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and selection it were foolish to exact uniformity ; that wo should beware how much 

 . we pronounce indispensable, ami lio\v we allow ourselves to U>ok down upmi any one 

 unversed in what our experience has taught us t( regard as valuable, siiK-o ho may 

 have gained from something else that we an- ignorant ot an equal m greater amount 

 of discipline and enlightenment. Let US, above all things, have tliat wisdom which 

 consists in knowing how little we know ; and, as its natural consequence, tin- humility 

 and charity which shall lead us to estimate at its utmost value and to iv>p. . -t what is 

 known by our fellow." 



I am, dear sir, yours, n-speet fully, 



D. C. OILMAN. 

 General J. EATON, Jr., 



United States Commissioner of Education, Washington, D. C. 



TABLK IV. Preliminary list of local publications pertaining to the national yrant. 



CALIFORNIA. 



1862. Incorporation, organic basis and laws of the College of California. 1G pp., 8vo. 



1863. Memorial of the trustees of the College of California, asking for the national 

 grant. 



1864. Report by Professor J. D. Whitney and others, on establishing a State uni- 

 versity. 



1866. Report upon a projected improvement of the estate of the College of California, 

 by Olmsted Vaux & Co. 26 pp., 8vo., with a plat of the grounds. 



1868. Prospectus of the University, (including the legislation of the .State, by-laws of 

 the regents, &c.) pp. 43, xi, 8. 



1869. Prospectus, (including catalogue, schedule of studies, &c.,) statutes of the 

 University of California. 10 pp., 8vo. 



1870. Register of the University of California, 1870-71. 67 pp., 8vo. 



CONNECTICUT. 



1846 and every subsequent year. Catalogues of Yale College. 



Memoir of Professor J. P. Norton. New Englauder, vol. x, 1852. 

 Memorial of Professor J. P. Norton. 12mo. 



Report of the joint standing committee on education in the general assembly of 



Connecticut, (May session, 1847,) on the establishment in Yale College of a 



professorship of agriculture and the arts. (Signed by Ephraim Williams, 



chairman.) 



1856. Scientific schools in Europe, by D. C, Oilman. 11 pp., 8vo. (Printed also in 



Barnard's American Journal of Kducation.) 

 Scientific education the want of Connecticut, by D. C. Oilman. 8 pp., 8vo. 



(Printed also in the Connecticut Agricultural Society's Transactions.) 

 Appeal in behalf of the Yale Scientific School. 32 pp.. 8vo. 

 Private proposal for reorganizing the Scientific School of Yale College. (Fools- 

 cap sheet.) 



Proposed plan for a school of science in Yale College. 32 pp., 8vo. 

 Plan of an agricultural school, by Professor J. A. Porter. 8 pp., 8vo. 

 Plan of an engineering school, by Professor \V. A. Norton. 4 pp., 8vo. 

 Science and scientific schools. An address before the alumni of Yalo College at 



commencement in 1856, by Professor J. D. Dana. 

 I860. Agricultural lectures at Yale, College. Reported by H. S. Olcott. 12mo. 



Regulations of the Scientific School of Yale College, (several editions in succes- 

 sive years.) 4 pp., 8vo. 

 1863. Statement respecting the Sheffield Scientific School, laid before members of the 



legislature of Connecticut. 4 pp., 8vo. 



1864. Prospectus of the Sheffield Scientific School. 4 pp., 8vo. 

 1865. Circular of the Sheffield Scientific School. 4 pp., 8vo. 



Circular respecting a course in agriculture. -I i>]>., 4to. 

 1866. First annual report of the State visitors of the Shellield Scientific School. 40 



pp., 8vo. (Containing a history of the foundation.) 

 id67. Second annual report ot the Sheffield Scientific School, containing a description 



of Sheffield Hall, (with cuts.) 04 pp., 8vo. 

 Acts of Congress and of the Connecticut legislature, respecting the national 



grant. 4 pp., 8vo. 



On the relations of scientific education to industrial pursuits, by Professor C. S. 

 l.Ninaii. An address at the twenty-first anniversary of the Shellield Scien- 

 tific School. Hvo. 



On our national schools of science, by D. C. Oilman. (From tho North Ameri- 

 can Review, October, 1867.) 

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