The chief inspectors of schools in the Amur provinces informed the mayor of Vladivostok that upon the solicitations of the general governor to have a technical school in this city, the Government at St. Petersburg ordered: (1) To prepare plans and estimates for the erection of such a school, not to cost above $180,250; (2) to appropriate $25,750 annually for the support of such a school; (3) to confer with the navy department whether it is willing to contribute a part to these appropriations, and (4) to have the school opened some time during the next five years.

PROPOSED UNIVERSITY AT VITEBSK, RUSSIA.

For the purpose of having a university established in the city of Vitebsk, western Russia, the city council donates 119 acres of urban land. Several councilmen offer 108 acres additional. The land is valued at $240,000. There is an appropriation by the city of $300,000. The donations amount to over $500,000.

NAVIGATION SCHOOL IN ODESSA.

On November 30 last a new building for a navigation school was opened in Odessa, which cost $125,000. The money was supplied by the Government, the city, and merchants.

VLADIVOSTOK, SIBERIA, December 18, 1903.

R. T. GREENER, Commercial Agent.

CHAPTER XV.

FOREIGN UNIVERSITIES AND OTHER FOREIGN INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN 1903.

I. Universities arranged according to date of founding.

II. Other seats of learning arranged according to date of founding.
III. Universities, etc., arranged according to number of students.

IV. The same arranged alphabetically.

V. Universities arranged according to countries.

VI. Polytechnica arranged alphabetically.

VII. Agricultural, forestry, and mining schools arranged alphabetically.
VIII. Veterinary schools arranged alphabetically.

INTRODUCTION.

The author of "Minerva, Jahrbuch der Universtäten der Welt" (K. Trübner), which is the chief source of information offered in the following lists, says that he has submitted his work at various stages of completion to different professors of the countries mentioned, so that he is assured that his decision as to which of the learned institutions of the world should be regarded as universities is upheld by the most trustworthy authority. He describes his Jahrbuch as a collection of names of teaching bodies, of universities, or similar institutions of the world.

Since Volume 2 of this Report of the Commissioner of Education contains direct information concerning the higher institutions of learning in the United States, they have been omitted from the following lists, which are devoted exclusively to foreign institutions:

I. Foreign universities arranged according to age--Continued.

I. Foreign universities arranged according to age-Continued.

II. Other higher seats of learning arranged according to age.