laid out, already contain a valuable collection of trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants, selected especially for the illustration of the study of Botany. This collection will receive addition annually, and it is intended that the grounds shall ultimately contain specimens of every plant which will endure the climate.

The Cooley Herbarium.-This Herbarium, collected by the late D. Cooley, M. D, and the munificent gift of his widow, Mrs Babbitt, is one of the largest in the West. It contains about 20,000 specimens, from all parts of the world. It is especially rich in the rare American plants. It is believed that in the Grasses, the family so important to the agriculturist, it is not exceeded by any collection in the country.

Laboratory-The professional character of the College demanded that extensive provision be made for instruction in Chemistry, and researches in the Chemical principles of Agriculture.

A very full set of apparatus has therefore been procured, affording all the aid required in Elementary, Analytical and Agricultural Chemistry.

In the study of Elementary Chemistry the facts and principles of the science are fully illustrated by experiments.

In prosecuting Chemical Analysis the student spends three hours a day in the Laboratory, applying with his own hands the tests required to determine the composition and properties of bodies, thus securing a practical knowledge of the methods employed in these investigations.

The instruction in the application of Chemistry to Agriculture is illustrated in the Laboratory as well as on the farm, so far as the nature of the subject will permit.

Philosophical and Mathematical Apparatus-The College possesses a set of apparatus for illustrating the principles of Mechanics, Heat, Electricity, Galvanism, &c.; also a Leveling Instrument, Surveyor's Compass, Chain, and other instruments for Mensuration, Topographical Surveying and Drawing.

Museum.-The Museum contains a valuable collection of the mammals, birds, reptiles, fishes, mollusks, insects and crustaceans

of Michigan, together with numerous specimens of foreign species, serving to illustrate very fully each branch of the animal kingdom.

A suit of anatomical preparations for the purpose of illustrating the comparative structure of domestic animals has been secured, to which additions will be made, so as fully to elucidate this department of study, and lay the foundation for the successful prosecution of the study of veterinary medicine.

The Cabinet of Minerals, though not large, contains many rare specimens, and is sufficient for the purposes of illustration. Frequent additions are made to it, and it will doubtless become one of the most valuable in the State.

The College is entitled to a complete suite of specimens from the geological survey of the State:

Library and Reading Room.-The Library contains about twelve hundred volumes, and provision has been made for its yearly increase. The College receives regularly a large proportion of the Agricultural and Horticultural papers and periodicals, as well as many of the other daily and weekly papers of the country. The Library and Reading Room are open to students daily.

Literary Society.-The students have organized a Literary Society in the Institution. The exercises consist principally of discussions, essays and lectures.

TERMS AND VACATIONS.

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The College term opens on the last Wednesday of February, and continues until the last Wednesday of November, of each year. The examinations and other exercises of the Colleg so arranged as to allow students, who desire to teach for four months during the winter, the privilege of being abs nt the first and last two weeks of the term. Students who teach only three months will not be allowed to be absent during the progress of the term.

Commencement.-Commencement exercises of the graduating class take place on Wednesday, two weeks previous to the last Wednesday of November, in each year.

Examinations.-There is a public examination of all the

classes every half year.

DEGREES.

The degree of Bachelor of Science is conferred upon students who complete the full College course and sustain all the half yearly examinations in the same.

The degree of Master of Science is conferred upon graduates of three years standing, who give evidence of having been engaged during that period in scientific studies.

DISCIPLINE,

Students are required to board in the College Boarding Hall, and to observe strictly all the rules and regulations in force in the same.

They are not allowed to absent themselves from the College grounds without permission.

They are expected to abstain from all immoral practices, and from everything which is inconsistent with their relations to the Institution.

Strict decorum, earnest fidelity in their studies, prompt attendance upon all chapel exercises, recitations, lectures and field operations are uniformly required. None are excused from the daily manual labor, nor from other duties, except from physical disability.

Students who fail in punctual attendance upon these exercises, and those whose influence upon others is considered deleterious, will be reprimanded, suspended or expelled, at the discretion of the Faculty.

ATTENDANCE.

Students are required to be present on the first day of the term, unless excused to be absent on account of sickness, or for actual service as teachers. They are also expected to remain during the entire College year, and none are excused from attendance except from urgent necessity.

Students who wish to terminate their connection with the

College, or who desire leave of absence for a definite period of time, will receive such dismissal or leave of absence if application be made for the same before the opening of the College year. The closing of the term does not close their relations with the Institution. If, however, such application be made during the progress of the term, it will be granted only for good and sufficient reasons.

ROUTINE OF DUTIES.

The time of the students is divided between labor, study and recitations. They are arranged in two work divisions, one section laboring in the forenoon, the other in the afternoon. If then they are not laboring on the farm or in the garden, in conformity with the regulations of the College, they are employed either at their studies, or in recitation.

Public Worship.-Students are required to attend prayers in the College Chapel every morning; also public worship on the Sabbath at the same place.

A Bible Class, which all students are invited to join, is organized each season under the instruction of some member of the Faculty.

EXPENSES.

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Tuition is free to all students from this State. other States are charged twenty dollars a year for tuition. Board and washing at cost. Two dollars and one quarter per week has been charged the past season. The Board of Agriculture have taken means to reduce, if possible, this expense.

Room-rent for each student, four dollars a year, paid quarterly in advance. Rooms are furnished with bedsteads and stoves; students furnish everything else. Mattresses and pillows may be rented of the College.

A matriculation fee of five dollars entitles the student to the privileges of the whole course. This fee is invariably appropriated to the increase of the Library.

At the opening of the term each student is required to pay to the Secretary ten dollars, as an advance on board, which is

allowed in the settlement of accounts at the end of the term. All bills must be promptly settled when due.

Settlement for board and washing must be made quarterly. All settlements, in whole or in part, must be made with the Secretary of the College. Books will cost on an average ten dollars per year. In the Preparatory and Freshman classes they will cost less; in the other classes, somewhat more.

The cost of furniture for rooms will vary with the taste of the students occupying them. Rooms can be comfortably furnished at a cost not exceeding four or five dollars for each student.

MEANS OF DEFRAYING EXPENSES.

Students receive adequate remuneration for the labor they perform, the amount paid depending upon their ability and fidelity. The highest rates of wages range from seven or eight cents per hour. The lowest rates may not exceed three or four cents, if the student fails to render more valuable services. The wages for labor are applied on their board, in the quarterly settlements of accounts.

The winter months are devoted to vacation, affording the student an opportunity for teaching. His earnings through the winter, when added to the wages received during the term, if he is industrious and economical, will enable him to defray all his College expenses. "Can a young man support himself at the Institution?" is a question often asked. He can support himself in the manner pointed out above, provided he can command means sufficient to meet his bills the first year.

Some of the graduates of the College have paid their entire expenses, including clothing and traveling fees, during the whole course, by their own labor; and a number of students at present in attendance, are doing the same.

Abstract of the Ledger account of a student in actual attendance at the Agricultural College for the first three-quarters of the year 1863: