that it may rescue from, oblivion some of the papers which have had an important 

 influence upon this movement in behalf of scieutitic education. Additions to the lit. 

 for future publication, are earnestly solicited.* 



EXTENT TO WHICH THE OFFERS OF CONGRESS HAVE BEEN ACCEPTED. 



I am informed by inquiry at the Land Office, tli.it every State in the Union has ac- 

 cepted and taken measures to secure the grant of land which was offered l>y Congress. 

 In Arkansas and Florida the scrip has been temporarily withheld l>y tin- authorities ia 

 Washington because of some unsettled claims which tBOfltDflnl government has upon 

 these States. The scrip for Georgia has been prepared but not yet delivered. The 

 States of' California, Iowa, Kansas. Michigan. Minnesota. Missouri. Nebraska. Nevada. 

 Oregon, and Wisconsin, (ten in all.) have located their claims within their own terri- 

 tory ; and the remaining States, Alabama, Connecticut. Delaware. Illinois, Indiana, i 

 tucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi. New Hampshire. 

 Jersey. New Voik, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Khode Island, South Carolina, 

 Tennessee, Texas, Vermont. Virginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsin, (twenty-live in 

 number,) have received land-scrip which has been or will be sold for the hem-tit of the 



State. 



The following table exhibits the number of portions of land (amounting to 30,000 

 acres for every Representative and Senator in Congress) to which the scvera 1 st at es were 

 entitled; the whole number of acres allotted upon this principle ; and an indication as 

 to whether the State has located the land within its own borders, or has received scrip 

 entitling the holder to locate elsewhere. The table has been officially revised in the 

 Land Office. 



TABLE II. Distribution of land to the several States for colleges of agriculture and the me- 

 chanic arts. 



* Unsettled. 



FINANCIAL RESULTS OF THE LAND CHANT. 



It is desirable on many accounts that the financial management of the congiv 

 endowments should be publicly reported, and yet it is still very difficult in many > 

 to give an absolute statement of the result of the grant. For example, in N;w York, 

 the land-scrip was mostly disposed of at a fair price to Hon. Ezra Cornell, who located 

 it with great skill, and who i.s now selling portions of his allotment, from time to time, 

 and giving to the university which bears his name the whole accrued prolit. What 

 the entire endowment is worth no one can tell. 



In California, Iowa, Kansas. Michigan, Mimi'-sot a. Missouri, Nebraska. Nevada. Oregon, 

 and Wisconsin, all or nearly all the claims of each Stale are located within its own bor- 

 and only a portion of the same is yet sold. Foreseeing the ultimate value of t!u- 

 land, the legislature in more than one instance has temporarily advanced a sum of mone> 

 to the college or university entitled to the grant, in the certainty that. in a lew 

 this outlay will lie reimbursed. One State, at lea.-t. appears to havo followed the poi- 



* Sen Table IV, at end of article. 



