154 AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. 



POST-GRADUATE COURSE. 



Graduates of colleges and scientific schools may become 

 candidates for the degree of doctor of science, or doctor of 

 philosophy, from the college or from the universit}-, and pur- 

 sue their studies under the direction of Professor Goessmann 

 in chemistry, or other members of the faculty in their re- 

 spective departments. 



BOOKS, APPARATUS, AND SPECIMENS IN NATURAL HISTORY. 



The library of the college contains about two thousand 

 volumes. Among them are several sets of cyclopaedias, 

 magazines, and newspapers, reports of agricultural societies 

 and State boards of agriculture, and many standard works 

 on atjriculture and horticulture. There are also manv use- 

 ful works of reference in chemistry, botany, surveying, and 

 drawing. 



The faculty and students also have the privilege of draw- 

 ing books from the excellent library of Amherst College, 

 which contains over thirty thousand volumes. 



The State cabinet of specimens, illustrating the geology 

 and natural history of Massachusetts, has been removed from 

 Boston to the college, and is of much value for purposes 

 of instruction. 



The Knowlton herbarium contains more than ten thou- 

 sand species of named botanical specimens, besides a large 

 number of duplicates. The Botanic Museum is supplied 

 with many interesting and useful specimens of seeds, woods, 

 and fruit-models. There is also a set of diagrams illustrat- 

 ing structural and systematic botany, including about three 

 thousand figures. 



About fifteen hundred species and varieties of plants are 

 cultivated in the Durfee plant-house, affording much pleas- 

 ure and information to students and visitors. 



The class in microscopy has the use of seven of Tolles's 

 best compound microscopes, witli objectives from four inches 

 to one-eighth of an inch in focal distance, and a variety of 

 eye-pieces. 



