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SCIENCE 



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TABLE vm. OCCUPATION OF THE THOUSAND MEN OF SCIENCE ACCOEDINQ TO SCIENCE AND TO POSITION 



Mathematics . 



Physics 



Chemistry . . . 

 Astronomy. . 



Geology 



Botany 



Zoology 



Physiology. . . 

 Anatomy . . . . 

 Pathology. . . 

 Anthropology 

 Psychology. . 



1- 100 



101- 200 



201- 300 



301- 400 



401- 500 



501- 600 



601- 700 



701- 800 



801- 900 



901-1000 



1 

 18 

 12 



5 

 30.5 

 12 

 14 



2 



2.5 

 15.5 



80 

 150 

 175 

 50 

 100 

 100 

 150 

 40 

 25 

 60 

 20 

 50 



100 

 100 

 100 

 100 

 100 

 100 

 100 

 100 

 100 

 100 



738.5 106 59 



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sions, while these professions require men, 

 with a few esceptions, to earn their livings by 

 teaching or by applied science. 



The standing of those in the different pro- 

 fessions does not show a considerable differ- 

 ence. There are in the upper three hundred 

 relatively more men engaged in teaching and 

 in the research institutions, and fewer in ap- 

 plied science, but the differences are scarcely 

 significant, except that those engaged in ap- 

 plied science are of somewhat lower standing. 

 Those in the government service and the offi- 

 cers and curators of museums and botanical 

 gardens are of average standing. 



There were 19 women on the list of 1903. 

 None of them died but seven were not placed 

 on the list of 1910. This is a somewhat larger 

 proportion than in the case of the men, but the 

 figures are too small to have significance. SLx 

 women found a place for the first time on the 

 list of 1910, the highest being in the fifth hun- 

 dred. It thus appears that women have not 



improved their position in science in the 

 course of seven years, and it is not an impor- 

 tant one, only 18 women among 982 men, with 

 none in the first hundred, two in the second, 

 two in the third and three in the fourth. 

 There are now nearly as many women as men 

 who receive a college degree; they have on the 

 average more leisure; there are four times as 

 many women as men engaged in teaching. 

 There does not appear to be any social preju- 

 dice against women engaging in scientific 

 work, and it is difficult to avoid the conclusion 

 that there is an innate sexual disqualification. 

 Women seem not to have done appreciably 

 better in this country than in other countries 

 and periods in which their failure might be 

 attributed to lack of opportunity. But it is 

 possible that the lack of encouragement and 

 sympathy is greater than appears on the sur- 

 face, and that in the future women may be 

 able to do their share for the advancement of 



