APPENDIX VIII.

SCIENCE IN AMERICA. [492]

Spanish Catholic America far outdistanced English Protestant America in the cultivation of science before our time.

Professor Bourne, on science at the Spanish-American Universities,"Spanish-American science of the sixteenth century only reached inEnglish America in the nineteenth."

Dr. Chanca's letter.

Priority in medical education.

Bourne on Spanish-American anticipations.

Reasons for decadence.