300 KKrORT OF OFKICK OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



staliiiii. Tlu-n" is a roiiiiiiitteo in iimiu'diuto rharjio of lln' fxperiiiieiit shiUoii. The 

 irlatioiis of Ihi' station to tlio presitU'nt of the univcTsity and latiT to the director are 

 set fortli in tlie following extracts from the minutes of the hoard of trustees. In the 

 afireenient with the jjresident, recorded on the minutes of the board for July 25, 1887, 

 appears the follo\vin<r: 



"The said president shall Ik- the iinancial head of the university and of the experi- 

 ment station, and all api>lications for the appropriation of money shall como throuj^h 

 liini and receive liis indorsement; all ai)propriation8 shall he for specific purpose.s, and 

 all hills from the university and tlie exj)eriment station shall he aj)proved l)y him 

 l)efore payment, and they shall be i)aid out of the appropriation made for the par- 

 ticular i>urpose for which the bills were created. 



"That he shall have general charge and oversight of the university, the farm, and 

 the experiment station, shall fix and regulate the courses and means of instruction 

 and experimentation; he shall make all regulations for tlie government of the uni- 

 versity and the experiment station, and shall determine and direct the work of all 

 the officers and agents of the same. * * * Provided that the courses of instruction 

 and the work of the experiment station shall be in conformity with the act of Con- 

 gress of July 2, 1862, and the act of 1887 establishing experiment stations in connec- 

 tion with the colleges in the several States, and with the several acts of the legislature 

 of Tennessee api)licable to the university. 



"That all official communications and requests addressed to the board, and all 

 orders for the faculty, shall ))e made through the president." 



At the meeting of July 8, 1890, upon the request of the president. Prof. F. Lamson- 

 Scril)ner was made director of the experiment station as well as botanist, and it was 

 stipulated at that time that the relations of the president to the boanl and the station 

 remaiiu'il unchanged, that the director was U) be an executive officer under thebcjard, 

 the farm connnittee, and the president, in charge of the detail work of the station. 



At the meeting of the board of June 5, 1893, a report was adopted setting forth 

 again : 



"First, the experiment station is a department of the university, and like the other 

 departments shall be under the general control of the president, aided by a committee 

 of the trustees, to be called the ex])eriment station committee. 



"Second, the president shall be the financial head of this department, as of all 

 others, and all the funds of the station shall be appnjpriated ])y the board upon his 

 recommendation and for specific purposes, and paid out only on warrants approved 

 by him, whicli must l)e fully itemi/.ed. 



"Third, the officers and assistants of the experiment station work shall be nomi- 

 nated by the jiresident, with the recommendation of such compensation as they 

 should receive," etc. 



On jSIay 14, 1901, A. M. Soule was made vice-director, and on February 3, 1903, 

 director. On the latter date his duties were outlined as follows: 



"The director of the experiment station shall be in charge of correspondence, 

 pul)lication, bulletin distribution, arrangements for institutes, and the routine work 

 of the station. He shall coordinate the work of the botanist, horticulturist, chemist, 

 liljrarian, and other officers of the station and direct and assist them when necessary. 

 He shall report to the president and through him to the experiment station committee 

 and the board. 



"The duties of the botanist, liorticnlturist, chemist, librarian, etc., shall be as 

 heretofore, subject to the general supervision of the director, who shall see that they 

 execute the work committed to their care in a proper manner. They will report to 

 the director and through him to the president, the committee, and the board." 



