Annual catalogue of the officers, students and graduates of the Kansas State Agricultural College, Manhattan ... . cal work in actual building operations. EQUIPMENT. The .College is well equipped to maintain a course in architecture. Its me-chanical workshops are the most extensive west of the Missouri; its physicalscience laboratories are provided with an abundance of modern scientific appa-ratus ; it owns a rapidly growing collection of several hundred plaster casts, tileand terra-cotta samples, marble specimens, etc.; it has a fine collection ofmodels of the classic orders; a collection of
Annual catalogue of the officers, students and graduates of the Kansas State Agricultural College, Manhattan ... . cal work in actual building operations. EQUIPMENT. The .College is well equipped to maintain a course in architecture. Its me-chanical workshops are the most extensive west of the Missouri; its physicalscience laboratories are provided with an abundance of modern scientific appa-ratus ; it owns a rapidly growing collection of several hundred plaster casts, tileand terra-cotta samples, marble specimens, etc.; it has a fine collection ofmodels of the classic orders; a collection of blue-prints of nearly all the Kansasstate buildings; a large number of modern books on architecture and engineer-ing; a bound set of the International edition of the American Architect; abound set of the Inland Architect and of several European architectural maga-zines, a well-equipped blue-print room, etc. The substantial stone bulding is ofthe institution and the complete system of water-supply, drainage, heating andlighting furnish excellent illustrative material. —4 60 KANSAS STATE AGRICULTURAL FOKTY-SECOND ANNUAL CATALOGUE. 51 Botany. The instruction in the botanical department is along three lines: First, as a Pure Science.— The department aims to give the student thetraining in observation and scientific reasoning, and also the information whiehhe should have as a matter of general knowledge, regardless of his subsequentvocation. Botany is the first natural science to which the student is introducedin his College course, and for this reason it is necessary that he receive in thisdepartment his elementary training in scientific methods. Second, as a Science Underlying Agriculture.—It is well recognized thatbotany is one of the most important of the sciences upon which the practice ofagriculture is based, for the reason that botany deals with plant life, and plantlife is at the basis of agriculture. , illustrations and ex-amples in both
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