dents desiring to pursue the study of Latin, or of other languages, can easily make arrangements for doing so, if their time permits. The course also provides systematic instruction in the physical geography of the globe; in the special physical and historical geography of Europe and the United States; in the outlines of modern history, and in political economy. The students in this course receive from the various professors instruction in agricultural chemistry, botany, zoology, geology, and mineralogy. They attend the lectures on agriculture, rural economy, stock-breeding, &c., and those on general and theoretical chemistry. Their mathematical studies are continued in astronomy. They are expected to keep up the practice of drawing, especially of freehand drawing. So far as it does not interfere with appointments in the school, students in this course are permitted to attend the lectures of the academical depart

ment.

For the benefit of those who desire to pursue some particular studies, without reference to a college degree, most of the various instructors are willing to receive special students for a longer or shorter time. Only persons of mature minds are received. For example, in agriculture the instruction is so arranged that by attendance during the ensuing autumn term the scholar may hear the various lectures, and receive as much technical instruction in this one branch as by remaining through the winter. In the chemical laboratory, students properly qualified are received for short periods of work. In the various departments of natural history special lessons will also be given. Instruction may also be received in practical astronomy and the use of instruments. These opportunities are not offered to persons who are incompetent to go on with regular courses, but are designed to aid those who have been educated elsewhere to increase their proficiency in special branches.

Building and apparatus.-Sheffield Hall, bearing the name of the donor, Mr. Joseph E. Sheffield, of New Haven, is a large and well-arranged building, containing recitation and lecture rooms for all the classes, a hall for public assemblies and lectures, laboratories for chemical and metallurgical investigations, a photographical room, an astronomical observatory, museums, a library and reading-room, besides studies for some of the professors, where their private technical libraries are kept.

The following is a summary statement of the collections belonging to the school: 1. Laboratories and apparatus in chemistry, metallurgy, mechanics, photography, and zoology.

2. Metallurgical museum of ores, furnace-products, &c.

3. Agricultural museum of soils, fertilizers, useful and injurious insects, &c.

4. Collections in zoology.

5. Astronomical observatory, with an equatorial telescope by Clark and Son of Cambridge, a meridian circle, &c.

6. Library and reading-room, containing the Hillhouse Mathematical Library, books of reference, and a selection of German, French, English, and American scientific journals.

7. A collection of physical apparatus, constituting the Collier cabinet, recently bought by Professor Lyman.

8. Models in architecture, civil engineering, and mechanics, and diagrams adapted to public lectures.

9. Maps and charts, topographical, hydrographical, geological, &c.

The mineralogical cabinet of Professor Brush, the herbarium of Professor Brewer, the collection of native birds of Professor Whitney, and the astronomical instruments of Professor Lyman, are all deposited in the building. Professor Eaton's herbarium, near at hand, is freely accessible.

Students in this department are also admitted to the college and society libraries, the college reading-room, the cabinet of minerals and fossils, the school of the fine arts, and the gymnasium for physical exercise.

The instructions of this institution are given chiefly in small class-rooms, by recitations or familiar lectures, illustrated by all the apparatus at the command of the various teachers, A public course of lectures is given every winter on topics of popular interest. On Sunday evenings during a portion of the year lectures are given by resident clergymen of different denominations, and by members of the theological and other college faculties.

Tuition charges.-The tuition charge is $150 per year. Besides this there is a charge of $5 annually for the use of the academical reading-room and gymnasium. Freshmen pay $5 for chemicals; and the special students in the chemical laboratory are likewise charged $25 per term for the materials they use-besides breakage. The graduation fee is $10.

Vacations correspond with those of the academical department.

THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, HOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY. Officers of instruction.-Henry Morton, Ph. D., President; Alfred H. Mayer, Ph. D., Professor of Physics; Robert H. Thurston, C. E., Professor of Mechanical Engineering;

Lieutenant-Colonel H. A. Hascall, Professor of Mathematics; C. W. MacCord, A. M., Professor of Mechanical Drawing; Albert R. Leeds, A. M., Professor of Chemistry; Charles F. Kroeh, A. M., Professor of Languages; Rev. Edward Wall, A. M., Professor of Belles-Lettres.

Summary of students.-First class, 16; second class, 3; third class, 2; total, 21. Foundation.-This institution was founded in accordance with the will of Mr. Edwin A. Stevens, of Hoboken, who bequeathed for the purpose a large block of land in that city, and a sum amounting, at the discretion of the trustees, to $650,000.

Plan and buildings.-The Stevens Institute is especially a school of mechanical engineering; but the fact that chemistry, metallurgy, and mineralogy, as well as the whole science of machinery, so important to mining engineers of the present day, are taught here, and the magnificent completeness of the buildings and apparatus of instruction, justify me in including it in the present chapter. My principal object is to present a description of the building, which will be highly interesting and useful to those who have to deal with the arrangement of such institutions. The following description and plates are extracted from the New York Enginering and Mining Journal of April 16, 1872, and have been inserted at this place since this report was transmitted to Congress.

The building is situated in the pleasantest portion of the city, its windows commanding a beautiful view of the surrounding country, as well as of our harbor and bay, and the edifice itself presenting a fine appearance when viewed from the deck of the ferryboat as we cross the river to visit it. (Plate I.)

The building is very substantially built of blue trap-rock, with brown-stone trimmings, from designs by Upjohn. It extends from street to street, and has two wings in the rear. It is three stories in height, and has a dry and roomy basement. (Plate II.)

In the basement is a work-shop, occupying the whole of the right-hand wing, and containing tools for working in both wood and metal, together with the steam engine which is to drive them.

Here, also, are gas-holders for oxygen and hydrogen, and from them pipes are led to the several lecture-rooms, where the lecturers may have occasion to use the lime-light or the oxyhydrogen blow-pipe.

At the opposite end of the basement are the boilers for heating the building, and for supplying steam to the engines, and at this end are the furnaces for metallurgical work, and under the wing are the assay-room and the rooms of the janitor.

On the first floor, (Plate IV,) we find at the right a splendidly lighted, high and airy hall, fitted up as a physical laboratory, and stocked with numerous ingenious and delicate forms of apparatus, such as were made use of by Faraday in his splendid researches in electricity, by Regnault, and by Tyndal, and by Melloni in their investigations of the nature and laws of heat, and by other physicists in other almost equally classical labors.

In the large room at the rear of the main building, which is the public lecture-hall of the Institute, we find seats for six hundred persons. The stage is fitted with all needed appurtenances. A trap-door being raised, pipes are discovered bringing water and gas from the street-mains, oxygen and hydrogen from the tanks in the basement, and steam from the main boilers. Heavy copper wires connect with the large electric battery, and these, as well as the oxygen and hydrogen pipes, are also led under the floor to the different points in the room, (marked O H in the plate,) where they may be required for the magic lantern, or for other purposes.

The large room at the extreme left, No. 3, in the main building, is the library and model-room. It is of the same size as the physical laboratory, and is also a beautifullyproportioned and well-lighted room. Here are kept the books which form the germ of what is intended to be a fine technical library, and the models and apparatus which are not needed in the lecture-rooms in illustration of the regular courses of instruction. This is also the reading-room, and the tables are furnished with a well-selected list of periodicals, some of which are contributed by the publishers. The room in the wing at the left is the chemical laboratory, which, although not lofty, is well ventilated, and well fitted up with the best of modern apparatus. The balance-room is immediately adjacent, and contains some fine apparatus.

The second floor (Plate V) is occupied by the several lecture-rooms. At the right is the lecture-room used by the president when it becomes necessary for him to take part in instructing advanced classes, and at other times in special researches.

The little room off the stair-landing is also used by the president, as a work-room. The lecture-room of the professor of physics is next to the preceding a pleasant, well-arranged room, fitted up with every imaginable convenience, including all that were noticed in the larger lecture-hall, and also a pneumatic trough, and a set of Bunsen air-pumps.

Immediately over the main entrance is a room containing the principal part of the optical collection of the Institute, which is said to be the finest in the world, and con

PLATE II.

C'. Crucible Furnace

E. Entrances.

JANITOR'S

E'. Engine, Steam, 25 Horse Power.

S. Sinks.

F. Forge.

ROOM.

ASSAY

H. Hydrogen Reservoir.

ROOM

L. Lift.

VOV

W. Wash Rooms.

W'. Work Benches for Carpentry.