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AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT.

           

A. H. TUTTLE, M. S.	Professor of Biology and Agriculture.
FRANCIS H. SMITH, M. A., LL. D.	Professor of Natural Philosophy.
JOHN W. MALLET, M. D., Ph. D., F. R. S.	Professor of Chemistry.
F. P. DUNNINGTON, B. S.	Professor of Analytial and Agricultural Chemistry.
WM. M. FONTAINE, M. A.	Professor of Natural History and Geology.
WM. M. THORNTON	Professor of Mathematics Applied to Engineering.

TRUSTEES OF THE MILLER FUND.

         

J. F. SLAUGHTER, President.
JOHN M. WHITE,	S. V. SOUTHALL,
RANDOLPH HARRISON,	H. W. JONES,
GEORGE W. PALMER,	B. JOHNSON BARBOUR
R. T. W. DUKE, Secretary.

This Department is founded on the gift of one hundred thousand dollars
by the late Samuel Miller, of Lynchburg, Va., for the establishment of a
Department of Agriculture in the University of Virginia.

The Course of Instruction is arranged as follows:

I. General Biology (page 38); Physics (page 33); Chemistry (page 34);
Geology and Mineralogy (page 37).

II. Industrial Chemistry (page 35); Practical Biology (page 38); Applied
Mathematics (page 51).

III. Analytical and Agricultural Chemistry (page 35); Agriculture (page
39); Applied Mathematics (page 51).

The Method of Instruction is by systematic lectures, daily oral and
periodical written examinations. With this is combined the study of suitable
text-books, and in the laboratory courses a large amount of practical
work performed under the supervision of the Professor.

The Miller Scholarship is awarded at the end of each session in honor
of the founder of the Agricultural Department. The emoluments consist of
$250 a session, with free tuition in the Schools of the Agricultural Department.

The degree of Bachelor of Scientific Agriculture is conferred on one
who has passed examination in all of the above subjects. The course is
designed to cover a period of three sessions.

The necessary Expenses of a student in the Department of Agriculture,
with board at the lowest rate ($13), will be about $290 a session, exclusive
of books, stationery and laboratory materials. Virginians save $50 to $100
in tuition.