6 Royal Agricultural College of Cirencester. 



establishment of the College, in which morning' and evening 

 prayers are read daily by the Principal, besides the usual services 

 on Sundays. The inore ornamental portions of the chapel have 

 been executed by private subscription. 



The farm-buildings are on a large scale, and stand about a 

 quarter of a mile from the College. Adjoining a well-arranged 

 rickyard is an ample barn, with granary, a fixed steam-engine, 

 thrashing, chaff-cutting, grinding, and other machinery attached ; 

 and at one end of this pile of building is the dwelling-house of 

 the farm manager. At the other end are the implement and cart 

 sheds. To the east are the carpenters' and smiths' shops, slaughter- 

 house, and weighing-machine for cattle. The next row of build- 

 ings is devoted to the stables, harness-house, «Scc., with piggeries 

 on the west side ; and a third comprises a double row of cattle- 

 boxes, on the west of which are two yards for store cattle, sur- 

 rounded by covered sheds. 



Adjoining the turnpike-road from Oxford to Bath, which 

 intersects the farm, is a Veterinary Hospital, under the manage- 

 ment of the Veterinary Professor, fitted up for the reception of 

 all animals requiring operations, or treatment for disease, acci- 

 dent, or other ailments. The public are invited to send animals 

 so circumstanced, which are treated at a moderate charge, in 

 order that the Students may have the advantage of ocular 

 demonstration of disease and its treatment, by the Professor in 

 aid of his lectures in the theatre. 



In the cultivation of the farm are employed Mr. Fowler's 

 steam-engine, plough and cultiA^ator attached, besides an assort- 

 ment of all the most improved implements. 



The permanent establishment of the College, under the general 

 superintendence of the Council, consists of the Principal, a Cler- 

 gyman of the Church of England ; the Farm Manager and 

 Demonstrator ; the Chemical Professor and his assistant ; and 

 Professors of Botany, Veterinary Surgery, Mathematics, and Sur- 

 veying, all resident ; and a Drawing Master. Gentlemen dis- 

 tinguished for their ability in the respective sciences connected 

 with agriculture are secured to give occasional courses of Lec- 

 tures, in addition to those of the resident staff.* 



There are four Sessions in the year, in each of which a com- 

 plete course of lectures is given in each department of science 

 taught at the College. The programme for each week comprises 

 instruction in practical agriculture, on the farm daily, commencing 

 6*30 A.M. Lectures are distributed over the remainder of the 



* Among these the names of Dr. Anderson, Professor Gamgee, Mr. Bailey 

 Denton, Mr. J. C. Morton, Mr. T. Duckham, Mr. J. T. Davy, Mr. R. S. Burn, Mr. 

 Hewitt Davis, Mr. Thornhill Harris, Mr. Algernon Clarke, Mr. Baldwin, and Pro- 

 fessor Morris, may be mentioned. 



