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bachelor's degree at an earlier age who have 

 become pathologists than those who have be- 

 come anatomists or botanists. The chemists 

 have received the doctor's degree at the earli- 

 est age and the anatomists and botanists at 

 the latest. The mathematicians have received 

 the doctorate at exactly the average age, not 

 earlier, as the writer would have anticipated. 

 In the different sciences there are decided 

 differences in the proportion of those who 

 have received academic degrees. Only half 

 the pathologists have the bachelor's degree and 

 one twelfth the doctorate of philosophy, their 



men the earlier the age. Those in the first 

 hundred have received both the bachelor's and 

 the doctor's degree at the earliest age, the 

 former 0.6 and the latter 1.5 years below the 

 average. The second hundred are the next 

 youngest, the ages for the two degrees being 

 0.3 and 1.1 below the average. Those in the 

 lower two hundred were 0.6 year older than 

 the average in receiving the first degree and 

 0.8 year older in the case of the second de- 

 gree. There is no correlation between stand- 

 ing and the possession of one or the other of 

 the degrees. 



TABLE VIII. OCCUPATION OF THE THOUSAND MEN OF SCIENCE ACCORDING TO SCIENCE AND TO POSITION 



education having been in the medical school. 

 Of 50 psychologists 46 hold the bachelor's and 

 37 the doctor's degree. The doctor's degree is 

 held by nearly two thirds of the zoologists, 

 while it is held by less than half the geologists 

 and less than a third of the astronomers. 



There is a small but definite correlation be- 

 tween standing and the age at which the men 

 received their degrees the more eminent the 



Our thousand leading men of science are 

 occupied as shown in Table VIII. 738. 5 T are 

 engaged in teaching, or have been so engaged, 

 and now fill administrative educational posi- 

 tions or have retired from active service. 

 Nearly three quarters of our scientific men 



* The decimal here and elsewhere refers to a 

 man who gives part of his time to teaching or to 

 the institution to which he is credited. 



