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day, excepting Saturday, on the following^ subjects : — Cliemistry, 

 applied, or2:anic and inor<2:anic ; l)otany ; veterinary surgery, 

 anatomy, and pathology ; therapeutics ; mechanics, mensuration, 

 surveying, and drawing to those who desire such instruction. 



Such is an outline ol this Institution and its establishment, 

 provided by the disinterested contributions and munificent sup- 

 plemental support we have described, for the advantage of the 

 rising generations of agriculturists, at a cost exceeding 50,000/. 



To say one word on Professors. The Council in early days 

 fortunately enlisted in the cause of agriculture the services of 

 Professor Way, though these were lost to the College on his 

 promotion to the post of Consulting Chemist to the Royal Agri- 

 cultural Society, and subsequently were transferred to more 

 advantageous employment for the public at large. His successor 

 Dr. Voelcker until very recently held the two appointments con- 

 jointly, with mutual advantage to each Society. The Council 

 have since been fortunate enough to engage the services of Mr. 

 Church, a gentleman of considerable eminence as a chemist, who 

 is now resident at the College. 



Happih", both the late Mr. Haygarth and his successor, the 

 present Principal, had eminently qualified themselves for this 

 post, by cultivating a natural taste for general science to an extent 

 unusual in members of their profession. Mr. Constable not only 

 fulfills with zeal and energy the duties which strictly belong to 

 his appointment, but is competent and anxious to assist students 

 in the general course of their studies, especially those connected 

 with practical agriculture. In furtherance of this object, he has 

 lately prepared and published an excellent Manual, entitled ' A 

 Guide to the College-Farm and Cultivation-Book, for the use of 

 Students.' 



There is no greater mistake than the too prevalent notion that 

 any member of a family who has not sufficient capacity for more 

 intellectual avocations may, with very little previous instruction, 

 become a successful agriculturist ; and that whilst most handi- 

 crafts require a seven years' apprenticeship, residence with a 

 farmer or at this College for a year or two is an all-sufficieut 

 preparation for undertaking a farm. Our own observation would 

 lead us to recommend any youth resolving on agriculture as his 

 occupation in life to place himself with a tenant-farmer for a 

 year, to acquire what may be called the Grammar of Agricul- 

 ture ; with this preparation he would be in a position to derive 

 greater advantage from a two years' course of instruction at the 

 College ; after this, two years' residence with a skilful farmer, 

 with careful daily observation and the study of the most approved 

 agricultural literature, would form a reasonably safe foundation 

 to work upon. 



