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tures daily to the Juniors for two and a half terms, and a term's lecture in 

 zoolooy and geology, one-half term each in the Senior year. A zoological 

 museum and an apiary are in charge of the professor. 



AIATHEilATICS AND CIVIL ENGINEERING. 



This department is in charge of Professor Rollo C. Carpenter, since 1878, 

 assisted by Mr. Louis G. Carpenter, class of 1879. 



The departments are pure mathematics, mechanics, surveying, leveling, 

 civil engineering, and astronomy. The instruments for illustration are of 

 excellent quality. An observatory is furnished Avith a telescope of Mr. Alvan 

 Clark's manufacture, a clock, etc. 



Topographical and other surveys, leveling for drains, and' all repairs in 

 brick and iron, the charge of the heating arrangements of the College, and. 

 of water pipes, are with Professor Carpenter. 



BOTANICAL. 



This department, from the lirst of January, 1883, will be as distinct from 

 that of horticulture as two departments so nearly related, and mutually 

 dependent on each other, can well be ; but its limits have not been as yet well 

 defined. 



William J. Beal, M. S. Ph. D. is, since 1871, in charge of it. He has had 

 an assistant in horticultural experiments during the last two years, Mr. James 

 Troop, M. S., a graduate of the class of 1878. 



The instruction in botany begins in the summer term of the Freshman year 

 and continues through that term and a half of the autumn term. The class 

 is generally so large as to require instruction in two divisions. The Seniors 

 have laboratory work in botany two hours a day during one-half of the spring 

 term. Dr. Beal has given lectures one-half of the Sophomore year in land- 

 scape gardening. The equipments of the department are a commodious 

 building containing class-room, office and botanical museum, a large collec- 

 tion of dried plants, collections of woods and other specimens, compound solar 

 microscopes, enough for a Senior class of thirty; beds of grasses, a botanical 

 garden, and an arboretum. The park, with its trees and shrubs labeled by 

 Dr. Beal, the garden, orchards, and the farm, all furnish mtiterials ibr the 

 study of botany. 



HORTICULTURAL DEPARTMENT. 



This will be from January 1, 1883, under the management of James Satter- 

 lee, M. S., a graduate of the class of 1869, Professor elect of Horticulture, 

 assisted by a florist, Mr. James Cassidy, and a foreman. 



It will command two teams, two teamsters, and a working force of students 

 equal to that of the farm department. The department will have charge of 

 the College Park, the vegetable garden, the orchards, the nurseries, planta- 

 tions of small fruits, the greenhouse, and adjacent beds and borders, and the 

 drives and walks. 



The class instruction, as at present laid down, consists of a course of lec- 

 tures on Horticulture to the Junior class in the autumn term, but the duties 

 of the professor are not yet fully laid out. 



At present this department has a small horse barn, and a greenhouse. It 

 lacks a fruit house, and other desirable means of separate and efficient work. 

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