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F I N E ART GALLERY.

This Gallery is one of the largest and finest in the country. It is the gift of citizens of Champaign and Urbana. A beautiful Hall, nearly 60 by 80 feet, has been fitted up as an Art Gallery, and the large and beautiful display of Art objects in it surprises and delights all visitors. Many have come from a distance to see it, and several High schools have made excursions to visit it. There is, perhaps, no collection in the West that equals it in the number and value of its specimens. Many of the great masterpieces of Sculpture are here exhibited in casts taken directly from the originals. The value of this splendid collection as a means of education is already exhibiting itself in the several departments of Drawing and Design at the University.

LIBRARY.

The Library, which has been carefully selected with reference to the scientific studies required in the several practical courses, includes now over 10,000 volumes. The large Library Hall is fitted up as a Reading Room, and is open throughout the day for study, reading and consultation of authorities. It is well provided with American, English, French and German papers and periodicals, embracing some of the most important scientific and art publications. The following is a list of the periodicals regularly received . Agricultural and Horticultural—American Agriculturist, Cultivator and Country Gentleman, California Farmer, English Live Stock Journal, Journal d'Agriculture Pratique. Paris; New England Farmer, National Live Stock Journal, Prairie Farmer, Practical Farmer, Rural New Yorker,Western Farmer, Wallace's Monthly, Gardener's Chronicle, London Agricultural Gazette, Western Agriculturist, Western Rural, Williamette Farmer, Gardener's Monthly and Horticulturist, Revue Horticole, Paris ; Kansas Farmer. Engineering—Encyclopedic d'Architecture, Paris ; Engineering, London ; Architektonisches Skizzen-buch, Berlin ; English Architect, Railroad Gazette, Scientific American, Scientific American Supplement, The Builder, London ; The Workshop, Van Nostrand's Eclectic Engineering Magazine. Literary—Edinburg Review, London Quarterly, The Nation, Educational Weekly, Library Journal, Legal Adviser, New Englander,Magaazine of American History, Illini, North American Review, British Quarterly Review, Revue des Deux Mondes, Paris ; Scribner's Magazine, Deutsche Rundschau, Berlin ; Atlantic Monthly, International Review, New England Journal of Education, American Journal of Education. Scientific—American Chemist. American Journal of Science, Grevillea, Polytechnisches Journal, Augsburg; Popular Science Monthly, Official Patent Office Gazette, Patent Right Gazette, Jahrbericht der Chemie, Geissen; Berichte der Deutschen Chemischen Gesellschaft, Berlin; Viehsucht, Berlin; American Naturalist, Annalen der Chemie, British Microscopic Journal, Comptes Rendus, Paris; Journal of the Franklin Institute, Nature, London. News—Champaign County Gazette, Rantoul Journal, Champaign Union, Champaign Times Urbana Republican Douglas County Review, Danville News.