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total attendance has grown over 90 per cent. (The 

 straight line indicates what the growth would have been 

 at the population-rate.) The growth in Edinburgh is 

 greatest, and the other Universities follow in the above 



order. Nos. 2 and 3 indicate how the students have 

 been distributed among the different Faculties. The 

 preponderance of arts students in Glasgow, and of medi- 

 cal in Edinburgh, will be noted.^ As regards theology, 



Fig. 2.— G'a gow Un!versliy. Students in different Faculties (19 years). 



F'g- 3- — Edinburgh University. Students in different Faculties (12 years). 



it is to be remembered that the students are only those 

 of the Established Church ; the two other large Presby- 

 terian bodies having their own theological schools. (The 

 statistics are taken from Oliver and Boyd's " New Edin- 

 burgh Almanac," and the numbers of students at each 



University include those of the summer as well as the 

 winter session.) A. B. M. 



' It is right to state that in the recent cla'^sification ot Glasgow students 

 a small proportion are given as " Arts and Medicine," " Arts and Law," &e. 

 These we have included as " Arts " students only. 



