382 AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 



RHODE ISLAND. 



Brown University — Agricultural and ScientiJiG Department, at Provi- 

 dence, Rev. E. G. Kobhison, D. £>., LL. D., president. — A change has been 

 luadc during tlie present year iu the course of study in practical science, 

 by which agriculture is made an important part. In addition to the 

 other branches of the course, instruction is given in zoology and com- 

 parative anatomy, taxidermy, structural and systematic botany, on the 

 diseases of domestic animals, tbe habits of useful and injurious birds 

 and insects, iu arboriculture, including i^omology ; in horticulture, in- 

 cluding propagation of plants by seed, cuttings, hiyers, budding, graft- 

 ing, and inarching ; on composts and preparation of ground for diflerent 

 kinds of crops; on sowing, planting, and harrowing, with descriptions 

 of various agricultural implements. The course occupies three years, 

 and students who complete it successfully receive the degree of bachelor 

 of philosophy. The State assembly express their entire satisfaction 

 with the course as now improved. 



Valuable additions have recently been made to the museum of natural 

 history by the purchase of a large collection of birds belonging to the 

 cabinet of the late John Cassin, esq., and also by the donation of the 

 extensive collection of the late William Blanding, M. D., of Philadel- 

 phia. It contains 4,800 specimens of birds, 50 of quadrupeds, 200 of 

 fishes and reptiles, 1,200 of insects, 8,500 of minerals, 3,500 in zoology 

 and paleontology, 4,400 in conchology, besides numerous others of gen- 

 eral interest. 



As the agricultural department of this university has no farm, we are 

 unable to report any experiments in practical agriculture. The number 

 of students in the agricultural and scientific department during the 

 present collegiate year is 27 ; in the university, 204. 



SOUTH CAROLINA. 



Clafiin University — South Carolina Agricultural College and Mechanics? 

 Institute, at Orangeburgh, Rev. A. Webster, D. D., president. — This uni- 

 versity occupies one of the most beautiful and healthful locations in the 

 State, and it is the design of the trustees to make it ultimately a hrst- 

 class institution, equal in literary merit to any iu the country. It em- 

 braces five departments, the theological, collegiate, agricultural, normal, 

 and preparatory. The faculty consists of llev. A. Webster, D. D., 

 president; H. J. Fox, D. D., professor of natural sciences; E. A. Web- 

 ster, professor of ancient languages ; and W. H. Crogman, professor in 

 the normal department. 



The principal building of the university, formerly occupied by the 

 Orangburgh Female College, has recently been put in thorough repair, and 

 contains fifty rooms well adapted to college purposes. A new and sub- 

 stantial building, 2G by 50 feet, was completed in October of the present 

 year, and will afford four ample recitation-rooms, which have been fitted 

 up audfurnished with improved modern school-furniture at an expense of 

 about 85,000. In the erection of this edifice liberal aid has been re- 

 ceived from Hon. William Clafiin, of Massachusetts. An additional 

 building has been iiurchased for the i:)reparatory department, and a 

 limited number of pupils of both sexes will be admitted, and required 

 to pass through a regular course of study to prepare them properly for 

 entering a higher department of the university. 



On the 12th of March, 1872, the legislature of the State incor- 

 porated the South Carolina Agricultural College and Mechanics' Insti- 



