University of Virginia Library

Agricultural Department.

JOHN R. PAGE, M. D.,
Professor of Natural History, Experimental and Practical Agriculture.

JOHN W. MALLET, Ph. D., LL. D., M. D.,
Professor of General and Applied Chemistry.

LEOPOLD J. BŒCK, Ph. D.,
Professor of Applied Mathematics and Engineering.

FRANK P. DUNNINGTON, B. Sc., C. AND M. E.,
Adjunct Professor of Analytical and Agricultural Chemistry.

The late Samuel Miller, of Lynchburg, having by deed given in
trust one hundred thousand dollars for the establishment of a Department
of Scientific and Practical Agriculture at the University of
Virginia, the Trustees under this deed met the Rector and Visitors of
the University on the 17th of September, 1869, and arrangements
were made for putting the said department in operation. These
arrangements have, subsequently, by action taken at various times,
been extended and added to, the above-named Professors have been
nominated by the Trustees of the "Miller Fund" and elected by the
Board of Visitors of the University, certain lands belonging to the
University have been set aside and brought into cultivation as an
Experimental Farm, a machine for the manufacture of drain tiles has
been imported from England and put in operation, and implements,
apparatus, models and specimens of various kinds have been collected
as material aids to the course of instruction.

In this, as in all the other departments of the University, entire
freedom of choice is left to the student as to the schools he shall
attend and the order in which he shall attend them, and this choice
will be influenced in individual cases by the nature and extent of previous
preparation as well as by difference of ulterior aim; but a
student of average ability, who has already had a fair general education,
and who comes to the University with the intention of devoting
himself to the study of the principles upon which Agriculture is based,

will probably do well to select for the first year Natural Philosophy
(Jun. Class), Chemistry (general) Natural History and Mineralogy
and Geology; and for the second year Scientific and Practical Agriculture,
Agricultural and Industrial Chemistry (including the first
Laboratory class of Analytical Chemistry) and Agricultural Engineering.
This arrangement of studies may with advantage be expanded
to a course for three years, or may be varied by the selection of other
Schools when deemed desirable. For the method of study in the
respective Schools, reference should be made to the preceding pages
of this catalogue.

Trustees of Miller Fund.

• THOMAS JEFFERSON RANDOLPH, President.

• A. RIVES.

• W, W. MINOR.

• S. T. FICKLIN.

• W. J. ROBERTSON.

• S. V. SOUTHALL.

• J. F. SLAUGHTER.

• R. T. W. DUKE, Secretary.