zur Beförderung der Landwirthschaft und der Gewerbe für die Hohenzollernschen Lande.

Sondershausen, Schwarzburg-Sondershausen.-Verein zur Beförderung der Landwirthschaft.

Stettin, Prussia.-Entomologischer Verein.

Stuttgart, Würtemberg.-Gartenbau-Gesellschaft "Flora" Gesellschaft für die Weinverbesserung in Würtemberg; K. Centralstelle für Gewerbe und Handel; K. Centralstelle tür die Landwirthschaft; K. Oeffentliche Bibliothek; K.Statistisch-topographisches Bureau; Rédaction des "Thiergarten," (Dr. B. F. Weinland.)

Tharand, Saxony.-Königlich Sächs. Akademie für Forst und Landwirthe.

Trieste, Austria.-Gartenbau-Gesellschaft des Litorale.
Tübingen, Würtemberg.-Landwirthschaftlicher Verein.

Vienna, Austria.-Comité der Allgemeinen Versammlung von Berg und Hüttenmännern; Entomologischer Verein; K. K. Central-Anstalt für Meteorologie und Erd-Magnetism; K. K. Direction des Administrativen Statistik; K. K. Gartenbau-Gesellschaft; K. K. Geologische Reichsanstalt; K. K. Landwirthschafts-Gesellschaft; K. K. Statis tische-Central-Commission.

Weimar Saxe- Weimar.-Verein für Blumistik und Gartenbau. Wiesbaden, Nassau.-Verein für Naturkunde; Verein Nassauischer Land- und Forstwirthe.

Würzburg, Bavaria.-Physikalisch-Medicinische Gesellschaft.

GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.

Bath.-Bath and West of England Agricultural Society.
Belfast.-Chemico-Agricultural Society of Ulster.

Cork.-Cuvierian Society.

Cirencester.-Royal Agricultural College.

Dublin.-Chemical Society of Dublin; Natural History Society of Dublin; Royal Geological Society of Ireland.

Edinburgh.-botanical Society; Caledonian Horticultural Society; Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland.

Keighley.-Keighley Agricultural Society.
Kew.-Library of Kew Garden.

London.-William Wesley, (agent Smithsonian Institution;) Acclimatization Society; Annals and Magazine of Natural History; British Association for the Advancement of Science; Chemical Society of London; Entomological Society; Geological Society of London; Linnæan Society; Museum of Practical Geology; Royal Agricultural Society of England; Royal Botanic Society; Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons; Royal Geographical Society of London; Royal Horticultural Society of London.

York.-Yorkshire Agricultural Society.

Athens.-Observatory.

GREECE.

HOLLAND.

Amsterdam.-Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, (Royal Academy of Sciences;) Koninklijk Zoologisch Genootschap "Natura Artis Magistra," (Royal Zoological Society;) Stadsbibliotheek, (City Library;) Vereeniging voor Statistiek in Nederland, (Statistical Association of the Netherlands.)

Arnhem.-Vreind van den Landman.

The Hague.-Bureau de la Statistique; Koninklijke Bibliotheek, (Royal Library.)

Groningen.-Genootschap ter Bevordering der Natuurkundig Wetenschappen, (Society for the Advancement of Natural Sciences.)

Harlem.-Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen, (Society of Sciences of Holland.)

Leyden.-Nederlandsche Entomologische Vereeniging, (Entomological Society of the Netherlands;) Rijk's Museum van Natuurlijke Geschiedenis, (National Museum of Natural History;) Vereeniging voor de Flora van Nederland; University Library.

Rotterdam.-Bataafsch Genootschap der Proefondervindejijke Wilsbegeerte, (Batavian Society of Experimental Philosophy.)

Utrecht.-Koninklijk Nederlandsch Meteorologisch Instituut. Zwolle.-Overysselsche Vereeniging tot Ontwikkeling van Provinciale Welvaart, (Overyssel Society for Promotion of Provincial Welfare ;) Vriend van den Landman.

ITALY.

Bologna.-Società Agraria della Provincia di Bologna.
Florence.-Academia Economico-agraria dei Georgofili.

Milan.-Associazione Agricola Lombarda di Corte del Palasio; Reale Instituto Veterinario.

Naples.-R. Orto Botanico di Napoli.

Palermo.-R. Istituto d'Incorragiamento di Agricoltura, Arti e Manifatture in Sicilia; Società di Acclimazione e di Agricoltura in Sicilia. Pesaro.-Accademia Agraria di Pesaro.

Turin.-Accademia Reale di Agricoltura; Bureau Royale Statistique; Ministero di Agricoltura, Industria e Commercio. Udine.-Associazone Agraria Friulana.

Verona.-Accademia de'Agricoltura, Commercio ed Arti di Verona.

NORWAY.

Christiania.-Physiographiske Forening.

Drontheim.-Kongelige Norske Videnskabernes-Selskab, (Royal North

ern Society of Science.)

POLYNESIA.

Honolulu, Sandwich Islands.-Royal Hawaiian Agricultural Society.

PORTUGAL.

Lisbon.-Academia Real das Sciencias.

RUSSIA.

Dorpat.-Dorpater Naturforscher-Gesellschaft.

Helsingfors.-Magnetisches und Meteorologisches Observatorium; Societas Scientiarum Fennica.

Moscow.-Imper. Obshtshestvo Selskago Khozaistva, (Imperial Ag ricultural Society;) Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou.

Odessa. Glavnoé Outchilitelié Sadovodstva, (Central Horticultural School;) Obshtshestvó Seljskagó Khozjaistva Joujnoi Rossii, (Society of Rural Economy of Southern Russia.)

Riga.-Gesellschaft Praktischer Arzte; Naturforschender Verein; Technischer Verein.

St. Petersburg.-Entomologische Gesellschaft; Kais. Russ. Minera logische Gesellschaft; Statistitsheskii Tsentralnii Komitet, (Central Statistical Committee.)

SCANDINAVIA.

Skandinaviske Naturforskeres Forsamling, (Scandinavian Associa tion of Naturalists.)

SPAIN.

Barcelona.-Real Academia de Buenos Letras de Barcelona. Madrid. Real Academia Española Archeologia y Geografia; Real Academia de la Historia.

SWEDEN.

Lund.-Physiographiske Forening, (Physiographic Association.) Stockholm.-Bureau Central de Statistique de Suède; Bureau de la Recherche Géologique de la Suède; Kongliga Landbruks-Akademien, (Royal Academy of Agriculture;) Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Academien, (Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.)

Upsala.-Kongliga Vetenskaps-Societeten, (Royal Society of Science.)

SWITZERLAND.

Basel.-Naturforschende Gesellschaft.

Bern.-Naturforschende Gesellschaft; Ökonomische Gesellschaft des Kantons Bern.

Chur-Naturforschende Gesellschaft Graubündens.

Geneva.-Institut National Genèvois; Observatoire; Société Genè voise d'Utilité Publique; Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle; Société Ornithologique Suisse.

Neufchatel.-Société des Sciences Naturelles.

Sion.-Société Valaisanne des Sciences Naturelles.

Zürich.-Bureau Central Météorologique Suisse; Naturforschende Gesellschaft.

OUR INDUSTRIAL COLLEGES.

The last Annual Report of this Department contained a brier abstract of all attainable information relative to the Industrial Colleges which had been organized under the act of Congress donating lands for their encouragement and support. In that preliminary history was traced the progress of public sentiment, and of the efforts made in some of the States to promote the interests of those engaged in agriculture, especially of the efforts to awaken a desire for a more intelligent preparation for the vocation of the farmer. It is gratifying to learn that several States, which had hitherto done no more than to accept the grant, have taken preparatory steps, during the past year, toward establishing agricultural colleges, either by making sale of lands alloted to them, or by organizing boards of trustees, and commencing the erection of the necessary buildings. Colleges already organized, and those in which a course of study has been marked out, have manifested a desire to perfect their plans, and to render the institutions more complete and useful. While these institutions are thus giving evidence of progress, there has been exhibited, on the part of the public, a demand for such instruction as they are fitted to impart. Although these colleges are still in their infancy, their courses of study but imperfectly matured, their boards of instruction filled only in part, and in some instances by a temporary provision of teachers, and although they are not yet provided with suitable conveniences for students, still the attendance has been large, and the students have made gratifying progress in the branches to which they have given attention.

It is proposed to give such additional information as this Department has been able to procure; and the subject will be recurred to from year to year, until the colleges are all organized, and a list of the faculty and the course of study in each can be given. This will be done because it is believed that these institutions will become co-laborers with this Department in elevating the vocation of the farmer, and giving him scientific as well as practical instruction in his pursuits.

CONNECTICUT.

The object aimed at in the Sheffield Scientific School, in its "Course of Agriculture," is to prepare the student for the successful management of a farm, by putting him in possession of a knowledge of the most approved methods of culture at present employed, and by explaining the reasons for these methods. This course is adapted to those who are already familiar with the employments of the farm. Lectures are given on the theory and practice of agriculture in all its branches, on chemistry, botany, geology, zoology, and free-hand drawing. Horticulture and forestry receive particular attention. Excursions under the direction of the professors are made useful to the students in the observation of plants and insects useful or injurious to the farmer. The course of agricultural instruction is under the direction of Professors Brewer and Johnson. The governing board of the Sheffield Scientific School consists of President Woolsey, Professors Dana, Norton, Lyman, Silliman,

Whitney, Brush, Gilman, Johnson, Brewer, Eaton, Marsh, and Verrill. They believe it to be more serviceable to the State and the country to maintain a high grade of scholarship, and say: "We cannot expect to equal the special schools of agriculture in the very desirable work of training practical farmers, though we hope, by the prosecution of the science of agriculture, and by the training of scientific professors and agriculturists, to contribute to the progress of agriculture."

ILLINOIS.

The last annual report of the Department of Agriculture contains an account of the liberal provision made for the Industrial University of this State. The legislature, on the 29th of March last, passed an additional act, making provision for the benefit and completion of the institution. Sixty thousand dollars were appropriated for this purpose, as follows: To the agricultural department, for the erection of barns, houses for farm laborers, for fencing and draining, teams, tools, fruit trees and forest trees, and stock of several breeds and varieties, $12,500 annually for two years; to the horticultural department, including buildings and structures, house for the gardener, tool-house, fencing and underdraining, fruit trees, shrubs, and plants, $10,000 per annum for two years; to the chemical department, $5,000; and for other apparatus, and for books, $10,000.

This appropriation indicates the appreciation, by the people of the State, of the importance of the new university, and augurs well for its future prosperity and usefulness.

KANSAS.

Professor John S. Hougham has been called to the chair of agricul tural science in the college at Manhattan. He had previously taught agricultural chemistry in Franklin College, Indiana, for several years. Eighty acres of the farm have been inclosed by a substantial stone fence, and about half the inclosed land was under cultivation during the last summer. An orchard, embracing sixty-three varieties of fruit, has been planted. One-fourth part of the land under cultivation will be planted and tilled under the special direction of Professor Hougham, and it is expected that an illustration will thus be afforded to the students of the best methods of culture in the various departments of farming, gardening, and horticulture. Miniature farming by the students will be encouraged under his direction, each bestowing his particular attention on the portion allotted to him, careful records of which will be preserved. One hundred and sixty-eight students have been in attendance during the year, seventy-one of whom were ladies. The institution has already furnished eighty teachers for the schools of the State.

MAINE.

The farm connected with the College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts is situated in a populous county, and near the geograph ical center of the State. It has a sufficient diversity of soil and aspect to render it suitable for experimental purposes. It is especially suited to fruit-culture and horticulture. The dormitory building has been completed, the rooms of which are large and well ventilated. A chemical laboratory, modeled after that at Brown University, has been erected, and, when completed, will afford superior facilities for instruction in