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THERE have been comparisons made recently both in this and in other journals between the Universities of Germany and those of this country, and as the university question is at present giving rise to much discussion, it may be useful to give some statistics with reference to the former. Such statistics are much more easily attainable for Germany than for England, as there are two German publications in which all the important information concerning the various universities of the empire is systematically arranged, viz., the Deutsche Universitäts Kalendar and the Deutsche akademisches Jahrbuch. To obtain similar information concerning the universities of the United Kingdom it would be necessary to obtain a copy of the calendar of each university. Our statistics are obtained from the Jahrbuch, which contains information not only relating to the universities, but also to the technical and high schools, learned societies, and libraries of the country. Some such publication is wanted here, and might be made to include not only our various universities and colleges, but also our principal public schools. The Jahrbuch includes, moreover, the Russo-German University of Dorpat, the Universities of Vienna, Graz, Innsbruck, Prague, Czernowitz, Basel, but these we shall not take into account.
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German Universities . Nature 17, 103–104 (1877). https://doi.org/10.1038/017103a0
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