Harvard has on its faculties 89.5 of the leading scientific men and has gained 23 since 1906. Under the existing system of university administration honor should be given to Mr. Eliot and Mr. Lowell for maintaining high academic traditions. In 1906 Harvard had 66.5 of our thousand leading scientific men, Columbia 60, and Chicago 39. Now of 1,176 leading scientific men Harvard has 89.5, Chicago 53.5, and Columbia 46.5. It should also be noticed that Harvard has 21 of the younger men of the group of 250, as compared with 15 at Chicago and 7 at Columbia. Following these three universities are Yale with 42.5 and California and the Johns Hopkins bracketed with 40.5.

In the fourth edition of the Biographical Directory of American Men of Science a table is printed showing the ten strongest departments in each science and their gain or loss since 1906. Harvard shows its leadership not only as a whole but in nearly every department. It stands first among universities in physics, chemistry, geology, botany, zoology, physiology and pathology, second in mathematics, third in astronomy and psychology, fourth in anthropology. There has been a gain since 1906 in every department except anatomy and psychology, though in several cases the gains are due only to the increased number of individuals on the present list. Science.