UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES IN THE UNITED STATES. [From the Report of the Commissioner of Education for 1877.]

Total.. 351 675 28,389 3,323 26,590 2,257,904 1,680,122 2,012,951 36,689,401

UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES IN THE UNITED STATES,

1872-1877.

THE following is a statement of the aggregate number of this class of institutions, with instructors and students, as reported to the Bureau of Education each year, from 1870 to 1877, inclusive:

SCHOOLS OF MEDICINE IN THE UNITED STATES.
[From the Report of the Commissioner of Education for 1877.]

The following is a comparative statement of the number of schools of medicine, dentistry, and pharmacy reported each year from 1870 to 1877 inclusive, with the number of instructors and students :

STATES.

SCHOOLS OF LAW IN THE UNITED STATES.
[From the Report of the Commissioner of Education for 1877.]

LAND GRANTS FOR EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES.
This table shows the area of the several States and Territories containing Public
Lands, and the quantity devoted for educational purposes by Congress from
1789 to June 30, 1878.

[Compiled from the Annual Reports of the Commissioner of the General Land Office.]

*The whole quantity liable to be issued under the act of July 2, 1862, is 9,600,000 acres. NOTE.-Under an act of Congress approved Sept. 4, 1841, eaeh State thereafter admitted to the Union was granted 500,000 acres of land for purposes of internal improvement; 46,080 acres (72 sections) for a State University; 32,000 acres (50 sections) for the purpose of erecting public buildings at the Capital; and 32,000 acres for a penitentiary or State prison. The same grant of 500,000 acres was extended to the States of Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, and Missouri. The quantity of land thus granted is estimated at 9,000,000 acres.

By act of July 2, 1862, each State, old or new, was granted 30,000 acres of the public domain for each Senator and Representative in Congress (or land scrip to that amount) for the purpose of endowing a College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts in cach State. Of the 9,600,000 acres estimated to be due the States under this munificent land-grant, about 8,200,000 acres have already been located.

NUMBER OF ELECTORS IN FRANCE.

IN the French Republic, suffrage is practically universal, there having been inscribed on the registers of the Ministry of the Interior by an official report dated April 1, 1876. 9,948,070 legal voters, out of a population the same year of 36,905,798 in France. This gives 1 voter to every 4 inhabitants, nearly. In the United States, by the census of 1870, the ratio of legal voters to population was 1 to 4%, nearly In Great Britain, where suffrage is restricted, the proportion is 1 voter to every 11 inhabitants.

STATISTICS OF LAND GRANTS.

Land Grants by Acts of Congress to States and Corporations for Railroad Furposes, from the First Grant in 1850 to June 20, 1878.

[Compiled from Reports of the Commissioner of the General Land Office.]