Albemarle County (Virginia.) A hand book giving a description of its topography, climate, geology, minerals, fruits, plants, history, educational, agricultural and manufacturing advantages, and inducements the county offers the industrious and intelligent farmer and manufacturer |
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FACILITIES FOR INSTRUCTION.
In nothing has the University changed so greatly since its
foundation as in the facilities which it offers for instruction.
Literary, three Scientific, one of Medicine and one of Law;
each in charge of a distinct School. At present there are four
distinct departments.
I. Literary Department with six professors and two
instructors.
II. Scientific and Engineering Department with eight
professors and two instructors.
III. Medical Department with four professors and one
instructor.
IV. Law Department with two professors.
The Library consisted originally of 2,436 admirably selected
volumes; to-day it possesses about 50,000.
The Observatory was never completed and soon fell into
ruins. To-day Mount Jefferson is crowned by an observatory
building unrivalled for excellence of constructive details, and
containing a telescope which surpasses in power and perfection
that attached to any University in the world. The Lick Observatory
has a merely nominal connection with the University
of California.
There was no Laboratory of any sort in the University for
the training of students. To-day the Chemical Laboratory,
the Physical Laboratory and the Biological Laboratory are
each filled with appliances for illustration and for study and
scientific research.
The only Museum was a collection of curiosities. To-day
the Museum of Industrial Chemistry exemplifies all the principal
applications of Chemistry to the Arts, and the Museum
of Natural History illustrates all branches of that subject.
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