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tical experiences and for investigation of its special problems — similar 

 facilities to those long ago accorded, e. g.. to medicine. Teachers 

 who lack this opportunity to verif}^ and enlarge the knowledge of the 

 principles of agriculture can not do the best work for their students 

 or for their profession. 



A reorganization of the Gottingen Agricultural Academy took place 

 durino- iSTl-lSTo. to a large extent in accordance with the ideas which 

 J. Kiihn advanced and advocated with signal success. The new agri- 

 cultural institute of the University of Gottingen (PI. XV) dates from 

 this period. New buildings were erected, laboratories built, the 

 Weende Experiment Station was removed to the agricultural institute 

 (in ISTi), and experimental grounds, with garden and greenhouse, 

 were provided for. Later changes made have been comparatively 

 few, and only one of greater importance, viz, the recent establish- 

 ment of an agricultural-bacteriological institute, the first one of its 

 kind in the world, so far as is known. 



Tlie attendance at the institute during late years, according to the 

 published university catalogue, has l)een about 30. A number of spe- 

 cial students, however, take single lectures or special laboratorj' work 

 in the institute Avithout being registered as agricultural students, so 

 that the actual number of students attending lectures of professors or 

 working in the laboratories of the institute is somewhat greater than 

 the ligure given, l)ut is at any rate small compared witii the attendance 

 in agricultural educational institutions of similar standing in this 

 country. 



PRESENT ORGANIZATION. 



The Gottingen Agricultural Institute, as organized at present, is 

 composed of six ditferent departments, viz: 



(1) General agriculture and animal husbandry, in charge of the 

 director of the institute. Prof. W. Fleischmann. 



(2) Agricultural chemical lal)oratory of the university, Prof. B. 



Tollens, 



(3) Agricultural experimental grounds. Prof. C. von Seelhorst. 



(4) Animal physiological experiment station. Prof. Franz Lehmann. 



(5) The veterinary institute of the university. Prof. H. J. Esser. 



(6) The agricultural bacteriological institute of the university. Prof. 

 Alfred Koch. 



Axi^/^f(f/>f'^ in the agricultnraJ institute. — In one respect there is a 

 marked difference between the Gottingen Agricultural Institute and 

 Station and our American colleges and stations, viz, the abundant help, 

 skilled or otherwise, available for the routine work to be done. The 

 janitors of the European stations do a large amount of semichemical 

 work and render valuable service in many ways that those in America 

 are never called upon to do; the assistants or division heads have in 



