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models and apparatus are constantly being made by the students, with the assistance of the director of the shops, and added to the present set of valuable illustrative apparatus of the class-room. 1ST. B.—Apparatus, of good quality, can be furnished for high schools and colleges. Orders are solicited.

PHYSICS AND NATURAL PHILOSOPHY.—This collection includes some of the

latest and most important improvements in the apparatus of physics and natural philosophy. The air pump is of the best form in use. It was made by the celebrated firm of E. S. Eitchie & Sons, of Boston, and cost $275. It has a rotary movement, combined with "Ritchie's patent action " of the piston and valves. This final step in the perfection of the air pump furnishes the means for the nearest approach to an absolute vacuum that it is possible to make by mechanical means. The electrical machine is Ritchie's Patent Holtz Machine. This remarkable machine is of recent discovery, and for this reason is found in but few of the cabinets of older institutions of learning. It is distinguished for its wonderful power and great ease of action, rendering it suitable for performing many experiments, which, with the ordinary machine, were extremely difficult. The collection also includes a Grove's Battery of six cups, an induction coil, model telegraphic apparatus, Magdeburg hemispheres, vacuum -tubes, receivers, magnets, and other accompanying apparatus.

HUMAN ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY are taught by the aid of a finely-mounted

French skeleton, a French manikin, and large models of the eye, the trachea, lun°*s etc., and numerous anatomical plates of life-size figures. GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY are illustrated by some of the best maps, charts, engravings, plans of cities, etc. CIVIL ENGINEERING.—The apparatus for surveying and engineering embraces all the field instruments necessary for making Government land surveys, farm surveys, railroad and topographical surveying and leveling, as the Transit Theodolite, a Level from Newton & Co.'s, London, with two levelingrods—the ordinary and the self-reading; a first-class Vernier compass; best brazed-link steel chains—Gunter's and Engineer's ; also the necessary instruments for the new Stadiar surveying, as adopted in the Government surveys. MILITARY. 150 muskets and accoutrements complete; 12 cavalry swords; 1 bass drum ; 1 tenor drum ; 3 fifes; 2 bugles; 18 fencing muskets for bayonet practice; swords, gauntlets and masks, for sword practice ; automaton regiment, for theoretical instruction; and a large drill hall to be erected this summer. The library also includes quite a selection of books on military science, military history and engineering. LIBRARY AND READING ROOM. The library contains over 4,000 volumes; and is especially rich in books relating to agriculture, mechanics, engineering and the arts; and in natural sciences, history, biography and literature. The large Library Hall is fitted up as a reading room, and richly provided with American, English, French and German papers and periodicals, embrac-