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NA TURE 



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the year 18S4 the University counted 858 matriculated , the library, which was 1,785,000 francs (,£71,400). There 

 students, of whom but 266 were from Alsace-Lorraine. ' is also an annual endowment of 1,087,227 francs (,£43,000) 

 We may complete these statistical details by recalling ! for the maintenance of the University, and one of 150,000 

 how, since the annexation, the sum devoted to the outfit francs (.£6,000) for that of the library, both charged to the 

 of the University of Strasburg has amounted to 16,000,000 ' Imperial budget, to meet the current necessities, in addi- 

 francs (,£640,000), without reckoning the value of the tion to the income derived from older special endow- 

 establishments of the ancient Academic, or the cost of ments. 



Fig. 2 —The Collegiate Palace : Salle des Pas-Perdus 



The cuts which illustrate the different establishments of 

 the University, and which convey better than any mere 

 description some faint sense of the scale on which this 

 work has been done, and for which we have to thank the 

 kind attention of M. Schricker, secretary of the Senate of 

 the University, were prepared from photographs taken to 

 accompany a memorial document published at Strasburg 

 in 1884 zntiW&dFestsc/irift rjur Einweihung der Neubauten 



der Kaiser- Wilkelms Universitat. The buildings at pre- 

 sent finished are spread in two great groups around the 

 civil hospital and in the new quarter of the town now 

 rising between the Promenade des Contades and the 

 Porte des Pecheurs ; the latter being outside the line of 

 fortifications demolished in 1871. It may be remembered 

 that Strasburg now covers within its new fortifications an 

 area thrice as great as that of the old city before its 



Fig. 3.— The Collegiate Palace: Plan of Ground Floor— i, Entry.— 2, •;, 4. Central Gallery.— 5, 6, Corridors.— 7, Salle des Pas-Perdus.— 8, 9, Side Staircases. 

 10, 11, University Counting House.— 12, 13, Rooms for Meetings of Faculties— 14, Rector's Room.— 15, Rector's Antechamber.— 16, Secretary of the 

 University.— 17, Secretary of the Senate.— 18, Senate Hall.— 19, Antechamber of Senate.— 20, Room for Musical reunions.— 21, Music Hall.— 

 22, Curator's Office — 23, Secretary of Curator.— 24, Curator's Room. — 25, Curator's Antechamber. — 26, Store Room. — 27, Class Room. — 28 to 30, 

 Theological Seminary— 31, Class Room— 32, Reading Room— 33, Ante-room.— 34, Cloak-room —37 to 40, Lecture and Class Rooms.— 41, Store 

 Room.— 42, 43, Class Rooms. — 44 to 46, Seminary of Mathematics. — 47 to 54. Lecture and Class Room. — 55, Professor's Parlour. — 56557, Lavatories. 

 &c. — 58, janitor. 



annexation to Germany : and its population was 104,000 

 at the census of 1880. 



It will take you half-an-hour to walk from the medical 

 institutes, grouped around the square of the civil hospital, 

 across the old streets, which still preserve the primitive 

 appearance and the characteristic marks of mediaeval 

 German cities, to the new collegiate palace. As you cross 



from the Kaiserplatz towards the 111, there rises before you 

 the facade of the collegiate palace, built in sandstone from 

 the Vosges (Fig. 1). This is, properly speaking, the chief 

 building of the University, the various institutes being so 

 many annexes. The palace is a very fine building, in the 

 style of the Renaissance, with simple lines, standing behind 

 a square with fountains and gardens. The plan is of an 



