234 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



The College Buildings. — The college, which adjoins the park 

 and woods of Earl Bathurst, is sitiiated on the farm, about a 

 mile and a half from the town. The principal front, 190 feet 

 long, has a south aspect, and commands an extensive view over 

 North Wiltshire. The buildings include a chapel, large dining 

 hall, library, museums, lecture rooms, laboratories, class rooms, 

 private studies, kitchens and servants' offices ; with apartments 

 for resident professors, and ranges of dormitories on the upper 

 floors. The whole building is lighted with gas, and furnished 

 with ample supplies of water. The best methods of warming 

 and ventilation have been adopted. Each student has a sepa- 

 rate sleeping apartment, and private studies are allotted to the 

 meritorious students, as they become vacant. 



The Farm. — The farm, which surrounds the college, contains 

 about 500 acres, of which 450 are arable, of a varied soil and 

 character. The farm buildings are spacious, and well adapted 

 for carrying out the purposes for which the college was founded. 

 A steam engine, with improved mechanical arrangements, fur- 

 nishes all the power for threshing, grinding, &c. 



Live stock, of various kinds, are bred and reared on the farm. 

 Experiments are tried on portions of the various rotations ; and 

 where the results are satisfactory, they are carried out on a 

 larger scale. A botanical garden, of ample extent, enables the 

 professor, under whose charge it is, to instruct practically in 

 the botany of agriculture ; and to show to the students various 

 experiments in vegetable physiology. 



The Veterinary Hospital^ is under the immediate superin- 

 tendence of the professor of the department, assisted by a curator 

 selected from among the more advanced students. Animals of 

 all kinds are received for treatment, so that the students have 

 opportunities of witnessing operations 2ki\dipost mortem examina- 

 tions. 



Museums. — The college possesses a valuable collection of 

 geological specimens, minerals and other objects of natural 

 history ; also an interesting set of anatomical and pathological 

 preparations — such as casts of teeth, to illustrate the age of the 

 horse, sheep and other animals ; and is now provided, by the 

 gift of Messrs. Peter Lawson & Son, of Edinburgh, with the 

 extensive museum of economic botany, prepared by those gen- 

 tlemen for the international exhibition of 1862. This collection 



