August 19, 1910] 



SCIENCE 



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TABLE III 



Chemistry 



Physics 



Zoology 



Psychology.... 

 Mathematics.. 



Botany 



Geology 



Physiology .... 



Astronomy 



Agriculture ... 

 Bacteriology .. 

 Anthropology, 

 Paleontology . 



Anatomy 



Pathology 



Mineralogy.... 

 Engineering .. 

 Metallurgy .... 

 Geography .... 

 Meteorology .. 



Total 



h22 



464 



227 



214 



198 



180 



163 



99 



65 



44 



23 



21 



20 



19 



12 



11 



9 



9 



4 



3 



1 



still stands first, having granted 490 de- 

 grees in the course of the past thirteen 

 years. Columbia follows closely with 480, 

 and there then follow Harvard with 453, 

 Yale with 421, Johns Hopkins with 383, 

 Pennsylvania with 313 and Cornell with 



271. There is then a considerable drop to 

 Wisconsin, Clark, New York and Michi- 

 gan. The most notable fact in regard to 

 last year is the conferring of twelve de- 

 grees by Illinois, nearly as many as in the 

 preceding twelve years. Wisconsin, by 

 conferring 18 degrees, also maintains the 

 position which it has recently assumed. 

 These two institutions this year surpass 

 Michigan with 7 degrees, California with 

 6 degrees, and Minnesota and Nebraska 

 with one degree each, these being the sis 

 state universities in which graduate work 

 is the most developed. 



Almost exactly half the degrees con- 

 ferred last year were in the natural and 

 exact sciences. The universities, however, 

 differ considerably in the relative impor- 

 tance of their work in the sciences. Chi- 

 cago appears to be the best balanced; it 

 has conferred just half its degrees in the 

 sciences and half in other subjects. At the 

 Johns Hopkins and Cornell about sixty 

 per cent, of the degrees are in the sciences, 

 whereas the percentage is about forty at 

 Harvard, Yale, Columbia and Pennsyl- 

 vania. There is not a preponderance of 

 the sciences in the state universities, the 

 percentage of degrees at Wisconsin being 

 only 37 and at Michigan 38. Boston Uni- 

 versity appears to have the most curious 

 record, having conferred only three sci- 

 entific degrees out of seventy-four. There 

 was this year a large fall in the number of 

 degrees in the sciences conferred by Co- 

 lumbia, 11 as compared with 21 and 23 in 

 the two preceding years. Cornell, on the 

 other hand, conferred this year 27 degrees 

 in the sciences, surpassing all other insti- 

 tutions. 



Table III. gives the distribution of the 

 degrees among the different subjects. 

 Chemistry, with 48 degrees, leads, as al- 

 ways, having about double the numbers in 



