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Miller Agricultural Scholarships.

With a portion of the means supplied by the donation of the late
Mr. Samuel Miller of Lynchburg, the Board of Visitors of the University
have established in connection with the Agricultural Department
two scholarships, each of five hundred dollars per annum, and
tenable for two years (one to be filled and one vacated in each
year), to be competed for at a special examination upon the whole of
the subjects taught in the department to be held near the close of
each session — candidates for this examination to be already graduates
in the studies of the department. Scholars thus elected will be
expected to continue their studies during the term of their scholarships,
and to render such assistance in the minor duties of instruction,

in the performance of analyses and researches, &c., as may be required
of them. It is hoped that thus the opportunity may be afforded in
this school to such students of becoming thoroughly competent
chemists, worthy of public confidence in regard to all the purposes
which their special knowledge may subserve, and that even during
their tenure of the scholarships in question they may be able to
render useful service in the examination and analysis of agricultural
and other materials of general interest. They will be subject to no
charge for tuition during the two years, but will be expected to defray
the expense of material they may consume in the Laboratory.