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these fifteen universities were responsible for 

 two thirds of the opportunities offered for ad- 

 vancement in the sciences of medicine in this 

 country up to the year 1903. The institutions 

 offering more than ten positions are seven in 

 number, Hopkins, Harvard, Columbia, Michi- 

 gan, Pennsylvania, Chicago and New York 

 University,^^ in the order named, with a total 

 of 158 positions or almost exactly half of the 

 positions (314) represented by the total num- 

 ber of individuals. 



PRESENT DISTEffiUTION WITH RANK 



Table XIII. presents the distribution of the 

 entire 238 individuals and their rank as given 

 in the 1906 and 1910 editions of " American 

 Men of Science." Persons characterized as 

 " emeritus " or " retired " are credited accord- 

 ing to their last appointment. Nine men in 

 active service in 1906 are not included in the 

 table; these represent two men called to for- 

 eign universities, a medical clinician, a spe- 

 cialist in tubereulosis^the last two without 



TABLE Xm 



JDistrihiition and S.ank; 1903 and 1910 Lists; 229 Names 



Adj. or 

 Associate 

 Professor 



Assistant 

 or Junior 

 Professor 



Instructor, 

 Lecturer, 



Associate or 

 Assistant 



Director, 

 Cliief or 

 Curator 



Harvard 



Hopkins 



Columbia 



Pennsylvania 



Chicago (incl. Rush) 



Cornell 



Federal and state depts 



Michigan 



Wisconsin 



California 



N. Y. University and Bellevue . . 



Rockefeller Institute 



U. S. Army and Navy and P. H 



Service 



Western Reserve 



Minnesota 



Northwestern 



Missouri 



Yale 



Hospitals 



Wesleyan 



Illinois 



Mass. Institute of Technology . . 



St. Louis Medical School 



Buffalo 



Philippine Med. School 



Stanford 



Indiana 



Other Institutions 



Not classified 



Totals 



238 



69 



It is of interest also that this very definite 

 support of scientific medicine concerns almost 

 entirely the university schools; independent 

 medical schools play little or no part in this 

 table. 



16 Including the old New York University and 

 Bellevue Hospital Medical Schools. 



university affiliation — a librarian, and four 

 men whose later records are incomplete. The 

 table thus really includes only 229 indi- 

 viduals.^'' 



1^ Only institutions represented by two or more 

 places are given in the table. Other institutions 

 represented by one professor are: Bowdoin, Texas, 



