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report to the Board at each annual meeting, to be appended to the yearly report 

 of the Board to the Legislature, and printed for general circulation and use. 



The pupils should have the privilege of accompanying the Professor in his 

 excursions, and sharing in his observations. The practical knowledge thus 

 acquired uould illustrate the instructions of the lecture room, and prove a 

 valuable portion of the education of the future cultivators of the soil. 



The recorded results of the annual observations thus made, when summed up 

 and digested, would amount ultimately to an entire geological survey of the State, 

 undertaken and accomplished, very appropriately, through the agency of the State 

 University. The work would be done, it is true, graduall}', but economically, 

 with a just bearing on the educational and agricultural interests of the State. 



During these annual excursions, much might be done to determine the topo- 

 graphy of the State, and to enlarge the catalogue of its natural productions. 



The instructions of the Chair of Mechanical Philosophy, in addition to Theo- 

 retic Mechanics, should embrace the doctrine of moving forces in all their 

 variety; their ditferent modes of application, and the history of invention. 

 These instructions should be illustrated by models of machinery, exhibiting the 

 combinations of the elementary mechanical powers known in the arts, and their 

 practical working in the production of their several results. 



The pupils in this Department, if not wholly occupied in their professional 

 studies, should have access to the recitations and lectures of the other Chairs in 

 the University : and to the library, cabinet, and other collections in natural 

 science, on such terms and conditions as the Board of Regents may prescribe. 



The Teachers' Class in the Normal Department of the University, should be ad- 

 mitted to the instructions of the Department of Applied Science, without charge. 

 2. The endowment necessary to carry into efl'ect this entire plan, would consist: 

 First, of an appropriation sufficient for the construction and fitting up of a labo- 

 ratory and philosophical chamber, with suitable apparatus; and the purchase, 

 improvement, and stocking of the model farm. — Second, of a sufficient annual 

 Bum to defray the current expenses of the two professorships. 



The first of these items — the original outlay — could not safely be set down 

 at less than 810,000 ; and the appropriation for the support of the Department — 

 the second item — should not be less than $2,500 per annum. 



Should it be thought expedient not to adopt the whole plan in the beginning, 

 and to confine the enterprise for the present, to the foundation of an Agricultural 

 Department strictly, with the single professorship of Chemistry, with special 

 bearings of that and other natural sciences on Agriculture, an annual appropria- 

 tion of 82,000 would enable the Regents of the University to provide and fur- 

 nish the laboratory, and support the Department. The Model Farm, although an 

 important appendage to the school, would not, of necessity, be large or expensive. 



