MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY. PRESIDENT'S REPORT FOR THE Year ending Sept. 30, 1875. BOSTON : Extracts from Acts of the General Court of Massachusetts, in relation to he Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Act of Incorporation. "William B. Rogers [and others named], their associates and successors, are hereby made a body corporate, by the name of the MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, for the purpose of instituting and maintaining a Society of Arts, a Museum of Arts, and a School of Industrial Science, and aiding generally, by suitable means, the advancement, development, and practical application of sciences in connection with arts, agriculture, manufactures, and commerce." Chapter 183, Acts and Resolves of 1861. Grant of Public Lands. "When the Massachusetts Institute of Technology shall have been duly organized, located, and established, appropriated and paid to its treasurer, each year, on the warrant of the Governor, for there shall be its endowment, support, and maintenance, one third part of the annual interest or income which may be received from the fund created under and by virtue of the 130th chapter of the Acts of the 37th Congress, at the second session thereof, approved July 2, 1862 [giving Public Lands to the States in aid of instruction in Agriculture, the Mechanic Arts, and Military Science and Tactics]. of Technology, in addition to the objects set forth in its Act of Incorporation [as above Said Institute quoted], shall provide for instruction in military tactics." Chapter 186, Acts and Resolves of 1863. Power to confer Degrees. "The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is hereby authorized and empowered to award and confer degrees appropriate to the several courses of study pursued in said Institution, on such conditions as are usually prescribed in universities and colleges in the United States, and according to such tests of proficiency as shall best promote the interests of sound education in this Commonwealth." Chapter 247, Acts and Resolves of 1868. Department of Descriptive Geometry, Stereotomy, and Drawing The Instruction in Physiology and Hygiene, and Zoology Lowell Free Courses for 1874-75. Abstracts of Theses presented by Graduates of 1874-75. Salem Water Works, by Frank S. Dodge. The Iron Bowstring Girder over the Charles River at Waltham, Tunnelling, by Edward A. W. Hammatt The Construction of Gear Teeth, by Thomas Hibbard The Stamps of Lake Superior compared, by C. W. Goodale Burleigh Tunnel Ore, Colorado, by B. A. Oxnard Working of an Ore of Silver and Lead, from Newbury, Mass., Treatment of a Silver Ore, from Silver Islet, Wood's Location, Lake Superior, by H. L. J. Warren Designs for the buildings for a City Water Works, by Amos J. Anthracene Pressings, by Leonard P. Kinnicutt Report of a Series of Experiments with a Holtz Machine, by |