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Illinois Industrial University.

ART GALLERY.

The University Art Gallery is one of the largest and finest in the West. It was the gift of citizens of Champaign and Urbana. It occupies a beautiful hall, 61x79 feet, and the large display of Art objects has surprised and delighted all visitors. In sculpture, it embraces thirteen full size casts of celebrated statues, including the Laocoon group, the Venus of Milo, etc., forty statues of reduced size, and a large number of busts, ancient and modern, bas reliefs, etc., making over 400 pieces. It includes also hundreds of large autotypes, photographs, and fine engravings, representing many of the great master-pieces of painting of nearly all the modern schools. Also a gallery of historical portraits, mostly large French lithographs of peculiar fineness, copied from the great national portrait galleries of France. The value of this splendid collection, as a means of education, is already showing itself in the work of the School of Drawing and Design of the University.

LIBRARY.

The Library, selected with reference to the literary and scientific studies required in the several courses, includes over 12,000 volumes, and additions are made every year. The large library hall, fitted up as a reading room, is open throughout the day for study, reading, and consulting authorities. It is intended that the use of the Library shall largely supplement the class-room instruction in all departments. Constant reference is made in classes to works contained in the Library, and their study encouraged or required. The reading-room is well provided with American, English, French, and German papers and periodicals, embracing some of the most important publications in science and art. The following periodicals are regularly received:

AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL. Prarie Farmer. Western Rural. Country Gentleman. Breeder's GazetteIndiana Farmer. New England Farmer. Michigan Farmer. Farmer and Fruit Grower. Iowa Homestead. Agricultural Gazette, London. Gardner's Chronicle, London. Journal d'Agriculture Pratique, Paris. Rev ue Horticole, Paris. American Agriculturist, Western Agriculturist. Live Stock Journal. Horticulturist. Farmer's Review. Veterinary Journal. Recueil de Medicine Veterinarie, Paris.

ENGINEERING.

Encyclopedie d'Architecture, Paris. Engineering, London. Building News, London. Builder, London. Skizzen-buch, Berlin Transactions American Society of Civil Engineers. Scientific American. Engineering" News Engineering and Mining Journal. Scientific American Supplement.