Transcribe Ward, Henry A. Letter to Orton, James (1855-09-20)

As to your studies I will tell you what I can. The courses of study at the Jardin des Plantes and Ecole des Mines are eminently calculated for this who wish to study science in </u particular, > but can be so attended as to meet the wants of those who wish to study it </u in general. > The chairs are so apportioned as to allow each professor to go to the bottom of his subject. I have not as yet seen the programme for this year but remember a little of its character last fall. Chemistry employed three Professors - one on </u organic > another on </u inorganic > & a third on its </u electrophysical relations. > In minerology ^courses of^ lectures were given on </u Chystallography .> on the </u Combustible Minerals. > & on the </u Metals. > In Geolozzone Prof. lectured on the </u rocks, minerallogically considered. > A 2d on </u economical Geology > & a third (Elie de Beaumont) oer </u Mountain Chains > & all the theoretical part of geology. </u Paleontology > comprised 2 or 3 chairs according as their professors were near or far from the surface. & Zoology </s 4 or 5 > ^6 or 7^ of which I remember one on the </u Radiator one > on the </u Molluses, one on the Artianlata, one on the </u vertebrata > one on the </u animals in a domestic point of view > & one on </u Anthropology >. There ^are^ also lectures on </u Botany, Physics applied. > & e. which I know nothing about. The selectures are at all hours & from them the