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tion is due to a deficit of 5,112 births and an 

 increase of 10,989 deaths. The departments in 

 which the birthrate exceeds the deathrate are 

 those of the north, Pas-de-Calais, Brittany, 

 the frontier regions of the northeast, Limousin 

 and Corsica. On the other hand, the valley of 

 the Garonne, Normandy, the plateau region of 

 Langres and Dauphiny continue to lose ground. 

 The number of deaths (703,638) is greater by 

 11,000 than that of 1912, which was lower than 

 any recorded number since the opening of the 

 nineteenth century. The proportion of deaths 

 to the population is 178 :10,000, as against 172 

 in 1912, 196 in 1911 and 179 in 1910. The mor- 

 tality has increased in 64 departments, and par- 

 ticularly in Bouches-du-Rhone, Dordogne, Var, 

 Haute-Savoie, Corsica, Somme, Haute-Vienne, 

 I'Aveyron and Tarn-et-Garonne. In 1913, 298,- 

 760 marriages were recorded, or 13,169 less 

 than in the preceding year. The proportion of 

 the newly married for each ten thousand has 

 dropped from 158 in 1912 to 151 in 1913. The 

 number of divorces has increased by about 500 ; 

 15,076 were recorded in place of 14,579 in 1912. 

 The increase has therefore continued; in 1900 

 there were but 7,157 divorces; in thirteen 

 years the number has more than doubled. 



The University of Chicago Press announces 

 for fall publication the first two titles in the 

 University of Chicago Science series. The 

 size of the books will be 100 to 150 pages, 

 duodecimo. The books that are ready for pub- 

 lication are : " The Origin of the Earth," by 

 Thomas C. Chamberlin, head of the depart- 

 ment of Geology in the University of Chi- 

 cago ; and " Isolation and Measurement of the 

 Electron," by Robert A. Millikan, professor 

 of physics in the University of Chicago. 



The Smithsonian Institution has issued a 

 treatise on " Atmospheric Air and its Rela- 

 tion to Tuberculosis," by Dr. Guy Hinsdale, 

 as one of the prize essays on that subject pre- 

 sented in connection with the Washington 

 Tuberculosis Congress. The book including 

 136 pages of text and 93 plates of illustrations, 

 forms publication 2,254 of the Smithsonian 

 Miscellaneous Collections. It is not a public 

 document and is distributed free only to li- 

 braries and specialists. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



It is proposed to establish a school of public 

 health at the University of Minnesota, and a 

 meeting was held to discuss plans for the 

 school, July 13. The instruction is to be en- 

 tirely by the present teaching staff, and wiU 

 include the consideration of the subject from 

 a medical as well as from a modern sanitary 

 engineering standpoint. 



Scholarships have been awarded by the 

 Educational Fund Commission, of which Dr. 

 John A. Brashear is president, to the teachers 

 of the public schools of Pittsburgh, for the 

 summer session of various educational insti- 

 tutions as follows : 



Commonwealth Art Colony, Boothbay Harbor. 4 



University of Miehigan 2 



North American Gymnastic Union, Indianapo- 

 lis, Ind 1 



Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, N. Y. . . . 10 



University of Chicago 11 



Columbia University 21 



Cornell University 16 



Dartmouth 4 



Harvard University 14 



Zanerian College of Penmanship, Columbus 



Ohio 3 



Ocean City Summer School 3 



University of Pennsylvania 4 



Pennsylvania State College 7 



University of Vermont 4 



University of Pittsburgh 4 



American Institute, Northwestern University. 1 



University of Wisconsin 11 



University of Berlin, Germany 1 



University of New York 1 



N. Y. School of Fine and Applied Arts 1 



Munich Trade School, Germany 1 



Total niunber of teachers sent in 1914. . . . 124 



Registration for the summer quarter at the 

 University of Chicago has been announced, 

 and an increase over the attendance of a year 

 ago is shown. The total number of men regis- 

 tered on July 3 in the graduate school of arts, 

 literature and science was 726 and of women 

 421, a total of 1,147; in the senior and junior 

 colleges 1,249 men and 942 women, a total 

 of 2,191; in the professional schools (divin- 



