September 5, 1902.] 



SCIENCE.. 



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In the second table similai* statistics are 

 given for the sciences. As has been stated 

 in previous years, the distinction between 

 the sciences and the humanities is somewhat 

 arbitrary. In psychology, education, so- 

 ciology and anthropology the attempt has 

 been made to inclvide the degrees under the 

 sciences only when the thesis indicated that 

 the subject had been treated as a natural 

 science. It will be seen that the degrees 

 are almost equally divided between the 

 natural and exact sciences on the one hand, 

 and languages, history, economics, philos- 

 ophy, etc., on the other. Some universities 

 appear, however, to favor one of the 

 groups. Thus, Johns Hopkins, Cornell and 

 Columbia have conferred more than half 

 their degrees in the sciences, and Harvard, 

 Yale, Chicago and Pennsylvania more than 

 half in the humanities. 



DOCTORATES CONFERRED, IN THE SCIENCES. 



1902 1901 1900 1899 1898 Total 



Chemistry 24 28 26 32 27 137 



Physics 12 23 15 7 11 68 



Zoology 16 15 11 11 12 65 



Psychology 8 13 9 15 18 63 



Mathematics 8 18 11 13 11 61 



Botany 11 8 12 11 11 53 



Geology 6 10 5 5-6 32 



Physiology 8 1 4 1 4 18 



Education 1 2 8 5 16 



Astronomy 2 5 4 2 3 16 



Sociology 4 3 3 5 15 



Paleontology 1 2 4 7 



Anthropology ... 1 2 2 5 



Bacteriology .... 1 1 1 1 4 



Mineralogy 1 2 3 



Agriculture 2 2 



Anatomy 1 1 



Engineering ..... 1 1 



Meteorology 1 1 



104 131 113 115 105 568 



It is evident from the third table that 

 about again as many degrees are awarded 

 in chemistry as in any other science. There 

 is then a group of sciences of nearjy equal 

 rank^ physics, zoology, psychology, mathe- 

 matics and botany — in which the numbers 



range from 68 to 53. There is then a drop 

 to geology with 32 and to physiology with 

 18 degrees. Agriculture appears on the 

 list this year for the first time with two 

 degrees, and last year one degree was 

 awarded in engineering. It is to be hoped 

 and expected that j-esearch work in these 

 applied sciences and in experimental medi- 

 cine will increase. In regard to the culti- 

 vation of the sciences at different centers 

 it appears that this year chemistry was 

 relatively favored at Columbia, Johns 

 Hopkins, Harvard, Yale and Pennsyl- 

 vania; physiological chemistry at Yale; 

 physics, zoology and psychology at Cornell ; 

 geology at Chicago, Harvard and Michi-- 

 gan, and botany at Chicago. 



The names of those on whom the degrees 

 were conferred in the sciences and the 

 titles of their theses are as follows : 



CORNELL UNI'^'EESITT. 



Frank Allen : ' The Relation of Color-Blindness 

 to the Fundamental Color Sensation.' 



Leroy Anderson : ' Some of the Influences af-, 

 fecting Milk Production with especial referencer 

 to the Relation of Food to M-ilk Fat.' 



John Wallace Baird : ' The Relation of Accom- 

 modation and Conveyance to the Perception of 

 Depth.' 



Peter Field : ' The Forms of Unicursal Quintio 

 Curves.' ; 



Charles Stuart Gager : ' The Development of 

 the Polliniura and Sperm Cells in Asclepias Corn- 

 uti Decaisne.' j 



Elmer Edgar Hall : ' The Penetration of Totally 

 Reflected Light into the Rarer Medium.' 



William At wood Hilton: 'The Morphology and 

 Development of Intestinal Folds and Villi in. 

 Vertebrates.' 



Gfeorge L. Hoxie : ' The Induction Motor and, 

 its Engineering Capabilities.' 



Carlotta Joaquina Maury : ' The Marine 011- 

 goeens of the United States.' 



Kiichi Miyakg ; ' The Development of the: Arche- 

 gonium and Fertilization in Picea and Abies.' i 



Henry Lewis Rietz: 'On Primitive Groups of 

 Odd Order.' 



Mary Jane Ross : ' The Origin and Development 

 of the Gastric Glands of Desmognathus, Ambly- 

 stoma and Pig.' 



