and a corresponding assortment of studies. The high schools and other "fitting schools" of the State are thus invited to extend their work substantially up to the junior year. When at length this shall have been generally done, the University will as provided by law, dispense with the whole of the Department of Elementary Instruction, and will extend her work on postgraduate ground. Among the advantages claimed for this general plan may be named the following:

1. A faithful adherence to the letter and spirit of the laws, state and national, which have established and endowed the University, and which contemplate it as a federation of literary, professional and industrial colleges, having each its own organization, faculty, buildings and equipment.

2. That, while offering the old college curriculum and discipline in their best forms to the literary and professional classes, the University will provide for the industrial classes that "liberal and practical education" required by law and public sentiment.

3. The separation of the natural epochs of secondary and superior education, and the ultimate liberation of the University from the elementary work of the former; and coinciding with this division, an advantageous assortment of studies, methods and discipline suitable to the two periods respectively.

4. A close and vital articulation of the University with the public school system of the State; and the elevation of the high schools by enlarging the recognized sphere of their instruction.

5. The elevation of the professional schools by requiring of candidates for degrees a good general education as a prerequisite for admission, while not insisting upon the impossible condition that all shall have gone over the whole of the old college course.

6. The elevation in particular of the Colleges of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts to equal rank and standing with other university colleges, and the separation of the studies and exercises properly belonging to them, from the elementary branches taught in primary and secondary schools; which branches it is not the business of COLLEGES to teach.

To put the above plan of organization into affect, the Board of Regents have from time to time enacted such by-laws as seemed to be necessary. See Calenders for 1874-5 and 1876-7, Appendix.

EQUIPMENT.

CAMPUS.

The University is situated in the city of Minneapolis, on the east side of the Mississippi river, about one mile below the Falls of St. Anthony, on an elevated bluff in full view of the same. The grounds are now about forty-five acres in extent, undulating in surface and well wooded with native trees. The plans for the embellishment of the grounds, made by Mr. H. W. S. Cleveland, of Chicago, will be carried out as fast as means can be afforded. Meantime such are the natural advantages of situation and contour, the grounds are very attractive.

The experimental farm of the Agricultural College is situated on Como avenue.

BUILDINGS.

The general plan of the buildings contemplates a central academic building, and grouped around it, additional structures for the separate departments or colleges.

The Legislature of 1881 appropriated the sum of $30,000 a year for six years for the erection and outfit of the following additional buildings: A farmhouse, a building for the College of Mechanic Arts, a military building, an astronomical observatory, a museum and a library.

The destruction of the State Capitol by fire, in addition to other considerations has constrained the Board of Regents not to press upon the treasury for the immediate payment of these appropriations. It is expected that in the course of the summer of 1883 two or more buildings will be put in construction.

This building is 186 feet in length and 90 in breadth, exclusive of porches, having three stories above the basement. The walls are of blue limestone and the roof of tin. The rooms, fifty-three in number, as well as all the corridors, are heated by an efficient steam apparatus, and are thoroughly ventilated. Water is supplied from the city mains, and there is a standpipe running from the basement through the roof, with hose attached on all the floors, for protection against fire. The assembly hall, in the third story, 87x55 feet and 24 feet high, will seat with comfort 700 people, and 1,200 can be accommodated.

THE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.

This is the first of the special buildings for the separate colleges. It is of brick on a basement of blue stone, 146x54 feet. The central portion is two stories in height. The south wing, 55x25 feet, is a plant house of double sash and glass. The north wing contains the chemical laboratory. There are class rooms for chemistry, and agriculture, and

private laboratories for the professors. A large room in the second story is occupied by the museums of technology and agriculture. For a view of this building see College of Agriculture, infru.

LABORATORIES.

THE CHEMICAL LABORATORY occupies five rooms in the north wing of the Agricultural College. (1) The main students' laboratory, 22x45 feet. This contains eight tables, accommodating sixty-four workers, in two sections or reliefs. Each table has water, gas, sink, shelving for reagents, drawers and cupboards for apparatus-all of the most approved construction. (2) The quantative laboratory adjoining, 22x30 feet. (3) The apparatus room, provided with cases for storing apparatus, and tables for the balances. (4) The professor's private laboratory. (5) A room in the basement fitted up for assay and furnace work. All the rooms except the last are on one floor, are well lighted and ventilated, and communicate with each other in a convenient manner. The University is able to offer ample facilities for successful study and instruction in both general and analytical chemistry, and in the allied branches of study. Persons desiring chemical analyses should address the Professor of chemistry. THE PHYSICAL LABORATORY.-The rooms devoted to the department of Physics are so arranged and furnished that students desiring to make a specialty of physics can have an opportunity to use the apparatus, and perform their own experiments. In addition, a small room has been set apart for a lathe.

THE MINERALOGICAL LABORATORY.-' -This room is furnished with three double tables, accommodating eighteen students. Each table is provided with all the apparatus and reagents necessary for a complete series of blow-pipe tests and for all the qualitative chemical work done in the determination of rocks and minerals.

Until the needs of the students of Biology for workrooms of their own have been met, the anatomical and botanical work pertaining to the instruction in Zoology and Botany will be done in this same room. Since the laboratory work in their respective studies comes in different terms this arrangement can be carried out for the present without inconvenience.

MUSEUMS.

THE GENERAL MUSEUM comprises the collections of the Geological and Natural History Survey of the State, augmented by purchases and donations. The specimens are contained, so far as they are ready for

exhibition, in rooms 51 and 52 of the main University building. In the south room, No. 52, are the geological and mineralogical specimens, in cases suitably arranged about the room; the suite of typical Minnesota rocks and minerals being in the large case in the centre of the room. Upwards of 4,700 entries and 12,000 specimens, including duplicates, indicate the volume of this department of the Museum, embracing species not only from the State of Minnesota, but from all parts of the world. Among these is a complete series of the zinc and iron minerals, and their associates, from Franklin, Ogdensburg, and Bergen Hill, N. J., and a collection of sixty-four metoric stones and irons from different parts of the world.

In the north room, No. 51, are upright cases filled with zoological specimens. These embrace specimens of some of the larger mammals and fur animals of the Northwest, birds, marine invertebrates, alcoholic preparations, and a set of Prof. Ward's casts of fossils, including the Megatherium Cuvieri, On.

Sets of the collections of the United States Fish Commission, from the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, have also been presented by the Smithsonian Institution.

The Museum is rapidly growing in value by the accumulations of the geological survey of the State, and is constantly used for the illustration of scientific instruction. The rooms are open daily during the University year for the convenience and use of students and visitors. Contributions and correspondence should be addressed to the Curator, Prof. N. H. Winchell.

THE MUSEUM OF AGRICULTURE is designed to assist in illustrating the instruction in agriculture and horticulture. It comprises models of agricultural implements, seeds of grasses, grains and noxious weeds, in jars; grasses and grains in the straw; drawings and lithographs of machines and animals; fruits preserved in alcohol; fertilizers, and other articles of interest to the farmer. Already considerable progress has been made in collecting and arranging. Contributions are respectfully requested, and should be addressed to Prof. Edward A. Porter.

THE PLANT HOUSE is similar in purpose to the Museum of Agriculture. It is designed to furnish (1) means of illustrating the subject of botany, viz: specimens for analysis before the class, and living plants of botanic or economic interest, that cannot be grown in the open air in Minnesota; (2) means for illustrating the subject of horticulture, viz: the propaga