April 8, 1904.] 



SCIENCE. 



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Consul-General Guenther, at Frankfort-am- 

 Main, reports furtlier that of these foreigners 

 739 are studying philosophy, philology or his- 

 tory; 722, medicine; 651, mathematics or 

 natural sciences; 366, law; 231, political econ- 

 omy or forestry; 178, agriculture; 135, Evan- 

 gelical theology; 32, Catholic theology; 26, 

 dentistry and 13, pharmacy. Two thousand 

 six hundred and twenty of them come from 

 European and 473 from non-European coun- 

 tries. Among the former are 986 from Rus- 

 sia, 588 from Austria-Hungary, 318 from 

 Switzerland, 162 from England, 73 from Bul- 

 garia, 69 from Eoumania, 64 from Erance, 

 59 from Greece, 55 from Servia, 49 from Hol- 

 land, 41 from Turkey, 43 from Italy, 33 from 

 Luxemburg, 33 from Sweden and Norway, 14 

 from Belgium, 13 from Spain, 12 from Den- 

 mark, 4 from Portugal, 2 from Montenegro 

 and 1 from the principality of Lichtenstein. 



Of the other foreign students, 319 are from 

 America, 133 from Asia, 19 from Africa and 

 2 from Australia. The Americans are mainly 

 from the United States and the Asiatics for 

 the largest part from Japan. 



These figures, however, include only the 

 lawfully immatriculated students; to them 

 must be added those who are enrolled as hos- 

 pitants, of which 9,187 are reported in the 



foregoing table, including 7,874 male and 

 1,313 female attending as special students. 



Noteworthy among other things, in the table 

 above, is the numerical preeminence of attend- 

 ance at Berlin, where the total exceeds that 

 of Munich, Leipzig, Bonn and Breslau com- 

 bined. But 42 per cent, of Berlin's attend- 

 ance is made up of non-matriculated students, 

 representing a floating element to a consider- 

 able extent. Elsewhere in Germany this fea- 

 ture is a minor one in university attendance. 



Among non-matriculated students, one out 

 of every seven is a woman, and over 42 per 

 cent, of these women in attendance at the 

 twenty universities are found at Berlin. Out- 

 side of Berlin women students among non- 

 matriculants are best represented at Breslau, 

 Bonn and Strassburg, but at none of these 

 institutions does the attendance reach a hun- 

 dred. 



John Franklin Crowell. 



Washington, D. C. 



RESOLUTIONS OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY 

 OF WASHINGTON IN MEMORY OF E. 

 E. EWELL AND E. A. DE SCHWEINITZ. 

 At the regular meeting of the Chemical 

 Society of Washington, held in the Assembly 

 Hall of the Cosmos Club on Thursday even- 

 ing, March 10, 1904, the following memorial 

 was presented by Dr. Harvey W. Wiley and, 

 in accordance with the custom of the society, 

 was ordered spread upon the minutes of the 

 meeting, published in Science and a copy fur- 

 nished the family of the deceased: 



Mr. E. E. Ewell was a faithful and loyal mem- 

 ber of the American Chemical Society and of the 

 Washington Section thereof. At the time of his 

 removal from Washington he was one of the vice- 

 presidents of the section and in direct line to the 

 presidency. For one so young his services to 

 science were notable, and especially so in view 

 of his willingness to engage in laborious routine 

 work which occupied a great part of his time. 

 His activities extended to all branches of agri- 

 cultviral and pharmaceutical chemistry. He or- 

 ganized in the Bureau of Chemistry the investi- 

 gations of the qualities of the articles offered to 

 the government under contract, and had charge 

 of that part of the work committed to the bureau 

 from the different departments of the govern- 



