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The provision at present made for instruction and the extent of the 

 course may be seen in the following list of instructors and their respec- 

 tive departments : 



C. P. Krauth, D. D., President^ and Professor of the Evidences of 

 JVatural and Revealed Religion, Political Philosophy and Ethics ; Rev. 

 H. L. Baugher, A. M., Professor of Greek Language and Literature, 

 Rhetoric and Oratory ; Rev. M. Jacobs, A. M., Professor of Mathema- 

 tics, Chemistry, and Mechanical Philosophy ; Rev. VV. M. Reynolds, A. 

 M., Professor of Latin Language and Literature, Mental Philosophy 

 and Logic ; M. L. Stoevet, A. M., Professor of History and Principal 

 of the Prejoaratory Department; Rev. C. A. Hay, A. M, Professor of 

 German Language and Literature ; H. Haupt, A. M., Professor of Ma- 

 ihematics, Drawing and French ; D. Gilbert, A. M. xM. D., Lecturer on 

 Anatomy and Physiology ; J. G. Morris, D. D., Lecturer on Zoology ; 

 Messrs. A. Essick and J. K. Plitt, Tutors in the Preparatory Dejmrt- 

 ment. 



NUTRITIVE RELATIONS OF THE ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE KINGDOMS. 



The objects of the universe may present themselves as they are 

 without their relations to other things. If we examine them thus de- 

 tached, they may furnish very interesting materials for reflection and 

 gratification. Their properties both numerous and striking, cannot fail 

 to interest us. The intelligence they display solicits our homage to the 

 great Author of them. When they are viewed in their relations to other 

 things, they are still more adapted to arrest our attention, and call forth 

 our admiration. The adaptation of diiferent parts of the creation to 

 each other is so obvious that it was soon ascertained, and extensively 

 understood. It is true that the views derived from a general contempla- 

 tion were neither very clear nor very profound. In many instances 

 where the general fact of an intimate connection, a close dependence, 

 could not be overlooked, it was very imperfectly understood what was 

 the precise influence exerted, or the effect beyond its most general as- 

 pects. As an illustration we may mention the subject of respiration . 

 Tha^ the atmosphere which encompasses our globe was necessary to 

 animallife, men were not long in finding out. It was soon known that 



