EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Vol. XIII. No. 2. 



From statistics reeentl}^ collated by this Office, it appears that edu- 

 cational institutions receivinj^ the benefits of the acts of Congress of 

 JiUy 1, 18(>2, and August 30, 1890, are now in ()i)enition in all of the 

 States and Territories, but not in Alaska. Hawaii, Porto Rico, and the 

 Philippines. The total number of these institutions is 6.5, of which 

 62 maintain courses of instruction in agriculture. 



The aggregate value of the permanent funds and efjuipment of the 

 land-grant colleges and universities in 1900 is estimated to be as fol- 

 lows: Land-grant fund of 1862, $10,72.5,180. .31; other land-grant funds, 

 $1,528,141.37; other permanent funds, $15,017,963.80; land grant of 

 1862 still unsold, $3,570,907.80; farms and grounds owned by the 

 institutions, $5, 659,731.26; buildings. $16.781. 9(58. 63; apparatus, 

 $1,156,619.19; machinery, $1,738,369.88; libraries, $1,326,889.13; mis- 

 cellaneousequipment, $1,519,048.33; total, $59,325,119.70. The income 

 of these institutions in 1900, exclusive of the funds received from the 

 United States for agricultural experiment stations ($719,999.07), was 

 as follows: Interest on land grant of 1862, $677,870.33; interest on other 

 funds, $726,229.70; United States appropriation under act of 1890, 

 $1,198,100.21; State appropriation (annual or regular), $1,889,288.31; 

 State appropriation (occasional), $744,184.07; tuition fees, $390,334.08; 

 incidental fees, $254,337.26; miscellaneous, $550,694.68; total, $6,431,- 

 038.67. The value of the additions to the permanent endowment and 

 equipment of these institutions in 1900 is estimated as follows: Per- 

 manent endowment, $1,917,941.16; buildings. $948,377.94; library, 

 $119,312.81; apparatus, $151,405.35; machinery, $141,667.15; miscella- 

 neous, $129,288.49; total, $3,407,992.90. The numl)er of persons in 

 the faculties of the colleges of agriculture and nuM-hanic arts were as 

 follows: For preparatory classes, 333; for collegiate and special classes, 

 1,642; total, 2,013. In the other departments the faculties aggregated 

 842, making a grand total of 2,855 persons in the faculties of the land- 

 grant institutions. The students in 1900 were as follows: (1) By 

 classes — preparatory, 6,541; freshmen, 7,512; sophomores, 5,036; 

 juniors, 3,648; seniors, 3,072; special, 12,964; postgraduate, 732; total, 

 39,505. (2) By courses— agriculture, 5,Of)6; mechanical engineering, 

 3,932; civil engineering, 1,964; electrical engineering, 1,617; mining 



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