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Agricultural Department.

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

JOHN W. MALLET, 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. & 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.

MILLER AGRICULTURAL SCHOLARSHIPS.

With a portion of the means supplied by the donation of Mr. Miller
there have been 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, as may be required of them. It
is hoped that thus the opportunity may be afforded the successful
competitors of becoming thoroughly competent in their chosen direction
of study, 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 connection with agricultural experiments, the
examination and analysis of agricultural and other materials of general
interest. They will be subject to no charge for tuition in the schools
of the department during the two years, but will be expected to defray
the expense of material they may consume in the chemical laboratory.