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their own names. Confirmatory of our remarks we here 
give the following statistics :* — There were at Berlin at 
the beginning of the present year 1884 German students, 
including 162 owing no allegiance to the empire. The 
favourite university of the Germans is Leipzig, which has 
2575 Imperial German students, of whom 939 are Saxons 
and 1143 Prussians. Third in rank, if judged only by the 
number of students, is Munich, with 1087 Imperial German 
students, of whom 912 are Bavarians and 113 Prussians. 
The distribution of students among the four principal facul- 
ties is as follows ; — 
Berlin. 
Leipzig. 
Munich. 
Theology . . . 
. 162 
337 
84 
Jurisprudence . 
. 807 
1130 
257 
Medicine . . . 
. 263 
369 
307 
Philosophy . . 
. 9II 
1089 
555 
The difference between the sums of these columns and the 
above figures give us the number of foreigners not Germans 
studying in each university as follows : — Berlin, 259 ; Leip- 
zig, 350; Munich, 116. Berlin has therefore a total of 
2143 students; Leipzig, 2925 ; and Munich, 1203. 
Now, if any comparison is to be instituted between Ger- 
man and English work, all these accessories on the former 
side must be deducted, or to English must be added Ameri- 
can, Australian, and Indian work. 
The inferior character of some of the German work seems 
to be referable, in part, to the system of their university 
teaching, for it is a fadt that the professors of medical 
chemistry are often associated with applied chemistry ; that 
is to say, their work lies between general chemistry on the 
one hand, and medical chemistry on the other. When it is 
therefore considered that the medical men are far behind 
Englishmen in their acquaintance with Materia Medica, 
and r that these same men place in the hands of students 
work of a severe character in science, it is not sur- 
prising that the results should in many cases be so de- 
plorable. 
Let it be understood that this Essay is in reference to 
Physiological Chemistry, and that, in writing of certain un- 
trustworthy work emanating from Germany, we have no 
wish to cast an imputation upon the mass of good work in 
* Literattische Wochenbericht, of Leipzig, of February 24, 1S76. 
