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In 1852-53, William S. Clark, Ph.D., became "Pro- 

 fessor of Analytical and Applied Chemistry, and Instructor 

 in German." Rev. John A. Nash, A.M., became "In- 

 structor in Agriculture." In 1853-54, Professor Clark's 

 subjects were changed by substituting zoology for German. 

 In 1854-55 his sulvjects were "Chemistry, Botany and 

 Zoology." That year Professor Shepard became "Massa- 

 chusetts Professor of Natural History." 



Massachusetts Academy of Agriculture, 

 Acts of 1845, chapter 150, being " An Act to incorporate 

 the Massachusetts Academy of Agriculture," estal)lished the 

 said corporation in the town of Westborough, Worcester 

 County, and authorized it to hold $75,000 of estate, to be 

 devoted to the purposes of education. The incorporators 

 were Joseph Breck, George Denny, Marshall P. Wilder 

 et al. 



The petition for this legislation was signed by Joseph 

 Breck and nine others, and they asked for incorporation for 

 the purpose of establishing and conducting an institute for 

 practical instruction in the science of agriculture and horti- 

 culture. The committee on agriculture, to whom the peti- 

 tion was referred, by Morrill Allen, reported favorably, and 

 in their report they said : — 



Institutions of this character have been demanded by the 

 almost universal voice of enlightened farmers for a number of 

 passed years. . . . We are not informed of more than one 

 professor of agriculture in all the colleges of New England. 

 It may be difficult, if it be practicable, to establish such pro- 

 fessorships in many of our colleges, therefore, we must look 

 chiefly to subordinate institutions for the desired relief. Some- 

 thing has already been effected in several schools which have 

 been formed for the purposes of initiating lads into both the 

 science and practice of agriculture, . . . 



Massachusetts Agricultural Institute. 

 Chapter 242 of the Acts of 1848 made Edward Hitchcock, 

 William B. Calhoun, Samuel L. Hinckley, their associates 

 and successors, a corporation, by name of the Massachusetts 



