296 MICHIGAN STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE 

 UNIVERSITY OF HALLE 



PRESENTED BY DELEGATE DR. K. STERNBRttCK, WHO SPOKE, FIRST IN 

 ENGLISH AND THEN IN GERMAN, AS FOLLOWS: 



His Magnificence and the Senate of the University of Halle, 

 in which the agricultural science holds an eminent place and to 

 which Julius Kuhn has devoted all his life and blessed work, 

 has charged me to give Michigan Agricultural College his con- 

 gratulations and those of the university on this festival day. 



Michigan Agricultural College applied itself to experimental 

 science at a time when on this ground even hi Europe the very 

 first timid attempts were made in a rather limited way, and by 

 this means it has become as important and typical for the 

 development of agricultural teaching as Halle for Germany. 



Its first president, Hon. Jos. R. Williams, maintained in his 

 opening address that all disciplines being connected with 

 agricultural science in any way or having any importance to it, 

 ought to be cultivated. 



Michigan Agricultural College can boast of having had a 

 great number of learned men well known in the world of science. 

 In all the branches of agricultural and natural science, especially 

 in attacking stock murrains, noxiousnesses in the vegetable 

 kingdom, as to dairy, entomology, bacteriology, cultivation of 

 corn, and horticulture the teachers of Michigan Agricultural 

 College have been particularly successful from the beginning up 

 to our date. By establishing substations, the College has done 

 an elaborate work in transferring scientific results into practice, 

 and has highly contributed to the splendid agriculture of Michi- 

 gan State. 



The University of Halle, the representative of which I have 

 the honor to be, wishes that the Michigan Agricultural College 

 may continue in this brilliant manner developing the agricul- 

 tural science. 



It gives me pleasure to present to you this tabula congratu- 

 latonia 1 and my best wishes. 

 * See p. 298. 



