370 AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 



disposed of. The State gave to the college last year $65,000, and from 

 all these sources it receives an annual income of about $8,000. 



The number of students in attendance in the college during the col- 

 legiate year ending in June, 1872, is 58 ; in the university, 322. 



University of Missouri— School of Mines and Metallurgy, at Bolla, Daniel 

 Read, LL. D., president. — This school is located in Phelps County, a 

 district abounding in mines of iron, copper, lead, and zinc. It was 

 opened November 23, 1871. In addition to the president the i'aculty 

 consists of Charles P. Williams, A. M,, director and professor of gen- 

 eral and analytical chemistry and metallurgy; Nelson W. Allen, A. B., 

 assistant professor of mathematics ; William Cooch, assistant in ana- 

 lytical chemistry and assaying. There are also two other professor- 

 ships, one of applied mathematics and engineering, and the other of 

 geology and natural history, which are filled with temporary instructors. 

 The school has two courses of study, one a pi-eparatory course occupy- 

 ing one year, and the other a higher course occupying three years, as 

 follows : 



Preparatory course. — Algebra — to quadratic equations; arith- 

 metic — metrical system; rhetoric and composition ; logic; natural his- 

 tory — botany, (structural and systematic ;) elementary chemistry — ele- 

 mentary physics ; physical and industrial geography — lectures. 



Higher course — First year. — Algebra; geometry; trigonometry; 

 surveying and field practice ; general chemistry and chemical philoso- 

 phy ; physics ; mineralogy — descriptive and determinative ; crystallog- 

 raphy ; outlines of zoology ; analytical chemistry ; blowpipe and humid 

 qualitative analysis; drawing — mechanical and free-hand. Second year. 

 — Trigonometry ; analytical geometry ; calculus ; surveying — field prac 

 tice; descriptive geometry — projections, shades, and shadows; ma 

 chinery and motors; chemistry — general and industrial; metallurgy 

 physics ; analytical chemistry — qualitative and quantitative humid an 

 alysis; geology — physiological, dynamical, and historical; lithology 

 phenomena of veins and mineral deposits ; drawing — free-hand and me 

 chanical. Third year. — Calculus; analytical mechanics; field practice 

 and engineering ; topography ; metallurgy and assaying — wet and dry 

 methods ; analytical chemistry — quantative analysis ; machinery and 

 motors; mining — methods of exploration and exploitation ; extraction; 

 crushing and concentration; mining regions; drawing — maps, plans, 

 and sections of mines. 



For admission to the preparatory course applicants must be at least 

 sixteen years of age, and sustain a satisfactory examination in the ordi- 

 nary branches of an English education; and for admission into the 

 higher course of three years they must be at least seventeen years of 

 age, and pass a satisfactory examination in all the regular studies ot 

 the preparatory year. 



Lectures are delivered on human physiology, domestic hygiene, and 

 special scientific studies throughout the higher course of study. Stu- 

 dents are also exercised in the use of instruments in land and higher 

 surveying; visits are made to mines of iron, lead, and zinc ores, and to 

 furnaces for the extraction of these metals; and laboratory work is 

 performed on the products of these mines and furnaces, and work in 

 the drawing-room on notes collected during these field operations. The 

 school is provided with thoroughly equipped analytical and assaying 

 laboratories, with excellent working tables, and an abundant supply of 

 the most approved apparatus. The i)hysical aj)paratus is also of the 

 most recent and approved forms, and very complete in the specialties 

 of light, heat, electricity, and pneumatics. It receives annually from 



