372 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



was to go to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for 

 instruction in the mechanic arts. 



The first meeting of the trustees was held at the office of 

 the State Board of Agriculture, in Boston, on Nov. 18, 1863. 

 The corporation organized by the election of His Excellency 

 John A. Andrew, president; Charles L. Flint, secretary; 

 Allen W. Dodge, vice-president. A set of by-laws was 

 presented and adopted. A committee of five, consisting of 

 Messrs. Wilder, Whiting, Stedman, Durfee and Colt, was 

 chosen, "who shall have in charge the raising of subscrip- 

 tions to the funds required by law to put the Agricultural 

 College in operation, and also to consider the subject of a 

 location for the college and to receive proposals concerning 

 the same." Adjournment was taken to Jan. 5, 1864. 



The Botanic Garden. 

 By resolves of March, 1805, chapter CVIL, on petition of 

 Martin Brimmer and others, a committee of the Massachu- 

 setts Society for Promoting Agricultm'e, praying for aid 

 from government to enable them to establish a botanic gar- 

 den, certain aid was given for that purpose and a professor- 

 ship of botany was established. 



The botanic garden, founded in 1805, is situated on the 

 northwest corner of Garden and Linuean streets (Cambridge). 

 . . . The choice of a site was made in October, 1807, and to 

 this Andrew Craigie of Cambridge added the valuable donation 

 of four acres of adjoining land. The funds for its formation and 

 support were raised partly by subscription and partly by a grant 

 from the State of some wild lands in the District of Maine. 

 ... As one enters from Garden Street, to the right is the 

 garden proper, and to the left a chain of buildings in the fol- 

 lowing order: the professor's house, built in 1810; the herba- 

 rium, with a valuable library, laboratory and lecture room 

 attached, and the conservatory. The herbarium is the finest 

 in this country. , . , The ruling spirit here for over thirty 

 years was Prof. Asa Gray.^ 



> History of Higher Education in Massachusetts, by George Gary Bush. 

 United States Bureau of Education, Washington, 1891, p. 122. 



