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had a certain charm for me. The principle 

 here expressed applied to our work might 

 be interpreted, "Utility with Research." 

 We have not, so far as I am aware, made 

 any discoveries that will revolutionize the 

 agricultural world, nor have we been look- 

 ing for such ; we have endeavored to do the 

 work that came to our hands faithfully and 

 with such skiU as we possessed. Our re- 

 sults may not have been made the subjects 

 of magazine articles, nor heralded in the 

 public press under sensational head-lines, 

 but we have the greater satisfaction of 

 knowing that they have been helpful to the 

 Canadian farmer. There is so much work 

 to be done that one feels at times as if a 

 beginning had not yet been made ; neverthe- 

 less, on looking back it is not difficult to see 

 wherein chemical research has played its 

 part in the development of Canadian agri- 

 culture. 



May I, in conclusion, say that our work 

 in agricultural chemistry has been very 

 greatly assisted by help in various ways 

 from those in charge of the chemical in- 

 vestigations at the experiment stations in 

 the United States ? Many of our problems 

 have been yours. You were the pioneers 

 in the field ; we have profited much by your 

 work and experience. We acknowledge 

 with gratitude our indebtedness, and trust 

 that the friendly relations that have so far 

 existed between us may always continue; 

 and that we may always be able to work 

 together, recognizing that our object is one 

 and the same— the progress of agriculture 

 on the North American continent. 



Frank T. Shutt 

 Dominion Experiment Farm, 

 Ottawa, Can. 



DOCTORATES 



CONFERRED BY 

 UNIVERSITIES 



AMERICAN 



conferred by the universities of the United 

 States. The total number of doctorates 

 conferred was 327, almost exactly the same 

 as in 1905 and 1906, when the niunbers 

 were, respectively, 325 and 326. The av- 

 erage number for the past ten years has 

 been 271. There has thus been an in- 

 crease, though probably not so large as in 

 the number of positions to be filled. It 

 must also be remembered that the number 

 of American students receiving degrees 

 from foreign universities is probably less 

 now than it was ten years ago. 



TABLE I. 

 DOCTORATES CONFEEEED 



Chicago 



Harvard 



Columbia 



Yale 



Johns Hopkins .. 



Pennsylvania 



Cornell 



Clark 



Wisconsin 



Michigan 



New York 



Boston 



California 



Virginia 



George Washington 



Princeton 



Minnesota 



Brown 



Bryn Mawr 



Nebraska 



Catholic 



Stanford 



Iowa.. 



Georgetown 



Washington 



Vauderbilt 



Colorado 



Illinois 



North Carolina 



Missouri 



Northwestern 



Wash, and Lee 



Cincinnati 



Kansas 



Lafayette 



Massachusetts Inst. 



Lehigh 



Syracuse 



I)artmouth 



Tulane 



Western of Pa 



37 36 

 36! 29 

 21 25 



32 36 

 28 46 

 39 29 



36 1 39 

 23 31 



236 224 239 255 224 270 289 325 326 327 2,715 



356 



338 



322 



318 



305 



225 



181 



87 



86 



69 



67 



44 



33 



28 



28 



26 



24 



23 



21 



20 



20 



14 



11 



10 



7 



6 



5 



5 



5 



4 



4 



4 



3 



Foe the tenth consecutive year we pub- 

 lish statistics in regard to the degrees of 

 doctor of philosophy and doctor of science 



Chicago awarded last year 53 degrees, 

 which is the largest number conferred so 

 far by a single institution. This makes the 

 total ninnber of degrees conferred by Chi- 



