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board in the Academy lodge with the hou^ steward, and pay 140 marks 

 at the beginning of each session, from which is deducted monthly 

 the amount of their monthly bill. 



It is made a special condition of the appointment of the house 

 steward that he, on due remuneration, must provide food for sick 

 students, whether they take their food daily from him or not, and to 

 prepare either such food as they themselves may desire, or such as 

 may be prescribed by their medical attendant, preparing it well and 

 serving it either in their own room, or in the hospital of the Academy 

 as occasion may require. 



Amongst the numerous provisions for facilitating study at the 

 Academy of Hohenheim, many of which relate more especially to 

 agriculture and rural economy, there is a forest district of about 

 2,200 hectares or 5,500 acres, partly composed of Crown forests and 

 partly of communal forests, embracing different kinds of soil, 

 different forms of management, and different modes of culture, which 

 are under the direction of one of the two professors of forest 

 economy ; and besides this Forstrevier there are others, in the vicinity 

 of Hohenheim, to wdiich access is had, and also an arboricultural 

 experimental garden. 



There is a botanic garden of 4| hectares or 12^ acres with some 

 2,000 species and varieties of plants of importance in forest and in 

 naval economy ; and a so-called exotic garden of about 8 hectares 

 or 20 acres, laid out with a special view to instruction in forest 

 botany. 



There is a collection of models of implements, machines, and 

 structures pertaining to forest economy ; a museum of forest pro- 

 ducts, and one of forest manufactures, &c. Some of the models are 

 of full size and in working order, others are in section or constructed 

 on a reduced scale. 



A mineralogical cabinet, with a collection of geological formations 

 and fossUs employed in illustration of lectures, contains about 14,000 

 specimens. 



A botanical museum contains different herbaria, numbering con- 

 jointly 10,000 species, with several specimens of many, and a collection 

 of numerous microscopic preparations, a collection of vegetable 

 pathological specimens illustrative of diseased malformation, 

 also many models of flowers, 'fruits, furze, &c., and finally a col- 

 lection of some 7,000 specimens of fruits and seeds. There is a 

 chemical laboratory, with 16 double stations for students, provided 

 with all the necessary appliances for work. A cabinet of natural 

 philosophy containing instruments and apparatus required for in- 

 struction of the students in mathematics, mensuration, and natural 

 philosophy. A library containing about 10,000 volumes, open to the 



