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University ot Illinois.

of tools and machines have been made during the last year. Mining Engineering is illustrated by a valuable series of models, obtained from Freiburg, illustrating sections of mines, machinery for elevating and breaking ore, with furnaces and machinery for metallurgical processes.

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 masterpieces 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 shown in the work of the School of Drawing and Design of the University. Museum of E)irjh>tjering and Architecture.—A large room is devoted to the gathering of a museum of practical art, the materials for which are constantly accumulating in the various schools of science. It contains full lines of illustrations of the work of the shops; models made at the University or purchased abroad; drawings in all departments; patent-office models, etc.; samples of building materials, natural and artificial: with whatever may be secured that will teach or illustrate in this most important phase of University work; the elegant exhibit made by the University at the Centennial and Cotton Exposition at New Orleans finds a permanent abode in this apartment. A notable feature of this collection is the gift of Henry Lord Gay, Architect, of Chicago. It consists of a model in plaster, and a complete set of drawings, of a competitive design for a monument to be erected in Rome, commemorative of Victer Emanuel, first King of Italy. The monument was to be of white marble, an elaborate gothic structure, beautifully ornamented, and 300 feet high. Its estimated cost was