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TWENTIETH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MASS. 

 AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. 



To His Excellency the Governor and the Honorable Council : 



Since the last report was made, important changes have 

 occurred anions^ the officers of government and instruction 

 in the college. Edward C. Choate of Southborough has 

 been elected trustee in place of William Wheeler, resigned. 

 Both of these gentlemen are OTaduates of the college. 

 The resignation of the Hon. Levi Stockbridge, as presi- 

 dent, has removed from the college one who has been iden- 

 tified with it from the beginning, and who, by his long and 

 successful labors here, has won for himself a high position 

 among the agriculturists and educators of the countr}'. His 

 place was filled by the election of P. A. Chadbourne, late 

 president of Williams College and formerly president of this 

 institution. Mr. A. B. Bassett has been elected to the chair 

 of mathematics and physics, and is performing his work 

 with marked skill and success. The chair of agricul- 

 ture, left vacant by the resignation of President Stockbridge, 

 has been temporarily filled in a very acceptable manner by 

 Mr. John W. Clark. Dr. Manly Miles, formerly of the 

 Michigan Agricultural College, has been elected to this chair 

 and commences his instruction the present term. Mr. Clark 

 will continue as associate instructor in agriculture, having 

 care of the class work in the field. Robert W. Lyman, 

 Esq., of Belchertown, a graduate of the college, has given 

 instruction in rural law, and Dr. Edward Hitchcock, Jr., in 

 elocution. The president has given instruction in general 

 zoology, entomology, and mental philosophy. In the pres- 

 ent year he is also to give instruction in geology. He also 

 conducts religious worship on the Sabbath in the college 



