THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE 515 
facade as fine as can be devised, with a | Yale may make necessary their exten- 
great cheater and other public halls. | sion over an ever-wider territory, but 
Back of this but part of it would be | it seems a pity that when universities 
the real university buildings, capable must erect their buildings from the 
of enlargement to the side and up and | start, as has been necessary for Co- 
down. The lecture rooms and labora- | lumbia and Chicago, there is not at 
tories would be on the unit plan so | hand sufficient artistic and educational 
that partitions could be readily taken | imagination to plan a building that is 
out or put in. The library would be | beautiful pecause it best serves the 
in the center, with its seminar rooms | purposes of a university. 
extending towards the different depart- 
ments. Catacombs could be dug as AGRICULTURAL GRAPHIOS 
more room was needed for the storage 
of books, and stories could be added as| THE Department of Agriculture has 
the library and the university became | issued a bulletin, compiled by Mr. Mid- 
larger. dleton Smith, of the Bureau: of Statis- 
The Harper Memorial Library, as | tics, which contains eighty-eight maps 
shown in the illustrations, does to a showing graphically the production of 
certain extent follow this plan. It is crops and farm animais by the states 
to be surrounded by the halls for lan- and by the principal countries of the 
guages, philosophy and history. But world. Several of these charts are 
the sciences with their department | here reproduced. The appeal made to 
libraries are separated, and the whole the eye by graphic representation adds 
university is scattered over a large to the vividness and permanence of the 
area. Students must find hats and impression, and such charts have con- 
coats and travel from building to siderable interest and educational 
building to attend a lecture or to con- value. 
sult a book. The historic conditions | The agricultural products of this 
of universities such as Harvard and country are indeed so large that as- 

AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER FROM MR. ALEXANDER AGASSIZ. 
