 | A catalogue of the officers and students of the University of Virginia |  |
AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT.
JOHN R. PAGE, M. D.,
Professor of Zoology, Botany and Agriculture.
FRANCIS H. SMITH, M. A.,
Professor of Natural Philosophy.
JOHN W. MALLET, Ph. D., M. D., LL. D., F. R. S.,
Professor of General and Applied Chemistry.
WM. M. FONTAINE, M. A.,
Professor of Natural History and Geology.
FRANCIS P. DUNNINGTON, B. Sc.,
Adjunct Professor of Analytical and Agricultural Chemistry.
WILLIAM M. THORNTON,
Adjunct Professor of Mathematics Applied to 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
principles upon which Agriculture is based, will probably do well to select
for the first year Natural Philosophy, (Junior Class,) Chemistry (general),
Zoology, Agricultural Botany and Agriculture, 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.
The degree of Bachelor of Scientific Agriculture is conferred in this
department. (See Degrees.)
| J. F. SLAUGHTER, President. | |
| W. W. MINOR, | S. V. SOUTHALL, |
| S. W. FICKLIN, | H. W. JONES, |
| GEO. W. PALMER, | B. JOHNSON BARBOUR. |
| R. T. W. DUKE, Secretary. | |
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