ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE 165 



(1) In the fundamental sciences, that is in botany, 

 chemistry, zoology, soil-study, agricultural chemistry, 

 and mathematics. (This course is for those students 

 who desire to become teachers and experts.) 



(2) In agriculture, ordinary and special, that is the 

 cultivation and amelioration of the soil, agricultural 

 chemistry, and the growing of sundry crops. 



(3) In the breeding, tending, anatomy, and diseases 

 of animals, &c. 



(4) In every branch of knowledge connected with 

 dairy-work. 



The college receives women as well as men. The 

 women study gardening, agriculture, and in one case, 

 land-surveying. Also ladies come to it from cooking- 

 schools to the number of thirty or forty a year in 

 order to acquaint themselves with the fundamental 

 sciences enumerated above. These ladies pass a 

 special examination, but the college does not grant 

 them any diploma. 



The total students, male and female, number 

 from 400 to 500. Of these 200 study the veterinary 

 sciences, of whom a varying proportion come from 

 Norway, where, as I was told, no veterinary college 

 exists. 



Of agricultural students there are from 100 to 120, 

 some of them natives of foreign countries. Thus at 

 the time of my visit there were several from Finland, 

 one from Bulgaria, and one from Roumania. The 

 land-surveying students average about 40, the forestry 

 students about 60, and the gardening students about 

 20. Most of the students begin their course at from 

 eighteen to twenty years of age ; but there is no age 

 limit they can enter at any time of life. 



The term lasts from the 1st of September to 



