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to prove, by experiment, their: natural qualities, as food of the several species of domestic animals; in order to ascertain which of them are objects of culture, and which of extirpation:—a subject that requires great and continued exertion. Native plants that are now neglected may, thereby, be found valua- ble; and exotics of known value may, by persevering art, be reconciled to this climate.

4. Professor of farriery, and of the animal economy:—to teach, by living subjects, the outward form, the texture of the flesh, the constitution, habits and modes of subsistence, of the different species of domestic animals,—by dissec- tions and preparations, their inward structure and general economy,—and, by operations, médicines, and applications,

‘direct the cure of the diseases to which

they are~ severally liable: also the shoeing of working animals; guarding every description from insects, and ac~- Ce