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other buildings with them as to form an impressive quad 

 rangle on the upper part of the university property. To 

 this plan Mr. Cornell gave his hearty assent. It was then 

 arranged, with his full sanction, that the university build 

 ings should ultimately consist of two great groups: the 

 first or upper group to be a quadrangle of stone, and the 

 second or lower group to be made up of buildings of 

 brick more freely disposed, according to our future needs 

 and means. Although this plan has unfortunately been 

 departed from in some minor respects, it has in general 

 turned out well. 



Having called a number of professors and seen founda 

 tions laid for &quot;Merrill Hall,&quot; I sailed in April of 1868 

 for Europe, in order to study technical institutions, to 

 purchase needed equipment, and to secure certain profes 

 sors such as could not then be found in our own country. 

 Thus far my knowledge of higher education in Europe 

 had been confined almost entirely to the universities; 

 but now I went carefully through various technical 

 institutions, among them the English Agricultural Col 

 lege at Cirencester, the Agricultural Experiment Station 

 at Eothamstead, the French Agricultural College at 

 Grignon, the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers at Paris, 

 the Veterinary School at Alfort, the German Agricul 

 tural College at Hohenheim, the Technical School and 

 Veterinary College at Berlin, and others. As to equip 

 ment, wherever I found valuable material I bought it. 

 Thus were brought together for our library a very large 

 collection of books in all the principal departments ; physi 

 cal and chemical apparatus from London, Paris, Heidel 

 berg, and Berlin; chemicals from Berlin and Erfurt; the 

 only duplicate of the royal collection of cereals and grasses 

 and the great collection of British patent-office publica 

 tions from the British imperial authorities ; the Rau mod 

 els of plows from Hohenheim; the Brendel plant models 

 from Breslau; the models of machine movements from 

 London, Darmstadt, and Berlin; the plastic models of 

 Auzoux from Paris ; and other apparatus and instruments 



