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AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT.
JOHN R. PAGE, M. D.,
Professor of Zoology, Agricultural Botany and Agriculture.
JOHN W. MALLET, Ph. D., M. D., LL. D.,
Professor of General and Applied Chemistry.
FRANCIS 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
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.
J. F. SLAUGHTER, President.
W. W. MINOR,
S. W. FICKLIN,
GEO. W. PALMER,
S. V. SOUTHALL,
H. W. JONES,
R. T. W. DUKE, Secretary.
B. JOHNSON BARBOUR.
Trustees of Miller Fund.
SCHEME OF INTERMEDIATE EXAMINATIONS IN THE ACADEMIC
SCHOOLS FOR 1881.
Monday, January 17—Senior and Junior
Greek.
Wednesday, January 19—Literature.
Friday, January 21—Junior Latin.
Monday, January 24—Junior Natural Philosophy.
Wednesday, January 26—Int. Greek.
Friday, January 28—Int. Mathematics.
Monday, January 31—History.
Wednesday, February 2—Senior Natural
Philosophy.
Saturday, Feb'y 5—Industrial Chemistry.
Monday, February 7—Senior Latin.
Wednesday, February 9—Geology.
Thursday, February 10—French.
Monday, February 14—Senior and Junior
Mathematics.
Wednesday, February 16—General Chemistry.
Thursday, February 17—Mineralogy.
Saturday, February 19—Moral Philosophy.
Monday, February 21—German.
SCHEME OF FINAL EXAMIMATIONS IN THE ACADEMIC SCHOOLS
FOR 1881.
Monday, May 30—Latin I.
Wednesday, June 1—Senior Natural Philosophy.
Thursday, June 2—History.
Saturday, June 4—German.
Monday, June 6—Greek I.
Tuesday, June 7—Industrial Chemistry.
Wednesday, June 8—Latin II.
Thursday, June 9—Botany and Anglo-Saxon.
Saturday, June 11—Literature.
Monday, June 13—Senior Mathematics.
Wednesday, June 15—General Chemistry.
Friday, June 17—Greek II. and Jr. Greek.
Saturday, June 18—French.
Monday, June 20—Moral Philosophy.
Tuesday, June 21—Int. Greek and Geology.
Wednesday, June 22—Junior Natural Philosophy.
Thursday, June 23—Junior Latin.
Saturday, June 25—Junior and Int. Mathematics.
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