10 INTRODUCTION. 



The Yale Scientific School, is the Scientific Department of 

 Yale College, sustaining the same relation to the parent insti 

 tution as the schools of Law, Medicine, and Divinity. Its 

 Faculty consists of seven Professors of the following branches, 

 viz. : Civil Engineering, Industrial Physics and Mechanics, 

 Geology and Mineralogy, Metallurgy, General and Applied 

 Chemistry, Organic Chemistry and Agricultural Chemistry. 

 Its course of study extends through two years. The Engineer 

 ing Department has recently instituted a third year's course of 

 higher studies, and the new degree of Civil Engineer. Within 

 a few months the school will enter upon the occupancy of a 

 new and commodious building recently erected for its accom 

 modation, at an expense of forty thousand dollars, by a friend 

 of the Institution. This building contains, beside its laborato 

 ries, recitation rooms and lecture halls, ample accommodations 

 for an extensive agricultural museum. A handsome fund for 

 this especial object is already accumulated, and will be largely 

 increased and in part expended during the present summer. 

 This movement, although subserving completely the objects of 

 the winter course on Agriculture, has by no means exclusive 

 reference to this course, but is to be regarded as a development 

 of the permanent Agricultural Department of the Institution 

 which remains in session during the whole year. 



The new building not being completed as was anticipated, 

 the late course was given in a public hall in the city of New 

 Haven. The lectures were commenced on the first day of Feb 

 ruary, and on the twenty-fourth day of that month were brought 

 to a close. Twenty-six gentlemen, distinguished in various 

 specialties of agriculture, participated directly in the work of 

 instruction, and not less than five hundred persons were attract 

 ed to the city of New Haven during its progress. Three or 

 four lectures were given each day, and the time not thus occu 

 pied was devoted to inquiries on the part of the audience, and 

 to discussions thus suggested. These discussions, in which 

 other gentlemen of experience besides the lecturers took an 



