786 EXAMINATION OF PROFESSOR HENRY 



lrshment of technical schools of various kinds? — I think it 

 was for agricultural colleges. 



1452. At any rate, hitherto it has been appropriated to 

 agricultural colleges, whatever the intention of the vote 

 may have been? — Yes, I think that is the case. 



1453. You have stated that the United States Govern- 

 ment is not in the habit of making large grants for the pur- 

 poses of investigation, and that it does not give any great 

 support, if any support, to the universities, but you stated 

 also, did you not, that universities are founded and sup- 

 ported by some of the individual States ? — Yes ; but I should 

 state that the General Government does support two impor- 

 tant schools, in both of which scientific education is pre- 

 dominant. These are the Military Academy at West Point 

 and the Naval Academy at Annapolis. 



1454. Can you give the Commission any more detail upon 

 the subject of the sustenance which is given to the colleges 

 by the States ; take for instance the State of Massachusetts ? 

 — I am not able to do so. I have not paid special attention 

 to the details. The General Government has within the last 

 two years appointed a Commissioner of Education, whose 

 duty it is to collect statistics on the subject and to prepare a 

 report upon the education of the various States. 



1455. But be} 7 ond that the scientific education is left in 

 the hands of the States ? — Yes. 



1456. You have stated that in the primary schools of most 

 of the States no instruction in science is given except in 

 geography, but you have a system, have you not, of graded 

 schools ? — Yes, in certain States. I believe in Pennsylvania 

 the pupils begin with the primary school, and they advance 

 to a high school, and, I think, from that to the University 

 of Pennsylvania. 



1457. Could you state what amount of scientific instruc- 

 tion is given in the secondary schools of the different States? 

 — I should think it was very small, but I do not know. 



1458. And with respect to the universities, have you any 

 knowledge of the amount and the quality of the scientific 

 instruction which is given in them ; take, for instance, Har- 

 vard College and the Cornell University? — Harvard Uni- 

 versity gives a very thorough course, and affords the means 

 of instruction to resident graduates. It has lectures on 

 physics, chemistry, and natural history, and there is a scien- 

 tific school connected with Harvard University. The Cor- 

 nell University is a new establishment, and is yet unde- 

 veloped. 



1459. At the Harvard University is the attendance at the 



