University of Virginia Library

AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT.

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

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

FRANK P. DUNNINGTON, B. Sc.
Adjunct Professor of Analytical and Agricultural Chemistry.

WILLIAM M. THORNTON,
Adjunct Professor of Applied Mathematics and Engineering.

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 a study of the
principles upon which Agriculture is based, will probably do well to select
for the first year Natural Philosophy, (Junior 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.

• W. J. ROBERTSON, President.

• J. M. McBRYDE,

• W. W. MINOR,

• S. W. FICKLIN,

• S. V. SOUTHALL,

• J. F. SLAUGHTER,

• H. W. JONES.

• R. T. W. DUKE, Secretary,