ELECTRICITY,

By Professor F. C. Van Dyck, Ph.D.

The fundamental facts of static electricity, and the fluid theory; technical terms and units; frictional and induction machines, condensers; natural phenomena; principles and practical applications of magnetism; voltaic couples; measuring instruments, arrangement of circuits, Ohm's law; decomposition by the current, laws of electrolysis, counter electromotive force, storage cells; heating of conductors by current, production of current by heat.

ENTOMOLOGY,

By Professor John B. Smith, Sc. D.

This course is intended to give an outline of the structure, habits, and systematic classification of insects in general. The lectures will be illustrated by models and lantern slides, and the subjects taken up will include-the external structure, the circulation and respiration, the organs of nutrition and assimilation, the nervous system and sensory organs, the transformations, homes, social organization and breeding habits, and a brief characterization of each order. It is intended, throughout, to contrast the insect structures with those of higher animals and to pay especial attention to those that are useful rather than injurious to man.

GEOLOGY,

By Professor Frank L. Nason, A.M.

The formation of the world, its rock crust, ocean basins, sedimentary deposits, rocks, mountains; succession of life, fossil animals and plants: volcanoes and earthquakes; how minerals are brought within reach of man; water, hot and cold springs and their work; alluvium, flood plains, ice, glaciers, moraines, etc.; formation of soils, their composition and use; inorganic matter as food and in the arts; building and ornamental stones, what gives them their value; mines and mining, metalliferous deposits: coal, oil and natural gas, their origin and how to search for them; plastic and refractory materials, clay, sand, etc.; precious and semiprecious stones, how they occur; the microscope in terrestrial geology, and the spectroscope in the geology of other worlds than ours, aerolites, meteorites and what they teach us, or geology revealed by sunlight and starlight; the work of geologists and how amateurs may contribute to geological science, local geology.

MINERALOGY,

By Professor A. H. Chester, E.M., Ph.D., Sc.D.

This series of lectures will take up at first the general principles of the science, discussing it under each of the several branches into which it is divided. Later some of the more characteristic minerals will be described, particularly those which are used as ores. Crystallography will receive special attention. The course will be illustrated by specimens from the college collections, and from that of the lecturer.

ZOOLOGY,

By Professor Julius Nelson, Ph.D.

This course begins with a study of the oyster, after which the subkingdoms are taken up in order, beginning with the lowest forms of life and ending with the highest as follows: life, protoplasm and cells; animalcules and sponges, jellyfish and corals; worms; lobsters, etc.; clams, snails, etc.; starfishes and sea urchins; sea squirts, fishes, and frogs; reptiles and birds; mammals.

The cost of these courses to any organization in the State constituting itself an Extension Centre averages about $20 a lecture-study, but those requiring illustration with the lantern or by means of experiments are somewhat more expensive. Details will be given on application. This charge entitles a centre to the entire course and to 75 copies of the syllabus. No bill of extras will be rendered. If more than 75 copies of the syllabus are required they may be had at 10 cents a copy. These are the charges for the work under all heads except that of Agriculture. For the courses in Agriculture the price has been set at $10 a lecture-study. This is only possible through the generosity of friends of the late Dr. George H. Cook, who purpose to develop thus the work begun by him for the benefit of the farmers of New Jersey.

All inquiries should be sent to Louis Bevier, Jr., the Secretary of the Extension Department.

THE NEW JERSEY STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE EXPERIMENT STATION.

By the Act of Congress of March 2d, 1887, a law was passed entitled "An act to establish Agricultural Experiment Stations in connection with the Colleges established in the several States under the provisions of an act approved July 2d, 1862, and of the acts supplementary thereto." This act is commonly known as the "Hatch Act," from the active interest taken in its passage by Hon. William H. Hatch, M.C., of Missouri. It authorizes the appropriation of $15,000 annually for the support of Agricultural Experiment Stations in connection with the Colleges which were established in the several States "for the benefit of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts," by the Congressional Act of July 2d, 1862.

The Legislature of New Jersey, by its acts of March 16th, 1887,

and of March 5th, 1888, designated the Trustees of Rutgers College as the parties to whom all moneys appropriated by Congress under said acts of Congress or supplements thereto shall be paid for the purposes mentioned in said acts of Congress." The department of Rutgers College known as Rutgers Scientific School is, by law, the State Agricultural College. The Agricultural Experiment Station is established in connection with it.

By the co-operation of the State Experiment Station, & large and well-fitted laboratory has been erected, and investigations are in progress upon the insect enemies of plants, upon the food-products of our fresh and salt waters, and their improvement, upon the diseases of plants, and the application of science to the growth of agricultural and horticultural products, and upon the food consumption and the value of the products of the best breeds of dairy cattle.

While the main business of such a Station is in searching after new truths, and arranging them for practical and economic use, the proper location for it is in connection with an institution of learning. Almost all our investigators are teachers. The investigation and diffusion of knowledge necessarily go hand in hand; and the example of men devoted to the searching for useful truths is stimulating to those who are yet in their preparatory studies, and are aspiring to fill well their places in life.

It is from those now preparing that our future investigators must come, and it is important that they should have those who are now in the field of work directly before them. In this respect it is believed the location of the Station at the College will be most salutary in its influence.

GENERAL INFORMATION.

EXAMINATIONS.

The classes in both departments are examined at the close of each term. These examinations are partly oral and partly written, and have an important bearing upon the standing of the student in his class.

Unexpected examinations at irregular intervals are held at the discretion of each instructor. The object of these examinations is to cultivate the habit of considering the relations of each day's work to what has been done before, and to stimulate effort on the part of each student to gain a comprehensive knowledge of the subjects studied.

At the end of the first and third terms, the examinations of the classes of the Scientific Section are held in the presence of the Board of Visitors, who then make their semi-annual visits to the institution.

At the end of the third term, each member of the Graduating Class of the Scientific Section is required to present a thesis on some scientific subject, a copy of which is written out upon paper suitable for binding and deposited in the College Library.

The final examination of the Graduating Classes is held four weeks before Commencement, from which time they are subject to such duties as are required for their preparation for Commencement.

Students who receive conditions at the June Examinations must report at College prepared to be examined upon the whole of each of the subjects on which they have conditions, at 10 A.M. on the Tuesday before College opens, in September.

GRADUATION.

To all members of the Graduating Class of the Classical Department, in full standing, the Trustees grant diplomas conferring the Academic degree of Bachelor of Arts.

To all members of the Graduating Class of the Scientific Department, in full standing, the Trustees grant diplomas conferring the Academic degree of Bachelor of Science.

To students, in either Department, who have satisfactorily pursued special courses of study, a certificate is granted stating the studies pursued and the attainments made.

CLASS HONORS.

The following regulations have been adopted by the Board of Trustees regarding the graduating exercises at Commencement:

1. There shall be three scholarship honors in each section of the Graduating Class, awarded to those students who shall stand first, second and third respectively, in all the required studies of the Classical or Scientific curriculum, provided that in each individual case the student so standing shall rank among the first four in the major subject or subjects of his elective course. A failure on the part of any candidate to fulfill this condition will render the student standing next in grade of general scholarship eligible, subject to the same condition regarding the elective course.

2. There shall be no distinction by way of comparison between the scholarship honors of the Classical School and those of the Scientific School.

3. The three scholarship honors of each School shall be designated as follows:

4. An oration to be known as the Rhetorical Honor shall be awarded to that member of either section of the class of those ranking in general grade of scholarship among the first half of his class in all the required studies of the Classical or Scientific curriculum, who shall have received the highest grade in Composition and Elocution during the Junior and Senior years.

A student may receive any one of the three Scholarship Honors and the Rhetorical Honor, but he shall deliver only one oration at Commencement.

5. Two other orations shall be awarded as follows: From a list which shall include those students from both sections of the class who stand in the first half in grade of scholarship in all the required studies of the course, and which shall exclude those who have received Scholarship Honors or the Rhetorical Honor, the two students having the highest grade in Composition and Elocution during the Junior and Senior years shall be chosen as orators.