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The first document is the resolution of the corporation, 

 establishing two new professorships, passed August 19, 

 1846: 



Whereas, it has been represented to this corporation, that a benefactor 

 of the college proposes to give five thousand dollars for the endowment 

 of a Professorship of Agricultural Chemistry, and of Vegetable and 

 Animal Physiology, provided that twenty thousand dollars be raised for 

 that purpose: 



Resolved, That there be established in this college, a Professorship of 

 Agricultural Chemistry and of Vegetable and Animal Physiology, for the 

 purpose of giving instruction to graduates and others not members of the 

 undergraduate classes: and that the corporation will now proceed to 

 elect a professor of those branches of science, that while efforts to 

 complete the endowment are in progress, he may devote himself to studies 

 preparatory to his entering on the duties of that office — it being under- 

 stood and provided that the support of this professor is in no case to be 

 chargeable to the existing funds or resources of the college. 



Resolved, That there be also established a Professorship of Practical 

 Chemistry, for the purpose of giving instruction to others than members 

 of the undergraduate classes, in respect to the application of chemistry, 

 and the kindred sciences, to the manufacturing arts, to the exploration of 

 the resources of the country, and to other practical uses; and that a 

 professor be now appointed to that office, whose compensation, till other 

 provision can be made, shall be derived exclusively from fees for instruc- 

 tion, and for other services. 



Resolved, That President Day and Professors Silliman, Kingsley, 

 Olmsted, Woolsey and Salisbury, be a committee to report at the next 

 annual meeting of the corporation, or at any intervening meeting which 

 may be convenient, their opinion of the expediency of arranging under a 

 distinct department of the university, those courses of instruction which 

 are or may be given to others than members of the undergraduate classes, 

 and which are not included in the departments of theology, law and 

 medicine, and that if in their opinion such a department is expedient, 

 they report such arrangements and regulations as may be requisite for 

 the full organization of the department. 



