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in 1894. The only university that shows 

 a decrease in the attendance of matricu- 

 lated students this year as against 1894 is 

 Wiirzburg, and there the loss is very slight, 

 from 1,442 to 1,424. The largest gains in 

 actual number of students have been made 

 by Berlin, Miinchen, Bonn, Leipzig, Miin- 

 ster and Gottingen, in the order named, 

 while the largest relative (percentage) in- 

 creases have been registered by Miinster, 

 Kiel, Gottingen, Bonn, Giessen, Jena and 

 Marburg. It is interesting to note that 

 there are three large cities in the first 

 group, and not one in the second, so that 

 we may say, speaking broadly, that the 

 institutions located in the smaller cities 

 have experienced a greater relative gain 

 than those in the large cities, while, on the 

 other hand, the universities of Berlin, 

 Miinchen and Leipzig alone have to their 

 credit 37 per cent, of the gain in actual 

 number of matriculated students made at 

 all of the institutions together since 1894. 

 The following figures taken from the 

 second volume of the report of the commis- 

 sioner of education for the year ended 



NUMBES OP STUDENTS IN ATTENDANCE AT THE 



PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS OF THEOLOGY, LAW 



AND MEDICINE IN THE UNITED STATES 



for the school of philosophy are available 

 for the United States. In comparing the 

 American with the German figures, it 

 should also be borne in mind that the gen- 

 eral standards for admission to professional 

 courses of study in Germany are much 

 higher than they are in our own country. 

 Rudolf Tombo, Jr. 

 Columbia University 



June 30, 1909, may be of interest. They 

 illustrate the growth of the professional 

 schools of theology, law and medicine in 

 our own country, and it will be seen that, 

 contrary to the conditions in Germany, the- 

 ology does not show a loss, whereas medi- 

 cine, on the other hand, exhibits an increase 

 when compared with 1890, but a decrease 

 since 1900; law has made constant and 

 rapid progress. Unfortunately no figures 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Dr. H. T. Eicketts, of the University of 

 Chicago, who has been in Mexico conducting 

 research into the etiology of typhus fever, has 

 died from that disease. 



Dr. Johx Trowbridge, who retires this 

 year from the active duties of his chair at 

 Harvard University, has been appointed hon- 

 orary director of the Jefferson Physical Lab- 

 oratory. 



Dr. Abraham Jacobi, emeritus professor of 

 the diseases of children in the College of 

 Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia Uni- 

 versity, celebrates his eightieth birthday on 

 May 6. On April 23, exercises were held at 

 the Mount Sinai Hospital in his honor. A 

 bronze bust was presented to the hospital by 

 the medical and surgical staff, and a new lib- 

 rary named in his honor was given by the 

 board of directors. At. a dinner given the 

 same evening by the trustees of the German 

 Hospital announcement was made that the 

 new children's ward which Mrs. Anna Woer- 

 ishoffer has given to the hospital will be known 

 as " The Dr. Abraham Jacobi Division for 

 Children." 



Sir ARCHroALD Geikie has been elected a 

 foreign member of the Eoyal Danish Society 

 of Sciences, Copenhagen. 



Sir Thomas Barlow has been elected presi- 

 dent of the Royal College of Physicians, 

 London, in succession to Sir Douglas Powell. 



Professor E. B. Owens, recently professor 

 of electrical engineering in McGill Univer- 

 sity, has been appointed secretary of the 

 Franklin Institute, Philadelphia. 



