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is not only one of the genteelefl: and moft beautiful of public 

 improvements ; but it alfo comprifes within a fmall compafs, 

 the Hiftory of the Vegetable Species of our own Country ; 



municipal law, with relation to the rights of property and of perfons, and the forms of 

 adminiftering juftice, both civil and criminal, -will then be treated fully and at 

 large. 



n. Under the Faculty of Phyfic; 



1. The Dean of the Faculty, Samuel Bard, M. D. isLeilurer on Clinical Medicin?; 

 in the New- York Hofpital. The cbjeils of this courfe are all ^ch medical cafes occurring 

 in the Hofpital, which, from their nature or importance, aru more particulaily worthy 

 the attention of the {Indents. Thefe being in the firft place feleded by the teacher, 

 who is alfo one of the Phyficians of the Charity, are vifitcd and attended with regularity, 

 examined publicly before the fludents, and the fymptoms, prefcriptions and daily 

 alterations recorded. Thefe in due time become the fubjeifts of ledures, in which the 

 charaderiflic figns of difeafes, the indications of cure, the effedsof remedies, and every 

 other circumftance of importance, are'dlfcufled; for which ufeful purpofe the Hofpital 

 affords a fulhcient number of interefting cafts; and although a different corporation from 

 that of the College, is regulated and governed in fueh a way as to further the inflruiSiive 

 views and purpofes of the College in the completeft manner. 



2. Botany is here a diftincl branch of fcudy, and the ProfcfTor is Samuel Latham 

 MiTciiiLL, M, D. In this courfe, befides the difcuffion of the Linnrean or fexual 

 fyfi.cm, the explanation of terms and phrafes, and the arrangement or claffificaticn of 

 the vegetable fpecies, an attempt is made by the ProfefTor, who is a praiflical farmer, 

 to elucidate and explain the economy of plants, their affinity to animals, and thcr organization, 

 excitability, fllmull, life, difeafes, and death of both claflcs of beings. The phyfiology 

 of plants, including their food, nourilhment, growth, refpiration, perfpiration, 

 germination, &c. is therefore particularly enlarged upon, as conncifted v/ith g.'^p.denint, 

 and FARMING This is a fumrncr courfe. 



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