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SGIENGE. 



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Paris is Mons. G. Ballej'guier, architect, 

 238, Boulevard St. Germain ; and the repre- 

 sentative of the organization in the United 

 States is Dr. J. C. Van Eyck, Century 

 Club, liew York. 



GENERAL INFORMATION FOB STUDENTS. 



The following information is given con- 

 cerning the admission of foreign students 

 into the faculties and schools of France : 



Instruction is absolutely gratuitous in 

 the universities and faculties of France. 

 They are open without reserve to strangers 

 as well as to native students, and the 

 grades established are the same for each. 

 It is required, however, that both foreign 

 and native students should give evidence 

 of certain preliminary study. In the case 

 of the French student this consists in the 

 presentation of a bachelor's diploma certi- 

 fying that courses of secondary instruction 

 of a given nature have been completed. 

 Strangers who have obtained from institu- 

 tions in their own country certificates of 

 instruction are admitted after a ruling shall 

 have been made by the Minister based upon 

 the advice of the proper section of the Advi- 

 sory Committee on Public Instruction, whose 

 duty it is to ascertain the actual value of 

 the certificate offered. This is rendered 

 necessary by the fact that the certificates 

 of study in France and in foreign countries 

 are not always equivalent in value.* 



The requirements in connection with ob- 

 taining degrees in the courses of higher in- 

 structions are the following : Matriculation, 

 access to the library, privileges of practical 

 work (only in the faculties of medicine and 

 the schools of pharmacy), examination, cer- 

 tificate of proficiency, and diploma. The 



* Graduates of foreign universities who desire to 

 enter the courses of the faculties should address an 

 application to the Minister of Public Instruction, ac- 

 companied by (1) the original diplomas, with a re- 

 quest that their equivalence in France be deter- 

 mined, and that they be approved ; (2) a certificate 

 of birth (original and translation). 



fees for matriculation are 30 francs quar- 

 terly, or 120 francs per year. Library privi- 

 leges cost 10 francs per year. The fees 

 for examination and diploma vary from 40 

 to 100 francs per year, according to the 

 faculties. 



These provisions relate only to students 

 who are candidates for degrees. Those who 

 wish simply to receive the instruction given 

 by a faculty, without asking a certificate or 

 diploma, will be permitted the greatest 

 freedom of action. 



Foreigners who give evidence of sufficient 

 previous instruction will be admitted into 

 most of the special schools either as pupils 

 or as free auditors. 



In a subsequent article, information 

 will be given in regard to the facilities 

 offered by the principal universities and 

 special schools. 



G. Brown Goode, 



Secretary of the American Branch of the 

 Comite Franco- Amerieain. 



THE ESSENCE OF NUilBEE. 

 Number is primarily a quality of an arti- 

 ficial individual. By artificial is meant ' of 

 human make.' The characteristic of these 

 artificial individuals is that each, though 

 made an individual, is conceived as con- 

 sisting of other individuals. In language 

 the designations for artificial individuals 

 so characterized usually contain other con- 

 notation. Examples are a flock, a herd, a 

 bevy, a covey, a throw, a flight, a swarm, 

 a school, a pack, a bunch, a cluster, a 

 drove, a company, a brood, a group, etc. 

 To any such artificial individual pertains an 

 important quality, its ' An'zahl,' which may 

 agree or differ among such artificial indi- 

 viduals, as may their color. But something 

 like color is made and recognized by insects 

 and animals, so that color is not so highly 

 artificial as number, but will serve for an 

 illustration. Just as the color of a bunch 

 of grapes might be identified by use of a 



