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SCIENCE. 



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separately. It will be noticed that the 

 nunibei-s are nearly equally divided between 

 what, for lack of better terms, we must call 

 the sciences and the humanities. The or- 

 der of the universities is not the same here 

 as for the total number of degrees con- 

 ferred, sliowing that the sciences are rela- 

 tively more favored at some institutions 

 than at others. 



DOCTORATES CONFERRED IN THE .SCIENCES. 



Chemistry 27 



Physics U 



Psychology 18 



Zoology 12 



Mathematics... 11 



Botauy 11 



Geology I 6 



Physiology 



Astronomy 



Education 



Sociology 



Paleontology... 

 Bacteriology ... 

 Anthropology.. 



Anatomy 



Agriculture 



Engineering.... 



Mineralogy 



Pathology 



Meteorology.... 



In the third table details are given for 

 the separate sciences. More degrees are 

 always conferred in chemistry than in any 

 other science. This year there were 33 

 degrees in chemistry, 16 in psychology, 14 

 in physics, 12 in zoology and 10 in geology. 

 We are pleased to note an increase in the 

 number of degrees in pathologj^ bacteriol- 

 ogy, physiology and anatomy. The uni- 

 versities conferring three or more degrees 

 in a science are: Columbia— chemistry 4, 

 geology 4, psychology 4, zoology 3; Penn- 

 sylvania—chemistry 5, physics 3; Chicago 

 —chemistry 4, botany 4; Harvard— chem- 

 istry 4, psychologj^ 4; Johns Hopkins- 

 physics 4, chemistry 3 ; Clark— psychology 

 3; Yale— chemistry 3. 



The names of those on whom the degrees 

 were conferred and the subjects of their 

 theses are as follows: 



UNI\'ERSITY OF CHICAGO. 



Solomon Farley Acree: 'Condensations in the 

 Aromatic Series.' 



Theodore Christian Frye: 'Fertilization and 

 Attendant Phenomena in Asclcpias and Aceratcs.' 



Eugene Paul Schoch: 'The Red and the Yel- 

 low Mercuric Oxides and the Mercuric Oxy- 

 chlorides.' 



Edward Emery Slosson : ' On Acylhalogena- 

 mine Derivatives and the Beckmann Rearrange- 

 ment.' 



Charles Hugh Neilson: 'The Hydrolysis and 

 Synthesis of Fats by Platinum Black.' 



Ralph Waldo Webster: 'On Osmotic and Ionic 

 Effects in the Absorption of Liquids by Animal 

 Tissues.' 



William Albert Hamilton: 'On the Conver- 

 gency of the Series in the Determination of the 

 Elements of Parabolic Orbits and the Errors In- 

 troduced in the Elements by Imperfections of the 

 Observations.' 



Mary Hefferan: 'A Comparative Study of a 

 Group of Chromogenic Bacteria.' 



Charles Ingbert: 'The Enumeration of the 

 Modulated Nerve-Fibers in the Dorsal Spinal 

 Nerve-Roots of Man.' 



William J. Moenkhaus : ' The Development of 

 the Hybrids Between Fundulus heterocletvs and 

 Menithia notata with Especial Reference to the 

 Behavior of the Maternal and Paternal Chroma- 

 tin.' 



Henry Taber Upson: 'Molecular Rearrange- 

 ments in the Orthoamino Phenol Derivatives.' 



John Broadus Watson : ' The Psychic Develop- 

 ment of the White Rat Correlated With the 

 Growth of its Nervous System.' 



Harry Gideon Wells: 'Experimental Fat 

 Necrosis.' 



William Clinton Alden: 'The Evolution of the 

 Darien Lobe of the Lake Michigan Glacier.' 



Bennett Mills Allen: 'The Development of the 

 Ovary and the Testis in the Mammals.' 



Wallace Walter Atwood: 'The Glaciation of 

 the Wasatch Mountains.' 



.John Frederick Garber: 'The Life History of 

 Ricciocarpus tmtans.' 



Kate Gordon: 'On the Psychologj' of Mean- 

 ing.' 



George Mellinger Holferty: 'Contribution to 

 the Life History of Potamogeton.' 



Oswald Veblen: 'A System of Axioms for 

 Geometry.' 



Harry Nichols Whitford: 'The Ecological Re- 

 lations of the Coniferous Forests of the Flathead 

 Valley, Montana.' 



