States and classes.

structors.

TABLE 4.-Summary of statistics of schools of medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, and for nurses and veterinarians, for 1896-97-Continued.

Volumes in libraries.

TABLE 4.-Summary of statistics of schools of medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, and for nurses and veterinarians, for 1896-97-Continued.

TABLE 5.-Statistics of professional and allied schools for a series of years.

a So far as reported.

b Not indicated in table of the Education Report for that year.

e Distinction between medical schools having courses of two and three years in 1875 and 1880 can not be made with entire certainty.

d There were five postgraduate schools.

e Preparatory schools.

There were seven postgraduate schools, with 1,533 students.