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sending less than fifty students each. 

 Among European countries the twenty-one 

 universities of the United States lead only 

 in Denmark (12 vs. 11), the American 

 figures in European countries mentioned 

 above being in every case far below the 

 German figures, namely Russia 44, Aus- 

 tria-Hungary 11, Switzerland 7, Bulgaria 

 5, Great Britain and Ireland 61, Rumania 

 2, Greece 4, Servia and Luxemburg and 

 Turkey 38. Almost a third of the foreign 

 students in attendance on German univer- 

 sities are at the University of Beiiin, 

 namely, 1,492 out of 4,672. Berlin is fol- 

 lowed by the following universities in the 

 order given: Munich 845, Leipzig 634, 

 Halle 285, Heidelberg 186, Eonigsberg 

 185 (of whom 179 hail from Russia), Got- 

 tingen 141, Freiburg 127, Jena 119, Boom 

 117, Breslau 107, Strassburg 105, the re- 

 maining institutions all attracting less than 

 one hundred foreigners each. Figured on 

 a percentage basis we find that 8.5 per 

 cent, of Germany's 54,823 university stu- 

 dents are foreigners, whereas only 2.1 per 

 cent, of 74,325 students attending the 

 twenty-one American universities men- 

 tioned hail from foreign countries. It 

 should be borne in mind that the American 

 institutions in every ■ instance include an 

 undergraduate academic department and 

 in most instances a technical school, which 

 is not the case for the German universities, 

 but the comparison here outlined undoubt- 

 edly conveys a fairly accurate idea of the 

 situation. 



Of the three middle western universities 

 that were included in the table for 1904-5, 

 Illinois shows a gain in students from for- 

 eign countries during the six years of 120, 

 Michigan of 62 and Indiana a loss of 3, 

 while the total increase in foreign students 

 during the same period at the nine univer- 

 sities included in the above table amounts 

 to 460. 



Examining the foreign delegations of 

 the different American institutions by con- 

 tinents, we observe that the order in North 

 America is Columbia, Pennsylvania, Har- 

 vard, Cornell; in South America: Penn- 

 sylvania, Cornell, Massachusetts Institute 

 of Technology, Michigan; in Europe: 

 Pennsylvania, Columbia and Harvard, 

 Illinois; in Asia: California, Columbia, 

 Illinois, Cornell; in Africa: Cornell, 

 Northwestern and Pennsylvania; and in 

 Australasia : Pennsylvania, Northwestern. 

 In the countries that send at least ten 

 students to any one institution, the order 

 is as follows: Canada: Columbia, Harvard, 

 Northwestern; Central America: Pennsyl- 

 vania, Cornell, Massachiisetts Institute of 

 Technology; Cuba: Cornell, Pennsylvania, 

 Syracuse; Mexico : Illinois, Pennsylvania, 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 

 Germany: Columbia, Harvard and Penn- 

 sylvania; Great Britain and Ireland: 

 Pennsylvania, Columbia and Illinois and 

 Bryn Mawr; Russia: Illinois, Northwest- 

 ern, California and Harvard; China: Cor- 

 nell, Columbia and Illinois, Wisconsin; 

 India: California, Harvard, Northwestern; 

 Japan: California, Columbia, Illinois; 

 Turkey : Yale, Illinois, Columbia; and Aus- 

 tralia : Pennsylvania, Northwestern. 



Rudolf Tombo, Je. 



Columbia University 



TEE SMITSSONIAN EXPEDITION TO 

 STVDT THE HEAT OF THE SUN 



Director Abbot, of the Smithsonian Astro- 

 physical Observatory, has just returned from 

 a five months' astronomical expedition to 

 Bassour, Algeria. The object of the expedi- 

 tion -was to confirm or disprove the supposed 

 variability of the sun. The Astrophysical 

 Observatory has been for seven years making 

 observations on Mt. Wilson, in California, on 

 the daily quantity of heat received from the 

 sun. The observations are arranged in such 

 a manner as to indicate not only the quantity 



