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quarter of the ten preceding- years, and was 

 lower than the rate for the corresponding 

 period of any year since civil registration was 

 established. Among the several counties the 

 birth-rates ranged from 19.3 in Carnarvon- 

 shire, 20.0 in Sussex, 21.0 in Kent, 21.1 in 

 Devonshire, 21.6 in Northamptonshire and 

 21.7 in Cornwall, to 30.0 in Nottinghamshire, 

 30.1 in the North Eiding of Yorkshire, 32.6 

 in Carmarthenshire, 34.0 in Durham, 35.7 in 

 Glamorganshire and 37.4 in Monmouthshire. 

 In seventy-seven of the largest towns, in- 

 eluding London, the birth-rate averaged 26.1 

 per 1,000, and ranged from 14.2 in Hornsey 

 and Hastings, 18.4 in Bournemouth, 19.1 in 

 Halifax and 19.5 in Handsworth (Staffs) and 

 in Bradford, to 34.3 in Coventry, 34.4 in Tj-ne- 

 mouth, 34.6 in Swansea, 35.9 in St. Helens 

 and 41.0 in Ehondda; in London the birth- 

 rate was 24.9 per 1,000. The births registered 

 in England and Wales during the quarter 

 under notice exceeded the deaths by 119,112, 

 the excess in the corresponding period of the 

 three preceding years having been 111,198, 

 122,782 and 111,998, respectively. From a 

 return issued by the board of trade it appears 

 that the passenger movement between the 

 United Kingdom and places outside Europe 

 resulted in a net balance outward of 42,920 

 English passengers, 868 Welsh, 20,854 Scot- 

 tish, 11,708 Irish and 18,202 of foreign na- 

 tionality, whilst there was a net balance in- 

 ward of 5,461 British colonial passengers. 

 During the second quarter of the year the 

 deaths of 115,702 persons were registered, 

 equal to an annual rate of 12.8 per 1,000, or 

 2.3 per 1,000 lower than the average rate in 

 the ten preceding second quarters; the death- 

 rate last quarter, like the birth-rate, is the 

 lowest ever recorded for that period of the 

 year. Among the several counties the death- 

 rates ranged from 9.7 in Essex, 9.8 in Middle- 

 sex, 10.6 in Leicestershire, 10.9 in Kent and 

 in Northamptonshire and 11.0 in Worcester- 

 shire to 15.1 in Carnarvonshire, 15.2 in Cum- 

 berland, 15.6 in Monmouthshire, 1S.2 in Car- 

 marthenshire and 18.3 in Denbigshire. In 

 seventy-seven of the largest towns the death- 

 rate averaged 12.6 per 1,000; in London it was 



11.6 per 1,000, while among the other towns 

 it ranged from 7.4 in Hornsey, 7.5 in King's 

 Norton and 7.7 in Walthamstow and in 

 Handsworth (Staffs) to 16.1 in Stockport, 

 1C.2 in Manchester, 17.7 in Liverpool, 17.8 in 

 Oldham and 20.6 in Merthyr Tydfil. The 

 mortality among persons aged 1 to 60 years 

 was at the rate of 6.5 per 1,000 of the popula- 

 tion estimated to be living at those ages, and 

 was 1.4 per 1,000 below the average rate in the 

 corresponding period of the ten preceding 

 years. Among persons aged 60 years and up- 

 wards the death-rate in the quarter under 

 notice was 61.5 per 1,000 or 4.3 per 1,000 less 

 than the average in the ten preceding second 

 quarters. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 The national memorial to Grover Cleve- 

 land is to take the form of a tower to be 

 erected at Princeton as part of the buildings 

 of the graduate school, with which Mr. Cleve- 

 land was closely identified during the last 

 years of his life. The tower will be about 150 

 feet high and 40 feet square. It will cost 

 $100,000, of which sum $75,000 have already 

 been given. 



Miss B. Henan has given $50,000 to Cork 

 University for the establishment of scholar- 

 ships. 



Dean E. W. Stajjton, of the Iowa State 

 College, has been appointed acting-president 

 of the institution. 



Mr. Edw..iRd J. KuNZE has been appointed 

 assistant professor of mechanical engineering 

 at the Michigan Agricultural College. 



Dr. Norman A. Dubois, of the department 

 of chemistry of the Case School of Applied 

 Science, has been elected professor of chemis- 

 try in the School of Pharmacy of Western 

 Reserve University. 



Dr. Otto Fritzsche, chief engineer of the 

 Krupp works in Essen, has accepted the chair 

 of mechanics in the Freiburg Mining School. 



De. Ludwig Kxorr, of Jena, has accepted a 

 call to Wiirzburg, as successor to Professor J. 

 Tafel. 



