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Fig. 2. — The Sage Conservatories. 



REPORT OF THE BOTANIST. 



The Botanical Department was organized at the beginning of 

 the University in 1868. It was provided at the outset with fair 

 facilities for instruction and considerable collections. Its general 

 equipment and collections have been gradually increased during 

 successive years. At the time of the organization of the Uni- 

 versity Experiment Station on the Hatch Act foundation, the de- 

 partment occupied suitable apartments which had been specially 

 provided for it in the south wing of Sage College, a fine building 

 donated to the University in 1872 by Hon. H. \V. Sage. 



These apartments consist of a large lecture room, thirty-six by 

 fiity-eight feet, with sittings for one hundred and fifty-six students, 

 which may be increased to two hundred as occasion demands. 

 Adjoining the lecture room is the principal laboratory, sixty feet 

 in length by twenty-eight feet in breadth at its widest part. This 

 is well lighted by north windows and is supplied with work tables 

 fixed to the wall so as to make them as firm as possible for mi- 

 croscopic work. Adjoining this laboratory and the lecture room, 



