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student the absence of the best foreign (English or American) agri- 

 cultural literature, in this library as in all other German libraries with 

 which the writer is acquainted, will seem strange. In the laboratorie* 

 of the institute are found special small, but good, reference libraries, 

 which are accessible at all times and are of great service to students. 

 There is also a reading room, where current numbers of the leading 

 German (and other continental -European) agricultural papers and 

 scientific magazines arc kept. 



The museum of the Gottingen Agricultural Institute was founded 

 in 1851 by Professor Gripenkerl, and therefore represents half a cen- 

 tury's growth. The agricultural faculty have here from year to year 

 deposited collections in their respective lines of instruction and inves- 

 tigation, with the view of making it valuable for instructional pur- 

 poses rather than of establishing an agricultural museum. The 

 collection of feeding stuffs contains samples of feeds used by Henne- 

 berg in his fundamental studies on the nutrition of farm animals, and 

 numerous other specimens in the museum bear testimony of investi- 

 gations conducted at Gottingen during the latter half of the nineteenth 

 century. The rich collections thus accumulated form invaluable 

 material for demonstration and are constantly utilized by the pro- 

 fessors in their lectures. 



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