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separate sessions, $23,000 for the use of the School of Horticulture, and individuals have often favoredi t by liberal donations of plants, machinery, etc. Further aid is promised, and appeal is now made to friends everywhere for assistance in furnishing the fruit and tree plantations with the fullest possible stock, in the building and furnishing of green houses and conservatories, and in the enlargement of the scientific collections in the aboretum and botanical garden. A catologue of the plants now in the houses and upon the grounds is ready for the printer, and when finished, will be forwarded to parties wishing to exchange or contribute.

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING.

FACULTY. T H E REGENT.

S. W. ROBINSON, Professor of Mechanical Engineering. J. B U B K I T T W E B B , Professor of Civil Engineering. HAROLD HANSEN, Instructor in Architecture and Drawing. S. W. SHATTUOK, Professor of Mathematics. A. P. S. STUART, Professor of Chemistry.

D O N CARLOS TAFT, Professor of Geology and Zoology.

ADMISSION.

Applicants should be at least eighteen years of age ; and none will Ve admitted under fifteen. They will be examined in the following branches : English Grammar, Geography, History of the United States, Arithmetic, and Algebra to the equations of the second degree; also in Plane Geometry. Applicants for admission in September, 1873, will be examined in Algebra, through Powers and Roots of any degree, Calculus of Eadicals and Quadratic Equations, and in Natural Philosophy. For admission in September, 1874, the examination will include all of Geometry, and the elements of Botany and Physiology. Students will find it much to their advantage to present themselves at the opening of the Fall Term, and commence their studies with the regular classes. Advanced students will be received into the First, Second or Third Year Class, upon passing satisfactory examinations on all the previous studies of the class.