Excerpt from Science and Art; Systems, Institutions and Statistics of Scientific Instruction, Applied to National Industries in Different Countries, Vol. 1: Austria, Baden, Bavaria, Brunswick, Free Cities, Hanover, Nassau, Prussia, Saxony, Saxon-Principalities, Wurtemberg, France, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Russia, Switzerland, Italy

Evening Classes of elementary instruction for young persons in his em ployment whose school education had been neglected, and of instruction in drawing, chemistry and mechanics for such of his adult workmen as chose to avail themselves of it. In 1854, his plan was expanded into a regularly organized School of Mechanics and Engineering. As the re sources from which he intended to endow it accumulated, he included courses of practical agriculture, horticulture and landscape gardening; and finally, on the breaking out of the war, he signified his purpose to alternate the practical work of the shop and the field with military drill. The institution thus projected and expanded was a comprehensive Poly technic School - which would at once supply through its evening classes the deficient elementary schooling of his own workmen, meet the wants of technical instruction in any occupation in the community in which he lived, and gfl'er a thorough scientific basis for the practical tiaining of the agriculturist, the architect, the engineer, the machinist, the designer, the manufacturer, the miner and metallurgist, as well as of the condi date for any other of the leading industries of the country.

In the inception and development of his plan, he was pleased to con sult me; and in 1854 signified his desire to name we in the instrument by which he should create and endow the trust, with a request that I would obtain full and reliable accounts of all establishments at home or abroad, which had any feature in common with the 1-0t which he con twplatcd, and which it was his purpose to endow by will beyond any literary institution in New England; and to be prepared to report a plan, when called ou.

In pursuance of this request, and of studies already widely extended in the field of scientific and technical instruction, a large portion of the material for the chapters and special sections which compose this volume, were collected, and to some extent prepared for publication and printed in the American Journal of Education, at the time of Col. Colt's death -ia 1862, when it was found that his original purpose to endow by will such an institution had been revoked by a later codicil.

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