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tains about ten lecture rooms and about thirty additional rooms 

 occupied as laboratories and museums. The rooms are all large, 

 lofty, and well-lighted, and the numerous museums are filled with 

 immense collections of illustrations and specimens of surpassing 

 interest and value. The veterinary department, in addition to its 

 lecture rooms and museums, occupies a separate building in the 

 fourth side of the quadrangle, which is separated from the main 

 college building by a space of about 40 yards. This distance is 

 found to be sufficient to prevent any nuisance from the live stock 



AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL AND EXPERIMENT STATION AT LYNGBY 



kept in the stables and hospitals. No live stock is kept in the 

 college except what is required for the instruction of the veterinary 

 students. 



The total number of students attending the college during the 

 past session numbered about 300, of whom about 130 were students 

 of Agriculture proper, including Dairying, while the remainder were 

 students of Forestry, Horticulture, Land-surveying, and Veterinary 

 Science. The course of study in Agriculture extends normally over 

 two years, but a supplementary third year's course is given, and is 

 attended usually by a small number of advanced students who are 

 quahfying for appointments as agricultural teachei*s. Of the total 

 number of agricultural students, Professor Bang expressed the 

 opinion that about one-half intended to return to farming, and the 

 remainder were preparing themselves for various situations. The 

 students, as in the Scottish universities and colleges, are non- 

 resident, and provide their own board and lodgings in the city as 

 they please. The fees charged for the regular courses of instruction 

 are very low, amounting to not more than £3 to £4 each. No 

 shorter courses of instruction are arranged than for a period of two 



