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institute. Its headquarters will be at the Conservatoire des Arts et des 
Metiers, in Paris, with an experimental area of 50 hectares (1263 acres) 
at Vincennes, four miles east of the city. The great ideas of Gasparin 
will direct its re-organization, and its resources will be devoted to the 
highest scientific instruction, leaving minor specialities to the regional 
and farm schools, which are better adapted to specific lines of inquiry 
and experiment. Three great regional high schools make a special 
study of the agricultural needs of the northern, western, and southern 
regions of France. The school of Grignon, in the department of Seine- 
et-Oise, not far from Paris, devotes chief attention to grande culture, 
grasses, cereals, “ industrial” crops, and stock breeding, which have a 
characteristic development in the high culture of the northern depart- 
ments. An agricultural station attached to this school gives facilities 
for extended experimental researches. The school of Grand-Jouan, in 
the department of Loire-Inferieure, studies especially the methods of 
bringing virgin lands under culture, mixed pastoral husbandry, tenant- 
farming, natural meadows, live-stock breeding, ‘ industrial” and fruit 
crops, &c., with reference to the less elaborate agricultural system of 
the west and center. The school of Montpellier, in the department of 
Hérault, represents the agricultural peculiarities of the Mediterranean 
region, embracing the replanting of forests, irrigation, and other great 
enterprises. Its sericultural and viticultural station gives special facili- 
_ ties for the development of two grand leading interests of southern agri- 
culture. The farm-schools still further differentiate the methods of ex- 
periment and instruction of young farmers, so as to adapt them to the 
wants of local communities. With all these facilities for specific lines 
of investigation and discipline, it is evidently the true policy to confine 
the movements of the great central university to the higher and more 
abstract truths which underlie the whole subject of agriculture. Hence 
the experimental area will be quite limited compared with its original 
dimensions, and its management will be directed only to the investiga- 
tion and illustration of general principles. 
The law for the re-organization of the institute passed both houses of 
the French legislature August 9, 1876. Two days later the minister of 
agriculture announced the commission of re-organization, embracing the 
leading agriculturists, private and official, of the republic. This com- 
mission have established the following among their general regulations: 
The pupils will be divided into two general classes, day pupils and free 
hearers ; no boarding pupils being admitted, as in the regional and farm 
schools in the rural districts. Day pupils must either present diplomas 
showing that they have received from some respectable literary institu- 
tion the degree of bachelor of science, or they must pass examination in a 
course of study equivalent to what is usually required for such a degree. 
Free hearers are admitted without apy questions as to literary qualifi- 
cations. Day pupils pay a tuition-fee of 300 francs per annum; free 
hearers, 25 francs. Four scholarships of 1,000 francs foundation and 
two of 500 franes have been established. Ten gratuitous scholarships 
are to be divided equally between the regular graduates of the subordi- 
nate agricultural schools and other claimants. Diplomas will be given 
to those satisfactorily completing the course of study, and the two high- 
est in scholastic merit in each graduating class will receive a compli- 
mentary mission of extended study either in France or in some foreign 
country. 
By decree of October 9, 1876, on the nomination of the commission 
of organization, the minister of agriculture, M. Teisserenc de Bort, ap- 
pointed the following members of the board of instruction and experi- 
