Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1867 [PAGE 18]

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18 rate of compensation, the Committee are not without hope that no lose need result, even if no profit is gained.

APPARATUS OF ILLUSTRATION AND INSTRUCTION.

Each department in the University will require, besides the general cabinets or collections, some means of illustration and instruction peculiar to itself. For general study of the natural sciences there'will be needed full and well classified collections of specimens in mineralogy and geology, in botany and in the various branches of zoology. The departments of agricultnre and horticulture will require in addition, cabinets of seeds, grasses, grains and fruits ; models or drawings of farming and garden implements, of farm buildings, and plans of farms, gardens, celebrated parks, and landscape gardens, etc.; and specimens and drawings of various breeds of domestic animals. The department of mechanics and civil engineering, will demand a cabinet of models and drawings of machinery, architectural plans, plans of roads, bridges and other structures, and' specimens of building materials, as the various woods, marbles, granites and more common building stones. The military department will require its specimens or drawings of the various kinds of arms and military structures, together with plans of celebrated battle-fields, sieges, encampments, etc. The department of fine arts will require casts, photographs or engravings of the great master-pieces in art. These may be obtained at reasonable rates, and original drawings, paintings and sculptures will, in due time be added. The healthful, refining and stimulating influence of such collections on the minds of the young, must be seen to be properly appreciated.* The common working apparatns of instruction must embrace a good set of chemical and philosophical apparatus. The prominence due to chemistry in such an institution as this, will demand, at the earliest practicable day, a separate and suitable building for a chemical laboratory, such as exists at Harvard, Yale and Amherst, and at the Michigan University. The experimental farms, orchards and gardens, wfth the several stock barns, yards, pens, etc.; the mechanic shops, tools and machinery; the military arms and parade grounds; the engineer's tools, and the model counting house, will furnish the fitting apparatus for teaching in the several leadirig departments of special instruction. As the collection of cabinets is a work of years, it is important that it begin at once, aud that applications for duplicate specimens, casts, etc., be made as early as practicable, wherever they may be obtained. The friends of the University in the various sections of the State would doubtless donate many specimens, if a brief circular, containing a statement of our wants, and instructions for packing and forwarding, were sent out.

FACULTY.

The committee were also instructed "to suggest a faculty" for the University. In the entire work of organizing the institution, there is