Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1868-1869 VERSION A [PAGE 14]

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1869 to January 22 inclusive, and was very encouraging in its results, both in the number in attendance, and in the interest manifested. Dr. Warder's course of from 12 to 20 lectures is delivered at the same time, and is open to all. Board and comfortable quarters will be provided, at reasonable rates, for as many as attend. It is hoped that arrangements for reduced fare on the several railroads will be effected. APPARATUS OF INSTRUCTION. A valuable set of philosophical apparatus has been received and large additions will soon be made. A special Laboratory has been fitted up and supplied with apparatus and chemicals, so that excellent facilities are now furnished to those who wish to acquire a thorough knowledge of practical chemistry. As soon as students shall have become acquainted with the general principles of the science, no pains will be spared to familiarize them with it in its applications to agriculture, and other industrial pursuits, and to awaken in them a love for scientific investigation. They wilL;have access to minerals, ores, and geological specimens, and be taught how to analyze them. A library of standard works on general and analytical Chemistry will soon be purchased ; and English, French, and German periodicals will furnish information of the most recent views and discoveries in this department of scienceDuring the past term and a half ten students have been at work for two hours daily in the Laboratory and have made very satisfactory progress. Valuable collections have been received for cabinets in Mineralogy, Botany Geology, Palaeontology, Conchology, and in several departments in Zoology. Professor Powell, of the chair of Natural History, is now absent in charge of a scientific expedition to the region of the Colorado of the North; and the students in the practical work of their classes, and in organized expeditions tnder the authority of the Board of Trustees, are constantly making additional collections. The apparatus for the engineering department is ample for its present needs, and of the best quality. Additions will be made as the department requires. The illustrative aparatus in the Department of Agriculture is designed to be very full and complete. The University owns over one thousand acres of improved farming lands, equal to any in the State. Forty acres are set apart for gardens, nurseries and arboretum. The remainder is to be used for experimental and stock farms, orchards, etc. Through the liberality of manufacturers, the University is rapidly accumulating a collection of agricultural implements; and cabinets and drawings of specimen fruits, vegetables, etc., will be added as fast as practicable. The ornamental grounds around the buildings already contain a variety of evergreens and flowering plants. A collection of maps, charts, models and engravings, is also begun, and is being steadily increased by donation or purchase.