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DEPARTMENT REPORTS. 



REPORT OF THE PROFESSOR OF BOTANY AND FORESTRY. 



To the President, Hon. Edwin Willits, M. A.: 



The following table will show the number of students iu the classes which 

 have studied botany since my last report was made: 



Term. 



Autumn, 1885. 



Spring, 1886. 



Summer, 1886. 



Autumn, 1886. 



Studies. 



( Systematic Botany 



( Advanced Students 



( Physiological Botany 



( Advanced Students 



f Structural Botany 



\ Seniors Elective. Grasses 



I 



L Advanced Students 



r Systematic Botany , 



I 



^ Mechanical Students, Study of Woods., 



[Advanced Students 



Total 



Counted in last year 



Net total on the roll 



Number 

 in classes. 



52 



2 



44 

 2 



21 

 4 



79 



22 



3 



328 

 54 



374 



To teacli these students has required, on tlie average, about five hours a 

 •day for most of the time, saying nothing about special preparations and other 

 work. 



Whether the work has been satisfactory or not, you and the State Board of 

 Agriculture probably know. I have heard of no complaints, while the inter- 

 est of the students was all that could be desired. 



THE MUSEUM OF VEGETABLE PKODUCTS. 



Considerable work has been done during the year in adding specimens, in 

 writing labels and re-arransrino^ thinors accorJino; to tlie natural orders to which 

 they belong. Many visitors call at this museum, and compliments are numer- 

 ous, very likely because such a museum is a rare thing, while most people have 

 previously seen collections of fossils, skeletons, stuffed skins of animals, etc. 

 Lack of money and want of time on my part have made it out of the question 

 to place on exhibition everything which has been collected. Only a few speci- 

 mens can be purchased. To get them, some one (and he is usually the curator) 

 goes in person and brings them to the college. 



the' herbarium. 

 All the specimens, excepting a few collected during the last'part of the sea- 



