106 Technical Education in Agriculture. 
In the University Colleges of England and Wales,' the 
mathematical subjects, including not only mathematics itself, 
but also mechanics, mechanical drawing, and building construc- 
tion, are efficiently provided for. Chemistry and physics were 
amongst the first subjects for the teaching of which provision 
was made when these colleges were established. Botany and 
geology usually have a well assured place in the curriculum, 
and are capable of valuable economic applications. In connec- 
tion with zoology there is room for enlargement. It should 
be made to include the subjects of anatomy and physiology 
as applied to farm animals. It might also be associated 
with a professorship, or lectureship, dealing with comparative 
pathology. Every day we are learning more and more how 
closely the diseases of men and of animals are allied to each 
other, and at the present moment a Royal Commission is 
inquiring into the relations of tuberculosis in animals to human 
health. Survepng and mensuration are subjects capable of 
agricultural application, and are already taught in the colleges ; 
they are necessarily taken as subsidiary branches of engineering, 
or as portions of the mathematical instruction. But certain other 
subjects must find a place, if the colleges are to become efficient 
as centres of agricultural education. Such are agricultural 
chemistiy, book-keeping, commercial knowledge, and statistics, 
or agricultural economics, whilst in some cases forestry should 
be added. These could be dealt with by means of lectureships, 
and then the University College might reasonably be regarded 
as a well-equipped institution for giving instruction in matters 
bearing upon agriculture. 
Is A Farm Indispensable? »• 
The question as to whether a farm is necessary has been anti- 
cipated. An illustration will serve to show why it is not necessary 
to have a farm attached to the College. There is, in London, 
what was long known as the Royal School of Mines. It has 
but recently become merged in an institution called the Royal 
College of Science. It has enjoyed a distinguished career as 
the Royal School of INIines, and has turned out some of the most 
eminent mining engineers and practical geologists in the world. 
There is no mine attached to the school, nor do the students 
' In England and Wales, cxchisive of London, Oxford, and Cambridge, 
there are " Universitj' Colleges " at Aberrstwitli, Bangor, Birniinghani (Mason 
Science College), Bristol, CardifF, Leeds (Yorkshire College), Liverpool, Man- 
chester (Owens College), Newcastle-upon-Tyne (College of Science), and 
Nottingham, 
