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SCIENCE 



659 



4. The reduction in the standard of 

 living, by extending the tendency already 

 enforced to some extent, as in the gradual 

 withdrawal of meat and other valuable 

 food products from the daily diet, and 

 adopting such standards as are common in 

 China and Japan, where beef, butter and 

 milk are practically unknown. 



The greatest study of mankind is not 

 man, but the application of principles 

 upon which depends the preservation of 

 man's prosperity and civilization; and this 

 study must not only include the applica- 

 tion of science to raise high the limitations 

 of the production from the soil of neces- 

 sary food supplies, but it must also include 

 the application of sense in placing some 

 just and necessary limitations upon the 

 reproduction of the least fit of human 

 kind. Cteil G. Hopkins 



Univeksity op Illinois 



ATTENDANCE OF STUDENTS AT FOREIGN 

 UNIVERSITIES 



The following table, which I have recently 

 compiled, may be of interest to your readers. 



These figures of attendance were furnished 

 to the U. S. Commissioner of Education by 

 the editor of Minerva, were printed by him in 

 his annual report for 1908 (not summarized 

 as here, but in detail for each institution, 

 country by country), and are probably as com- 

 plete as any which could be readily found or 

 compiled. That these totals understate, 

 rather than overstate, the attendance in some 

 of the countries which have not taken the 

 pains to prepare complete official statistics is 

 highly probable; thus in Science, September 

 24, 1909, there are given figures quoted from 

 Professor B. Menschutkin, writing in Nature, 

 which claim a total attendance of students in 

 the higher educational institutions of Russia 

 for the years of 1908 and 1909, of Y6,900, with 

 the surmise of possibly 20,000 more in private 

 higher colleges in different towns — a total of 

 96,900 as opposed to 54,208 given in the 



table for the year 1907 as a total of the fig- 

 ures furnished by the editor of Minerva. 



I have not Nature at hand, but as quoted in 

 Science Professor Menschutkin fails to state 

 from what source his figures were drawn and 

 I have therefore not been able to check them 

 and, consequently, have not felt free to use 

 them in this table in place of those having 

 the sanction of " official " source. My own 

 belief is that the total for Norway is consid- 

 erably less than it should be if it represented 

 complete results, but I have not, after due 

 search, been able to find official supplementary 

 figures. The same may be true in the case 

 of some other countries, but the table is sig- 

 nificant enough as it stands in the showing it 

 makes of the widespread interest and partici- 

 pation in higher education. 



Population from " Statesman's Year Book," 

 1908. Number of Students from " Report of U. S. 

 Commissioner of Education," 1908, Vol. I. 



GuiDO H. Marx 



ELECTIONS TO THE AMERICAN PHILO- 

 SOPHICAL SOCIETY 



At the annual elections for members of the 

 American Philosophical Society on April 23, 

 fifteen residents of the United States and five 



'■ Including normal schools. 



' Excluding normal schools. 



^ Including hearers. 



'Excluding 22,159 "evening students." 



