Since 1988 (Volume VII) there have been two new sections, one devoted to research in progress and the other to an on-going bibliography of recent publications in the history of higher education throughout the world.Michael McVaugh and Luis Garcia Ballester: The Medical Faculty at Early Fourteenth-Century Lérida; Thomas E. Morrissey: The Art of Teaching and Learning Law: a Late Medieval Tract; Mario Rizzo: University, Administration, Taxation, and Society in Italy in the Sixteenth Century: the Case of Fiscal Exemptions for the University of Pavia; G. L. E. Turner: Experimental Science in Early Nineteenth-Century Oxford; Hans-Georg Schneider: The Threat to Authority in the Revolution of Chemistry; Notker Hammerstein: The Modern World, Sciences, Medicine, and Universities.