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students and graduated 5,444. Twenty years 

 ago there were 89 medical schools with 14,934 

 students and 4,115 graduates. The increase 

 in the number of schools and students is far 

 in advance of the increase in the number of 

 graduates. The graduates twenty years ago 

 were 4,115; in 1900, 5,314; in 1901, 5,444, and 

 in 1902, 5,000. The attendance in twenty 

 years has therefore increased nearly 200 per 

 cent, and the number of graduates has in- 

 creased less than 25 per cent. The decrease 

 in the number of graduates in the last year 

 is assigned to the increased length of course 

 of study and increased requirements by state 

 boards. It is considered by many a temporary 

 decrease and one that will be changed to an 

 increase as soon as the temporary check is 

 overcome. The decrease in graduates is classi- 

 fied thus : There were 4,879 graduates from 

 the regular colleges in 1901; 387 from the 

 homeopathic,; 148 from the eclectic, and 30 

 from the physio-medical and nondescript; 

 total, 5,444. In 1902, 4,498 graduated from 

 regular schools; 336 from the homeopathic; 

 138 from the eclectic, and 27 from the others; 

 a decrease in every class. The increase in 

 students is classified thus : There were 23,846 

 students registered at the regular colleges 

 during the year ending July 1, 1901 ; 1,683 at 

 the homeopathic; 664 at the eclectic, and 224 

 at the physio-medical and nondescript; a to- 

 tal of 26,417. During the year ending July 

 1, 1902, 24,878 students registered at the regu- 

 lar colleges ; 1,617 at the homeopathic ; 765 

 at the eclectic, and 241 at the physio-medical 

 and nondescript; total, 27,501. This is an in- 

 crease among all but the homeopathic schools. 

 In the year the regular schools increased in 

 enrolment 1,032 and decreased in number of 

 graduates 381. The homeopaths lost in en- 

 rolment 66 and in graduates 51; the eclectics 

 gained in enrolment 99 and lost 10 in gradu- 

 ates; all other schools gained 17 in enrolment 

 and lost 3 in graduates. 



The Electrical World gives details as to the 

 award of the Galileo Ferraris award, to which 

 we have already called attention. The com- 

 mission for the award, which was instituted 

 in 1898, composed of representatives of the 

 executive committee of the Association of the 



General Italian Exposition, in Turin, 1898, of 

 the Chamber of Commerce and Arts, of the 

 Eoyal Academy of Sciences and of the Royal 

 Italian Industrial Museum of Turin, has de- 

 cided to reopen an international competition 

 for the conferring of this premium on the 

 occasion of the inauguration, which will take 

 place in the second half of September next, of 

 the monument to be erected in Turin in honor 

 of Galileo. The premium consists of 15,000 

 lire and interest from 1899 up to the date of 

 the assignment, and will be conferred upon the 

 author of any invention from which results a 

 notable progress in the industrial applications 

 of electricity. Competitors can present papers, 

 projects and drawings, as well as machines, 

 apparatus or constructions relating to their in- 

 ventions. The jury nominated by the associa- 

 tion above named will have most ample powers 

 to execute practical experiments with the in- 

 ventions presented. Competitors must present 

 their requests and deliver their works, ma- 

 chines, apparatus or anything else connected 

 with their inventions, not later than the 18th 

 day of September, 1902, at the office of the 

 secretary of the association, in the palace of 

 the Chamber of Commerce and Arts of Turin, 

 via Ospedale, No. 28. 



The topographic survey of the eastern part 

 of the state of Washington, commenced by the 

 U. S. Geological Survey, will be continued this 

 season under the general direction of Mr. R. 

 U. Goode. Two parties from the geological 

 survey will be engaged in the work. One of 

 them will be under Mr. L. C. Fletcher, 'with 

 Messrs. J. G. Hefty and J. B. Bond as assist- 

 ants. The work of the party will be an ex- 

 tension westward of that commenced last sea- 

 son in the vicinity of Republic, the area to be 

 surveyed extending along the international 

 boundary for about 30 miles and including 

 the valley of the Okanogan River and the 

 region adjacent to the Osoyoos Lake. The 

 second party will be under Mr. G. T. Hawkins. 

 The work assigned to this party is the exten- 

 sion of the existing triangulation in the vicin- 

 ity of Spokane southward through Whitman, 

 Garfield and Asotin counties. This triangula- 

 tion will be followed as soon as may be prac- 



