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burg laboratory is devoted to organic and inorganic chemistry 

 exclusively. To build it to-day in Cambridge would cost 

 about $300,000. Allowing for difference in cost of construc- 

 tion, either of these cases indicates that the Prussian govern- 

 ment would, in a case like Harvard's, devote about $1,000,- 

 000 to the construction of chemical laboratories. 



Not less significant are the yearly budgets of some of the 

 European universities. In Berlin the chemical laboratory 

 above mentioned has from the government 80,000 marks a 

 year for running expenses, the physico-chemical laboratory 

 20,000 marks. These sums are in no part derived from tui- 

 tion fees, but are direct subsidies. Together with the similar 

 appropriations for the other chemical laboratories of the uni- 

 versity and the technical school they certainly exceed 150,000 

 marks yearly. 1 



In Berlin the physical laboratory receives 33,000 marks a 

 year. The university library has 121,000 marks, which is not 

 more than three fourths the sum devoted to all the chemical 

 laboratories of the university and the technical school, and 

 only fifty per cent more than the sum devoted to one of 

 them. 



In Leipsic the three chemical laboratories have 80,000 

 marks a year for running expenses, the physical laboratory 

 only about 27,000 marks. 



In Strassburg the chemical laboratory has 34,000 marks 

 a year, the physical laboratory 14,000 marks; the library, 

 which serves both university and province (Alsace-Lorraine), 

 has about 72,000 marks. If one assigns one half of this library 

 budget to the university and one half to the province, it ap- 

 pears that a chemical laboratory which is dealing with only 

 two of the important divisions of chemistry and has but one 



1 The Harvard laboratory has from the Corporation approximately $900 yearly 

 for running expenses. Other sources of income are similar in the two countries. 



