The Board unanimously expressed their satisfaction with the provision made by the trustees to carry out their contract with the State, and with the success which has attended the work of the Professors in giving instruction in their several branches of liberal and practical education.

The Secretary reported that thirty-six of the forty free scholarships had been used during the year.

The first regular meeting of the Board for the year 1887-88 was held at the College on Friday, December 16th, 1887. The following examinations were attended:

Seniors, in Bridge Building, by Prof. Bowser.

Seniors, in Quantitative Analysis, by Prof. Austen.
Seniors, in Military Instruction, by Lieut. Honeycutt.
Juniors, in Acoustique et Chaleur, by Prof. Van Dyck.
Juniors, in Calculus, by Prof. Bowser.

Juniors, in Quantitative Analysis, by Prof. Austen.
Sophomores, in Railroad Curves, by Prof. Titsworth.
Sophomores, in English Literature, by Prof. Hart.
Freshmen, in Rhetoric, by Prof. Doolittle.

Freshmen, in Geometry, by Lieut. Honeycutt.

Exhibition of Draughting by all Scientific Students, by, Prof. Titsworth.

The members all expressed their hearty approval of the work done, as well as of the progress made by the students. Particular and complimentary mention was made of the drawings, and there was a careful examination of the maps of the College farm and its crops for 1887, which is a part of the Trustees' report to the Governor, and is a specimen of the work done in this line by the students.

The Board voted to make an application to the Legislature for $30,000, to be used in the construction of an Agricultural Hall and Laboratory.

The Secretary presented the following list of students who are holding the State scholarships at the present time:

Cumberland, George A. Mitchell, resident of Cumberland.

Essex,

Gloucester,
Hudson,

Harold D. Force, resident of Essex.
Albert B. Harrison, resident of Essex.
Frank H. Skinner, resident of Essex.
Samuel N. Atwater, resident of Essex.
George W. Mercer, Jr., resident of Essex.
Arthur B. Totten, resident of Somerset.

William C. Hubbard, resident of Union.

Henry W. Lockett, resident of Union.
Charles Divine, resident of Union.
Theodore J. Gillies, Jr., resident of Union.
Samuel H. Lockett, Jr., resident of Union.
Malcolm C. Ludlam, resident of Cape May.
J. C. Castner, resident of Middlesex.

Hunterdon, Rodney T. Howell, resident of Morris.

The Board report with much satisfaction that the Trustees of Rutgers College have done much more than the wording of their contract calls for to supply the educational and scientific want which is expressed in the United States law, which authorized the grant of land scrip for the establishment of colleges to teach the branches of science which benefit agriculture and the mechanic arts. The Trustees have expended liberally from their own funds to provide proper buildings,

farm and equipments to carry on the institution. Other States have appropriated liberal sums to supplement those arising from the land grant, while New Jersey has done nothing for the institution given to her up to this time. It has been left to work its own way to its present high position. It is now the unanimous recommendation of this Board that the State provide the College with a good Agricultural. Hall.

All of which is respectfully submitted.

WILLIAM PARRY,

President of the Board of Visitors..

TRUSTEES' REPORT.

RUTGERS COLLEGE,

NEW BRUNSWICK, December 1st, 1887.

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To His Excellency Robert S. Green, Governor of the State of New Jersey:

SIR-In compliance with the act of Congress, approved July 2d, 1862, and the act of the Legislature of New Jersey, approved April 4th, 1864, I beg leave to submit, on behalf of the Trustees of Rutgers College, the twenty-third annual report of Rutgers Scientific School.

I. THE FACULTY.

The Faculty of the institution is now constituted as follows:

Merrill Edwards Gates, Ph.D., LL.D., L.H.D., President, and Professor of Moral Philosophy.

George H. Cook, Ph.D., LL.D., Vice President, and Professor of Geology and Agriculture.

Rev. Theodore S. Doolittle, D.D., Professor of Rhetoric, Logic and Mental Philosophy.

Rev. Carl Meyer, D.D., Professor of French and German.

Francis C. Van Dyck, A.M., Professor of Physics and Experimental Mechanics.

Edward A. Bowser, C.E., LL.D., Professor of Mathematics and Engineering.

George B. Merriman, A.M., Professor of Mathematics and Astron

omy.

Peter Townsend Austen, Ph.D., F.C.S., Professor of General and Applied Chemistry.

Francis A. Wilber, M.S., Adjunct Professor of Analytical Chemistry.

Austin Scott, A.M., Ph.D., Professor of History, Political Economy and Constitutional Law.

Louis Bevier, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of the Modern Languages. John Thomas Honeycutt, 1st Lieut. U. S. Artillery, Professor of Military Science and Tactics.

Alfred Alexander Titsworth, M.S., C.E., Professor of Graphics and Mathematics.

II. COURSES OF STUDY AND DEGREES.

The courses of study in the Scientific School are as follows:

1. A course of four years in Civil Engineering and Mechanics.

2. A course of four years in Chemistry and Agriculture.

3. A special course of two years in Agriculture.

4. Post-Graduate Courses.

The two principal courses cover a period of four years each. The studies for the first year are the same in both courses.

At the end of the first year students elect whether to pursue the course in Civil Engineering and Mechanics, or that in Chemistry and Agriculture, and for the remaining three years their studies are directed with particular reference to the choice made. Some studies which go to the equipment of the intelligent citizen, whatever his occupation, such as History, English Literature, Political Economy, Moral Philosophy, Political Ethics and others, are interspersed throughout the entire four years, in order that students may not only acquire a thorough preparation for their special pursuits in life, but may at the same time receive a liberal training which will fit them to discharge wisely and usefully the duties of good citizenship.

Students completing either of the four-years' courses receive the degree of Bachelor of Science.

The degree of Master of Science is no longer conferred, in course, upon all graduates of three years' standing; but only on examination or for work done.

The degrees of Civil Engineer and Doctor of Philosophy are conferred for distinguished professional or practical success, or on examination in prescribed subjects.

The conditions on which the degrees are given will be found fully explained in the catalogue of Rutgers College.

THE SPECIAL COURSE IN AGRICULTURE affords young men an opportunity of acquiring, in the shortest time, the scientific knowledge necessary to success in practical farming. Students who pass their regular examination in the required subjects will, at the close of their course, receive certificates of their attainments. And at the end