with other institutions or departments? How many are permanent and how many are 

 temporary appointments? What difficulties are experienced in filling vacancies f 



XI. Students. Number; grade; aim in life. Are women admitted as scholars f Are 

 there post-graduate students ? 



XII. Discipline. Of what character ? 



XIII. Religious and moral instruction. 



XIV. Military instruction. How given ; with what results ? 



XV. Manual labor. Is it required? Is it provided? Can students earn their own 

 support? Does work interfere with study? * 



XVI. Hoarding-houses, lodging-halls, $c. What views are held in regard to their im- 

 portance and their management? 



XVII. A id for needy students. How provided? 



XVIII. Results of the work of Hie Institution. 



XIX. Bibliography. What pamphlets, reports, addresses, magazine and newspaper 

 articles have been printed in relation to the college? Copies of all legislative enact- 

 ments, publications, catalogues, &c., are requested. Particular care in the preparation 

 of statistics is specially entreated. 



With this understanding, that such inqtiiries are soon to be prosecuted, I shall limit 

 my report at the present time to those points on which Congress and the public may 

 naturally seek for information immediately, without respect to the more complete 

 and detailed reports of the future. 



PRINTED SOURCES OF INFORMATION. 



To begin with, I am confident that an indication of the printed sources of informa- 

 tion on this subject will be serviceable at home and abroad. 



The publications of your predecessor in this Department (Hon. Henry Barnard) 

 have already included many statements and documents pertaining to the scientific 

 schools of this country, to which the investigator should refer. In the report for 

 1867-'68 the enactments of Congress bearing date July 2, 1862, and July 23, I860, are 

 given in full, and that of February 2-4, 1867, is succinctly stated. The legislation 

 consequent upon the congressional appropriation is .also given (generally with com- 

 pleteness) for the States below mentioned, viz: California, Connecticut, Delaware, 

 Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, 

 Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, 

 Vermont, West Virginia, Wisconsin in all, twenty-two States. The more recent 

 legislation in Missouri and California will be appended to this report. 



In the same report there are also descriptions, more or less detailed, of thirteen 

 institutions, in twelve States, founded or aided by the national land grant. 



Dr. Barnard has also prepared an elaborate volume on technical instruction in 

 Europe. Dr. J. W. Hoyt, one of the American commissioners at the Paris exhibition, 

 in his report on education has likewise paid especial attention to the subject of tech- 

 nical education, and collected at home and abroad many of the facts which bear upon 

 it. In the reports of the Commissioner of Agriculture special notice has been annually 

 taken of the agricultural colleges. Especially noteworthy are the volumes for 1868 

 and 1885. In the report for 1865, Hon. H. F. French, then president of the Massachu- 

 setts Agricultural College, discusses many of the most important topics bearing upon 

 agricultural colleges, and gives detailed accounts of the agricultural schools then 

 organized in the country. 



The report for 1868 contains an important paper by Professor J. H. McChesney, of 

 Illinois, on Agricultural Education in Germany, which is of interest not only on 

 account of the recent facts which it presents, but for the incidental expressions of 

 opinion and comparison. 



Besides these national reports, all, or nearly all, of the institutions which are recipi- 

 ents of the national grant have published one or more reports of progress. 



The law of Congress requires that these reports be annually sent to the Secretary of 

 the Intcrioi', and to each of the affiliated colleges. It is very important that this 

 clause should be complied with, for thus publicity, one of the securities of good man- 

 agement, is effectually gained ; but judging by the experience of one institution, I 

 doubt whether the law is now regarded. 



The principal documents of the several States which have come under my eye are 

 named in the following list. It includes those which have been sent to the Sheffield 

 Scientific School, to Professor W. H. Brewer, and to myself, during a long series of 

 years. Notwithstanding the pains we have taken, we have not succeeded in making a 

 complete series. 



Many of the reports are only printed with the legislative documents, and are very 

 difficult to procu^j; others are printed in small editions and nuickly disappear. It is 

 believed, however, that the publication of a preliminary list, incomplete though it 

 is, will be of service to those who wish to form a like bibliographical collection, and 



