendell’s “ The France of To-day ”’ (second edition, 1908)-——“ Life at the Sorbonne ” 
by H. Jones (Nation, xci., 576-7, Dec. 15, 1910).] 
