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APPARATUS.

To give a practical character to the special studies of the course, the school is provided with ample horticultural grounds of about 130 acres, including 20 acres of forest plantations, 10 acres of ornamental grounds several acres of nurseries, and large garden plats. It has an apple orchard of 3,000 trees of about 1,400 varieties, a pear orchard of nearly 400 varieties, and small fruits of many kinds. It has also two green houses well filled with rare exotics and flowering plants. It is supplied with the best garden machinery and tools. It has also many plans of ornamental grounds and parks. Admission.—The conditions of admission are the same as those for the School of Agriculture. The course of recommended studies is as follows : FIRST YEAR. First Term.—Geometry, Chemistry, English or Latin; History, two lectures a week. Second, Term.—Botany, Chemistry, English or Latin; History, two lectures a week. Third Term.—Botany Analytical Chemistry, English or Latin. SECOND YEAR. First Term.—Soils and Fertilizers. Vegetable Physiology, Trigonometry and Surveying, German or Chemistry. Second Term.—Plant Culture, Chemical treatment of Soils, Manufacture of Manures, Drawing and mapping, Zoology, German or Chemistry, Physics Third Term.—Mechanical treatment of Soils and Drainage, Entomology, German or Chemistry, Physics. ^ THIRD YEAR. First Term.—Fruitgrowing, orchards, etc.; Comparative anatomy and physiology, French or History. Second Term.— Nursery plans and records, Geology, French or History. Third Term.— Vegetable garden and small fruits, Political Economy, Book-keeping, French or History. FOURTH YEAR. First Term.—Hot and green houses, Rural Economy and rural Law, History of English and American Literature. Second Term.—Rural Architecture, Physical Geography and Meteorology, History of Civilization. Third Term.—Landscape gardening. Geology of Illinois, History of Philosophy and Inductive Logic.

COLLEGE OF MECHANICS AND ENGINEERING.

FACULTY.

THE REGENT. S. W. ROBINSON, Professor of Mechanical Science and Engineering. S. W. SHATTUCK, Professor of Mathematics. A. P. S. STUART, Professor of Applied Chemistry. ALEX. THOMSON, Teacher of Railroad Engineering. JAMES BELLANGEE, Teacher of Architectural Drawing. This College for the present embraces the following Schools : 1st, the School of Mechanical Science and Engineering. 2d, the School of Civil Engineering. 3d, the School of Mining, and 4th, the School of Architecture.

1.—SCHOOL OF MECHANICAL SCIENCE.

The aim of this School is to fit students to become Blechanioal Engi-