188 Pohjtechnic Jlall— Farmers' College. [April, 



On motion of Mr. Foote, the thanks of the Society were ordered 

 to be tendered to the " order" by our Corresponding Secretary, for 

 their friendly greeting. 



Mr. Buchanan laid upon tlie President's table cuttings of some 

 choice pears from Elliot's gardens, Cleveland; one a new pear call- 

 ed Lycurgus. 



The special order of the day — Mr. Ward's essay on vegetable 

 circulation — was announced by the Chair, and Mr. J. Ward pro- 

 ceeded to the discussion of his theme. He said it was a good rule, 

 but not always observed, that when men essayed to teach, they 

 should only say what they knoiv. Every elementary writer on sci- 

 entific subjects actually undertakes to tell more than he himself 

 knows; i e. he docs not l-noiv all he says to be true. Hence, the 

 writer this year contradicts the writer of last year, simply because 

 the first did not know the truth of that whereof he afiirmed. 



(To BE Continued. ) 



POLYTECHNIC HALL, FARMERS' COLLEGE. 



(see engraving. ) 



Science is evidently progressing with rapid strides. Apparatus has 

 been greatly perfected and simplified, and discovery follows dis- 

 covery, both in abstract science, and in its application to the arts. 



A few hundred years since, its votaries dared not exhibit evea 

 their meager knowledge openly, lest they should have been accused 

 of witchcraft. The Alchemist labored secretly in dungeon and gar- 

 ret, but now wide airy halls invite all who wish, to enter and follow 

 with comfort and even pleasure, the paths of knowledge. 



It has been the design of the founders of our institution, to fur- 

 nish the very best means and appliances for the pursuit of all kinds 

 of sciences, and in carrying out their plans they have erected, in ad- 

 dition to the ordinary College building, (the chief of which was 

 represented in our last number) one especially devoted to the natur- 

 al sciences, and named Polytechnic Hall. Its neat and graceful ex- 

 terior honors the taste of the architect who designed it, as the read- 



