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scattered as formerly, though its volume re- 
mains large. During the last convocation 
week the American Association for the Ad- 
vancement of Science was spared somewhat 
by the fact that most of the geneticists met 
in a city apart. Thus we venture the hope 
that in due time the segregation may become 
so complete that scientists may be free to pe- 
ruse their favorite journals without risk of 
that offense to the finer sensibilities which 
results from seeing familiar words or char- 
acters abused. Cart §. ScoriELD 
LANHAM, MD., 
February 18, 1912 
UNIVERSITY REGISTRATION 
To tHe Epiror or Scrence: Information 
received from the registrar of the University 
of Nebraska after the university registration 
statistics printed in the issue of Scimnce for 
January 5, 1912, had gone to press, increase 
the enrollment of that institution as of No- 
vember 1, 1911, from 2,733 to 3,459, as against 
3,661 on November 1, 1910. The decrease is 
due to the fact that the affiliation relations of 
the university with the conservatory of music, 
which had existed for a number of years, were 
severed during the summer of 1911. The gain 
in attendance on the other departments was 
not large enough to offset the loss in music 
students. 
In the net total registration of 4,889 stu- 
dents at Cornell University (excluding the 
summer session) there were included 477 stu- 
dents in the 1911 short-course in agriculture. 
These students are not in attendance at the 
university this academic year, although ap- 
proximately that number of students are en- 
rolled in the 1912 winter course. If these stu- 
dents are excluded from the Cornell registra- 
tion, the winter attendance would be 4,412, 
instead of 4,889. 
As for the figures of the University of Min- 
nesota, in connection with which an explana- 
tion was given in a footnote, the situation is 
as follows: It has been customary for a long 
time to include in the total registration of the 
university the registration of the School of 
agriculture, which is to be distinguished 
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sharply from the College of agriculture, the 
latter being of collegiate grade, while the 
school has a three-year course of secondary 
grade. The students in attendance on the 
school, therefore, while not technically pre- 
paratory students in the sense that they are 
being fitted for college work, should really be 
classed as preparatory students—in any event 
they can not logically be regarded as college 
students. Subtracting from 4,307 students re- 
corded as being in attendance at the univer- 
sity on November 1, 1911 (including the 
summer session), the 775 students in the 
school of agriculture, leaves a balance of 3,532 
students of collegiate and university grade. 
The figures for the Harvard School (787) 
included only the students in the summer 
courses in arts and sciences. There are, in 
addition, 278 students in science in the sum- 
mer school of dental medicine. The total 
summer attendance thus becomes 1,065. Of 
these 115 students returned for work in the 
fall, the net total attendance at Harvard, in- 
clusive of the summer session, thus being 
5,674 instead of 5,426. 
The University of Cincinnati submitted a 
table showing that its enrollment in all facul- 
ties on November 1, 1911, was 1,324 students, 
as against 1,416 on November 1, 1910, 1,364 
on November 1, 1908, and 1,068 on November 
1, 1908. 
Taking account of these revisions, the net 
total attendance of 28 American universities 
as of November 1, 1911, including the summer 
session, but making due allowance for the 
summer session students who returned in the 
fall, is given in the following list. 
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