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8 Illinois Industrial University. tably large in some departments, affording valuable facilities in the study of Natural History and Geology. The collection in Entomology is one of the largest in the West. With the aid of a late state .appropriation, valuable collections of mammals, birds, and fishes have been purchased, embracing many specimens of great rarity and value. One of the Trustees presented the full series of celebrated casts of fossils made by Prof. H. A. Ward, of Rochester, N. Y. This collection embraces the most rare and valuable fossils of the British Museum and of other great European collections, as well as those of President Hitchcock and others in America. ART GALLERY. . This Gallery is one of the largest and finest in the country. It is the gift of citizens of Champaign and Urbana. It occupies a beautiful hall, 60x80 feet, a,nd the large and beautiful display of Art objects in it surprises and delights all visitors. Perhaps no collection in the West equals it in the number and value of its specimens. Many of the great master-pieces 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, selected with reference to the literary and scientific sfudies required in the several courses, includes over 11,000 volumes. The large Library Hall, fitted up as a Reading Room, 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 periodicals are regularly received: AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL. Gardner's Monthly and Horticulturist, Western Rural, American Agriculturist, Cultivator and Country Gentleman, Williamette Farmer, Revue Horiicole, Paris, California Farmer, Farmer and Fruit Grower, Live Stock Journal, London, Journal d'Agriculture Pratique, Paris, Factory and Farm, Kansas Farmer. New England Farmer, National Live Stock Journal, ENGINEERING. Prairie Farmer, Encyclopedic d'Architecture, Paris, Practical Farmer, Engineering, London, Rural New Yorker, Architektonisches Skizzen-buch Berlin Western Farmer, English Architect, London, Wallace's Monthly, Railroad Gazette, Gardner's Chronicle, London, Scientific American, Scientific American Supplement, Agricultural Gazette, London, The Builder, London, Western Agriculturist,
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