80 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



graduates of the College ^Yho return to it in order to continue some line of study. 

 It is a gratifying proof of the regard in which the College course of study is 

 held, of the interest which has heen awakened, and of the increased attention 

 paid to studies hitherto unknown in college courses and neglected, that gradu- 

 ates return, for a longer or shorter period of study, to an extent almost unex- 

 ampled, except in the oldest and most prosperous colleges of the land. 

 K. G. Baied, Scc^y. T. C. ABBOT, PremlenL 



State Agkicultueal College, ) 

 Laminrj, Midi., Sept. 30, 1876. \ 



REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY. 



To tho President of the College. 



It is with pleasure that I report a successful and prosperous year in the De- 

 partment of Chemistry. The attendance has heen larger than in previous years, 

 and the students have been distinguished for their steady attendance and enthu- 

 siastic devotion to their studies and work. 



SPRING TEEM'. 



Junior Class. — In the spring term I gave a full course of lectures on Agricul- 

 tural Chemistry, the lectures being illustrated and enforced by appropriate ex- 

 periments. The whole number attending these lectures was eighteen. 



Sopliomore Class. — To the Sophomore Class I gave a full course of lectures on 

 Inorganic Chemistry, illustrated by copious experiments. According to my 

 usual custom, I met the class one evening in each Aveek of the term for a chem- 

 ical conversation, in which tho topics of previous lectures were discussed in a 

 free conversational manner. This is not a required exercise, but almost every 

 student availed himself of this opportunity, and felt it was to his profit to be 

 irniformly present. Some instruction and practice in chemical manipulation 

 was afforded the class, to make them familiar with the simpler details of pre- 

 paring and j^erforming chemical experiments. It is my earnest desire to extend 

 this course, so as to make all our students skillful in performing all the experi- 

 ments in practical chemistry ; to make them not only theoretical, but practical 

 chemists. The whole number of students attending lectures on Inorganic 

 Chemistry this term was forty-seven. 



SUMMEE TEEM. 



Junior Class. — The Junior Class pursued the study of Chemical Physics, com- 

 pleting the study with the exception of Electricity. This Avas a recitation, but 

 the subject was illustrated by experiments. The total number of students in at- 

 tendance was nineteen. 



Sophomore Class. — To the Sophomore Class I gave a course of lectures on 

 organic chemistry with illustrative experiments. I also gave a short course of 

 lectures on volumetric analysis, followed by a course of analysis by volume, in 



