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of the rural population, 28.3 per cent., while 

 the percentages 45 years and over are 18.3 and 

 28.Y, respectively. The large number of chil- 

 dren in families of foreign origin may account 

 for the fact that the proportion of children 

 under 5 is greater in the urban population 

 than in the rural. 



The Census Bureau classifies as illiterate any 

 person 10 years of age or over who is unable to 

 write, regardless of ability to read. There are 

 406,020 illiterates in the state, representing 

 5.5 per cent, of the total population 10 years 

 of age and over, the percentage being the same 

 as in 1900. The percentage of illiteracy is 



13.7 among foreign-born whites, 5 among ne- 

 groes, and 0.8 among native whites. For all 

 classes combined, the percentage of illiterates 

 is 5.9 in urban communities and 3.9 in rural, 

 but for each class separately the rural percent- 

 age exceeds the urban. For persons from 10 

 to 20 years of age, inclusive, whose literacy de- 

 pends largely upon present school facilities 

 and school attendance, the percentage of illit- 

 eracy is 2.1. 



In the population 15 years of age and over 



39.8 per cent, of the males are single and 33.7 

 per cent, of the females. The percentage mar- 

 ried is 55.2 for males and 54.5 for females, and 

 the percentage widowed is 4.4 and 11.3 re- 

 spectively. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 The council of the British Association for 

 tlie Advancement of Science has nominated 

 Sir Oliver Lodge to be president for the Bir- 

 mingham meeting in place of the late Sir 

 William White. 



A PORTRAIT of Sir William Turner, K.C.B., 

 principal and vice-chancellor of Edinburgh 

 University and professor of anatomy from 

 1867 to 1903, has been presented to the uni- 

 versity. The portrait is the work of Sir 

 James Guthrie. The ceremony took place in 

 the library of the old university, Mr. Balfour, 

 chancellor of the university, presiding. Sir 

 Eobert Finlay, K.C., M.P., made the presenta- 

 tion and Mr. Balfour accepted the portrait on 

 behalf of the upiversity. 



Dr. E. W. Hilgard, emeritus professor of 

 agriculture at the University of California, is 

 recovering from severe injuries received a few 

 weeks ago, when a flight of steps which he 

 was ascending gave way, throwing him to the 

 floor. The broken bones are uniting and it 

 is hoped that he wiU soon be able to resume 

 his writing, which was interrupted by the 

 accident. 



At the ceremonies connected with the open- 

 ing of the Phipps Psychiatric Clinic of the 

 Johns Hopkins University Hospital, begin- 

 ning on April 16, addresses will be given by Sir 

 William Osier and Professor William Mc- 

 DougaU, of Oxford; Frederick W. Mott, 

 F.E.S., of London; Professor Heilbronner, of 

 Utrecht; Professor Bleuler, of Zurich, and 

 Professor Orovino Eossi, of Italy. 



On the nomination of the council of the 

 University of Paris, M. Jean Perrin, professor 

 of physical chemistry in the University of 

 Paris, has been appointed visiting French pro- 

 fessor at Columbia University for 1913-14. 



Sir Cecil H. Smith, director of the Vic- 

 toria and Albert Museum, and Dr. E. H. 

 Starling, F.E.S., professor of physiology in 

 the University of London, have been elected 

 members of the Athenaeum Club, London, 

 under the rule which empowers the annual 

 election of three persons " of distinguished 

 eminence in science, literature, the arts, or 

 for public service." 



At the dinner of the Chicago Medical So- 

 ciety on February 26 Dr. Abraham Jacobi, 

 New York City, and Dr. Edward Martin, 

 Philadelphia, were the guests of honor. 



A RECEPTION was given by the Manhattan 

 Medical Society on February 28 to Dr. Jacques 

 Loeb, of the Eockefeller Institute, at which he 

 spoke on " Some Eecent Experiments in Arti- 

 ficial Parthenogenesis." 



Mr. John J. Schoonhoven, president of the 

 department of zoology of the Brooklyn Insti- 

 tute, has been made a fellow of the institute. 



The Eev. A. H. Cooke, known for his work 

 on molluscs, has succeeded Mr. E. Bullen 

 Newton as president of the Malacological 

 Society of London. 



