October 27, 1905. J 



SCIENCE. 



537 



his manuscript notes, with the references to 

 the places of the plants in his herbarium. 

 Then there is a copy of the second edition of 

 Eobert Plot's 'Natural History of Oxford- 



data in regard to six of the older private 

 universities in the eastern states, six western 

 state universities and six foreign universities, 

 which is here reproduced: 



OLDER PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES IN EASTERN STATES. 



Name. 



Harvard 



Columbia 



Yale 



Pennsylvania. 



Princeton 



Brown 



Total 



Michigan 



Illinois 



Wisconsin *.... 

 Minnesota .... 

 California. ... 

 Nebraska 



Total 



Date of 

 Founding. 



1636 

 1754 

 1716 

 1791 

 1756 

 1764 



Number in 



Instructing 



Staff 



525 

 551 

 343 

 325 

 109 

 85 



1,938 



Number of 



Students 



1904. 



5,143 

 5,017 

 3,138 



2,838 



1,374 



988 



18,498 



Annual Budget 

 1904. 



$1,572,5401 

 1,438,638 

 800,000 

 685,000 

 460,863 

 180,000 



5,137,041 



Annual Cost 

 to University 

 Per Student. 



270 

 255 

 241 

 335 

 192 



Annual Cost 

 to Student. 



$150 



$150 to $250 



100 " 150 



1.50 " 200 



150 " 160 



150 



WESTERN STATE UNIVERSITIES. 



1837 



1868 

 1848 

 1868 

 1868 

 1869 



292 

 402 

 227 

 290 

 283 

 193 



1,687 



4,136 

 3,594 

 3,342 

 3,895 

 3,400 

 2,513 



20,880 



$746,000 

 800,000 

 700,000 

 497,0002 

 945 000 

 419,750 



t, 107, 750 



$180 

 223 

 209 

 128 

 279 

 167 



$10 to $45 



free 



free 



$20 to $100 



e 



ree 



FOREIGN UNIVERSITIES. 



shire' (Oxford, 1705), the first edition of 

 which appeared in 1677. This work was the 

 forerunner of the numerous ' County His- 

 tories ' that have been subsequently issued. 



Finally, attention may be drawn to the 

 earliest figure and description of that flight- 

 less bird, the solitaire, in a book by the French 

 traveler Frangois Leguat, printed at London 

 in 1708. The solitaire formerly inhabited the 

 island of Rodriguez, and became extinct about 

 the end of the eighteenth century. 



STATISTICS OF EASTERN, STATE AND 

 FOREIGN UNIVERSITIES. 



In an address before the University of 

 Michigan, printed in the Atlantic Monthly, 

 Dr. Henry S. Pritchett showed a table giving 



THE EIGHTEENTH SEASON OF THE MARINE 

 BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY. 1905. 



The regular season for investigators opened 

 June 1 and continued through most of Sep- 

 tember. During this period there were in 

 attendance 71 investigators, of whom 63 occu- 

 pied private rooms with an average period of 

 attendance of about six weeks to two months. 



Students receiving instruction were in ses- 

 sion from June 28 to August 9, and the total 

 attendance was 57, a much smaller number 

 than in the years previous to 1903, owing to 

 the raising of the standard of admission at 

 that time. The work of collection of material 

 was again under the charge of the curator of 



^ Omitting $875,575 in special gifts. 

 -Omitting $400,000 for buildings. 



