August 20, 1909] 



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the United States/ who mostly received the 

 doctor's degree prior to or at the begin- 

 ning of the period covered by these statis- 

 tics. The numbers are: Johns Hopkins, 

 102 ; Harvard, 57 ; Columbia, 38 ; Yale, 28 ; 

 Cornell, 26 ; Chicago, 23 ; Pennsylvania, 12. 



Economics 



English 



History 



Philosophy 



German 



Romance Languages.. 



Greek 



Latin 



Oriental 



Education 



Political Science 



Sociology 



Theology 



Law 



Music 



Total. 



Total for 

 two years 



383 



In the third table is given the distribu- 

 tion of the degrees among the different sub- 

 jects. Chemistry, as always, is at the head 



' Cf. Science for December 7, 1906. 



of the list, but shows some decrease. Zool- 

 ogy and mathematics are also somewhat 

 below their average, whereas physics and 

 psychology are above; but such changes 

 from year to year are not significant. A 

 real tendency may, however, be indicated 

 by the increased number of degrees in 

 physiology, bacteriology, pathology, agri- 

 culture and anthropology. 



The institutions which this year con- 

 ferred two or more degrees in a science 

 are: in chemistry, Tale, 7; Cornell and 

 Johns Hopkins, 6 each; Harvard and 

 Pennsylvania, 5 each; Columbia', 4; in 

 physics, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Pennsyl- 

 vania and Yale, 3 each; California and 

 Michigan, 2 each; in zoology, Columbia, 5; 

 Harvard, 4 ; Chicago, 3 ; Johns Hopkins, 2 ; 

 in psych ology, Clark, 4 ; Columbia and Cor- 

 nell, 3 each ; Chicago and Harvard, 2 each ; 

 in mathematics, Johns Hopkins and Yale, 

 3 each; Chicago, Columbia and Harvard, 



2 each; in botany, Chicago, 4; Cornell, 3; 

 .Michigan, 2 ; in geology, Chicago and Yale, 



3 each ; Cornell, Johns Hopkins and Mich- 

 igan, 2 each; in physiology, Yale, 6; 

 Columbia and Johns Hopkins, 2 each; in 

 astronomy, California, Chicago and Indi- 

 ana, 2 each ; in anthropology, Clark, 3 ; in 

 agriculture, Cornell, 5; in mineralogy, 

 Columbia, 2. In other subjects, Columbia 

 leads with 13 degrees in the political sci- 

 ences. Harvard gave 8 and Columbia 6 

 degrees in English. The only other in- 

 stance in which more than four degrees 

 were given by a department was of five 

 degrees in German at Chicago. 



The names of those on whom the degree 

 was conferred in the natural and exact 

 sciences, with the subjects of their theses, 

 are as follows: 



TALE UNIVERSITY 



Isaiah Bowman : " The Geography of the Cen- 

 tral Andes." 



