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4. Agricultural architecture, and 



5. Civil engineering, as connected with agriculture. 



AUXILIARY SCI1CNCK8. 



1. Chemistry. 



2. Natural philosophy. 



3. Mineralogy and geology. 



4. Botany and physiology of plants. 



6. Zoology. 



6. Study of the properties of the atmosphere. 



7. Mathematical sciences — 



a Arithmetic. 



b Theoretical and practical geometry. 



c Mechanics, 



8. Drawing of machines, animals, plants, and landscapes. 



To illustrate the sciences, there should be — 



1. An extensive farm, with a field for experiments, work- 



shops, beet-sugar manufactory, mill, &c. 



2. A botanical garden. 



3. A collection of the best and most approved imple- 



ments, or models of them. 



4. A library. 



6. A collection of minerals, properly arranged, according 

 to their chemical characters, and with relation to 

 their difterent soils. 



6. An apparatus for mathematical and physical instruc- 



tion. 



7. A collection of skeletons of domestic animals, for the 



study of comparative anatomy and the veterinary 

 art. 



8. A collection of insects. 



9. A collection of seeds. 



10. A laboratory, with apparatus for chemical experi- 

 ments. 



THE FARM 



Serves for the practical accomplishment of the theory. It 

 is of the greatest importance to give a practical illustration 

 of all the objects and manipulations treated of in the course 

 of the lectures, and according to the different periods and 

 seasons. 



The husbandry of such an institution must, therefore, be 

 extensive and complicated, so as to show all branches of 

 agriculture in their full extent. The operations which are 

 not possible to be shown on a large scale should be exhib- 

 ited on the experimental field. It should contain : 



640 acres of land, for cultivation, which should be divided 



