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Baton Rouge, lias given $32,000 to the university for the erection of a 

 fireproof library' building as a memorial to his son. The State legis- 

 lature at its recent session appropriated #47,000 for the erection of a 

 dormitory and a building for the mechanic arts department, and $8,500 

 for furnishing the library building mentioned above. The usual 

 appropriation of §15,000 for the experiment stations was made, and 

 the appropriation for the State geological survey, which is under the 

 charge of the director of the stations, was increased to 82,500 a year 

 for two years. 



Pennsylvania State College is also fortunate in receiving several 

 large gifts, as follows: By Andrew Carnegie, $100,000 for a library 

 building; bj' Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Schwab, $60,000 for an assem- 

 bly hall, and by James Gilbert White, class of '82, $10,000 for a 

 graduate fellowship and $10,000 additional for three undergraduate 

 scholarships. 



The Virginia Polytechnic Institute has added a new science build- 

 ing to its equipment which provides for the departments of general 

 and analytical chemistry, biology, mineralogy and geologj^, and 

 phj^sics. 



The number of large appropriations for agricultural buildings, in 

 which provision will be made for instruction in the subdivisions of the 

 science of agriculture, indicates quite clearly a growing tendency not 

 only to recognize the importance of instruction in agriculture, but also 

 to recognize agriculture as a science. 



The financial and statistical reports of the colleges receiving appro- 

 priations under the act of August 30, 1890, which in accordance with 

 the law are regularly forwarded to the Secretary of Agriculture, have, 

 as hitherto, been deposited in this Office. On the basis of these reports 

 and replies to special circulars of inquirj-, this Ofi&ce has published 

 statistics relating to the agricultural colleges for the j'ear ended June 

 30, 1901. Reports for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1902, have now 

 been received. 



SECONDARY AND ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS. 



Institutions for secondary and elementary instruction in agriculture 

 are becoming more numerous. Schools of this class already estab- 

 lished have been continued, new schools are being established, and 

 courses of instruction in agriculture, nature study, and gardening are 

 being introduced into existing public and private schools. In Cali- 

 fornia $50,000 has been appropriated by the State legislature for the 

 establishment of the California Polytechnic School, which has been 

 located on a tract of 280 acres at San Luis Obispo. For the present 

 attention will be confined to instruction in agriculture. Another 

 new agricultural school of high-school grade is the "Winona Agri- 

 cultural and Technical Institute at Winona Lake, Ind., which will be 

 opened for students this fall. The Hartford (Conn.) School of Horti- 

 culture is a new institution which has this year given instruction 

 and practical work in gardening to over 160 grammar-school children 

 at Hartford. On an adjoining farm is the Watkinson Farm School, 

 where 20 to 30 boys find a home and instruction in agriculture. At 

 Lowthorpe, Groton, Mass., a School of Horticulture and Landscape 

 Gardening for Women has been opened. The two county agricultural 

 schools provided for bj* the Wisconsin legislature in 1901 have been 

 organized and will be opened this fall. At Springfield, Mass., The 

 Home Correspondence School has been organized, with the professor 



