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First Year. First Term,—Chemical Physics and Inorganic Chemistry, Structural and Physiological Botany. First five books of Davies' Legendre.

Second Term.—Organic Chemistry. How Crops Grow. English Language.

Third Term. Qualitative Analysis. Detection of the alkalies, alkaline-earths, earths, etc. Systematic Botany; Excursions and Collections. English Language.

Second Year. First Term.—Qualitative Analysis continued. Detection and Separation of the Elements. Chain Surveying and Mensuration. Geometrical Drawing. General Principles of Zoology, (or German).

Second Term. General Principles of Geology. Vegetable Economy; How Plants Feed. Topographical Drawing. Animal Physiology, (or German).

Third Term. Geology of Oregon. Vegetable Economy. Entomology, (or German).

B. J. HAWTHORNE

The foregoing was the first course in agriculture offered on the Pacific coast. Professor B. J. Hawthorne was appointed professor of agriculture and languages, a position which he filled eleven years without assistance. During this period the classes in agriculture collected and mounted about 1200 botanical specimens and made numerous experiments which stimulated the belief that the science of agriculture is based upon certain principles and unfailing laws which can be successfully taught in a college and thereby exalted in national estimation. Later the State of Oregon began to regard with increasing favor the scientific study of agriculture in schools and generously supplemented the federal