December 16, 1910] 



SCIENCE 



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colleges conforming more closely to these 

 averages. 



UNDEKGRiU)UATE WORK FOR CHEMISTS 



The second portion of this paper relates 

 to the opportunities offered by the agricul- 

 tural colleges for training for chemical 

 careers. Practically every agricultural col- 

 lege makes provision for such work, (1) by 

 offering eleetives in the agricultural or 

 scientific courses; (2) by grouping these 

 eleetives so that beginning with the junior 

 or senior year of the agricultural course a 

 student may devote a large part of his time 

 to chemistry, and (3) by offering four-year 

 courses in chemistry or chemical engineer- 

 ing. The different catalogues show an 

 ample number of eleetives, but unless there 

 are fully organized four-j^ear courses it is 

 impossible to tell how many students avail 

 themselves of their opportunities, and fur- 

 ther consideration of them must be omitted. 



The report of the Bureau of Education 

 shows the following students enrolled in 

 chemical engineering and chemistry in the 

 various agricultural colleges for the year 

 1908-9. 



Chemical 

 State Engineering Chemistry 



Maine 12 28 



New Hampshire 19 



Vermont 33 



Rhode Island 7 



New Jersey 12 



Pennsylvania 11 65 



North Atlantic states . . '49 138 



Maryland 15 



Virginia 34 



North Carolina 17 



South Carolina 9 



South Atlantic states . . 9 66 



Ohio 34 



Indiana 51 19 



Illinois 59 48 



Wisconsin 23 41 



Minnesota 15 46 



Missouri 16 



North Dakota 4 



North central states ... 198 158 



Kentucky 25 



Alabama 22 



Louisiana 64 64 



Texas 1 



Arkansas 55 55 



South central states . . . f20 166 



Montana 4 



Washington 18 



California 51 



Far western states .... 51 22 



Total for the United 



States 427 550 



Total students in chemical engineering and 

 chemistry in the agricultural colleges, 977. 



This list does not show fully the under- 

 graduate work for training chemists, but 

 for the reasons stated above the data for 

 fuller information were not available. 



GRADUATE WORK IN CHEMISTRY 



Practically every agricultural college has 

 a few graduate students doing work in 

 chemistry for the master's degree. This is 

 a secondary feature in some of the colleges, 

 and others have well-digested schemes for 

 work. A very valuable paper showing the 

 scope and extent of graduate work in 

 America appeared in Science for August 

 19, 1910, entitled "Doctorates Conferred 

 by American Universities." From that 

 paper we learn that 178 doctorates were 

 conferred for work in science in 1910, 

 about one third of them by the universities 

 of which the agricultural colleges are a 

 part, and about two thirds by other insti- 

 tutions. Of this number 44 were in chem- 

 istry and about the same relation existed 

 .between the two classes of institutions. 

 15 doctorates for work in chemistrj' were 

 conferred by Cornell, Illinois and Wiscon 

 sin. A table made from the paper referred 

 to is inserted here, which shows among 

 other things the verj' rapid development in 

 the graduate departments of the universi- 

 ties of which the agricultural colleges are 

 a part. 



