Training schools for nurses..... Institutions for feeble-minded children Miscellaneous.... Total.. TABLE XXI.-Statistical summary of benefactions, by institutions, for the The foregoing summary exhibits the total of donations and legacies by individuals in aid of education for the year ending June 30, 1885, so far as reported to this Office, and the classes of institutions that are the recipients of the benefactions. The total amount reported, viz, $9,314,081, exceeds the benefactions for any single year since 1873, when the total was $11,226,977. More than half the entire sum donated during Objects not specified. Grounds, buildings, furni ture, and apparatus. the present year is for the benefit of colleges and universities. Institutions for secondary instruction receive $1,629,213, the largest amount credited to them in any year. For full particulars concerning these benefactions, their sources, purposes, etc., the reader is referred to Table XXI of the Appendix. LIST OF HISTORICAL SOCIETIES IN THE UNITED STATES. This preliminary list of historical societies, compiled from two lists-one published by the Magazine of American History, August, 1884, the other by the Magazine of Western History, February, 1885, and both prepared by Gen. Charles W. Darling, corresponding secretary of the Oneida Historical Society, Utica, N. Y.-and from the incomplete files of this Office, is published with the hope that other historical societies and kindred organizations may become interested and supply such data as will enable the Office to give a much more complete and satisfactory list in a subsequent Report: List of historical societies in the United States-Continued. State. Massachusetts.. Do..... Do... Do.. Do...... Do. Do... Do.. Do.. Do.... Do.... Do.... Do... Do.. Do.... Do.. Michigan Do.. Do.. Do... Do.... Minnesota Do..... Mississippi Missouri. Montana. Nebraska. New Hampshire. Do...... Do. Do.... Do.... Do.. Do.. Do... New Mexico.. New York... Do. Do.. Do.... Do.. Do. Do.. Do.. Do... Do...... Society. Dedham Historical Society.... Pecumtuck Valley Memorial Association.. Historical Society Old Residents' Historical Society... New England Methodist Historical Society. Pilgrim Society... Historical Society Essex Institute..... Historical Society Old Colony Historical Society Wayne County Pioneer Society.. Houghton County Historical Society Minnesota Historical Society Mississippi Historical Society Missouri Historical Society of St. Louis Nebraska State Historical Society. New Hampshire Antiquarian Society... New Jersey Historical Society City or town. Dedham. Dorchester. Lexington. Lowell. South Natick. Detroit. Do. Do. Houghton. Lansing. Ortonville St. Louis. Lincoln. Concord. Contoocook. Nashua. Newark. New Brunswick. Auburn. Batavia Buffalo. Jamestown. Kingston. Newburg. New York. American Ethnological Society. Do. Do..... American Geographical Society Do. EDUCATION IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. I.-EUROPE. AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.-C. AUSTRIA, constitutional monarchy: area, 115,903 square miles; population (December 31, 1880), 22,144,244. Capital, Vienna; population, 1,103,857. Minister of public instruction, Conrad von Eybesfeld. The following statistics are taken from the "Oesterreichische Statistik," B. IX, Heft I, and "Statistik der Unterrichts-Anstalten" for 1882-183, published in 1885. Higher instruction.-The number of teachers at the different Austrian universities in the winter of 1882-'83 was 969, of whom 322 were at Vienna; 133 at Grätz; 89 at Innsbruck; 159 in the newly established German section at Prague, and 61 in the Bohemian section, 220 in all; 62 at Lemberg; 105 at Cracow; and 38 at Czernowitz. Of the total number, 326 were regular or ordinary professors; 148 were extraordinary; 249 were Privat-docenten ; and the rest were assistants, special teachers, etc. The theological faculties had 73 professors, the law faculties 135, the medical 347, and the philosophical 414. These figures show an increase in the teaching force at all the universities of 27 persons since the previous year. The students during the winter semester numbered 11,467, and 10,667 in summer, against 10,594 and 9,766, respectively, the previous year. Of the 11,467 in the winter semester, 5,000 were at Vienna, 965 at Grätz, 686 at Innsbruck, 2,750 at Prague (1,695 in the German, and 1,055 in the Bohemian universities), 985 at Lemberg, 811 at Cracow, and 270 at Czernowitz. As to nationality, 9,472 were from the different provinces of Austria, and 1,995 from other countries. As to native language, 5,315 were German, 2,198 Czech-Slavonians, 1,670 Poles, 511 Ruthenians, 175 Slovenians, 315 Croatians and Servians, 377 Italians, 160 Roumanians, 628 Magyars, and 118 others. As to religious belief, 8,744 were Catholics, 321 were Oriental Greeks, 352 Evangelicals, 21 Unitarians, 1,997 Jews, 13 belonged to other confessions, and 19 were without religious connections. The number of those receiving stipends in the winter semester was 1,381, and they received 237,836 gulden ($93,469). In the summer these figures fell to 775 students and 111,547 gulden ($43,838). The six higher institutions for technical instruction had 337 professors and teachers, 2,785 students in the winter semester and 2,578 in summer. They have faculties of engineering, architecture, mechanical engineering, chemistry, and technology. The technical institute at Vienna had 92 professors and teachers and 1,282 students; that at Grätz 53 professors and 217 students; the German technical institute at Prague 49 professors and 338 students, the Bohemian 59 professors and 612 students; the institution at Brünn had 38 professors and 119 students, and that at Lemberg 46 professors and 217 students. Of the 2,785 students, 2,376 were Austrian, and 409 from other countries; 1,327 were of German origin, 794 were Czech-Slavonians, 333 were Poles, and the rest of different nationalities. As to religion, 2,039 were Catholics, 567 were Jews, 112 Evangelicals, and 58 Oriental Greeks. There were 304 stipendiaries in the winter semester of 1882-'83, who received 52,710 gulden ($20,715). The numbers fell in summer to a total of 2,449 students, of whom 154 were stipendiaries, with 23,355 gulden ($9,178). The superior agricultural institution in Vienna had 39 professors and teachers and 508 students in the winter semester. The mining academy at Leoben had 21 professors and teachers and 172 students, and that at Pribram 8 professors and 21 students, at the end of the year 1882-'83. The ten art schools had 35 teachers and 453 students. The forty-five Latin-Catholic theological schools had 228 professors and teachers and 1,666 students, of whom 240 were stipendiaries, receiving 19,619 gulden ($7,710); the Greek-Catholic school at Przemysl, Galicia, had 5 professors and 28 students; the Armenian-Catholic school at Vienna had 1 professor and 1 student; the Greek-Oriental school at Zara, Dalmatia, had 5 professors and 18 students, of whom 16 were stipendiaries, receiving 2,270 gulden ($892); the evangelical seminary in Vienna had 6 professors and 27 students, 10 of |
