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must be provided very shortly, otherwise disintegration of the present 

 departmental work and organization is to be expected. All the 

 activities of the Department during the winter season, when the field 

 laboratory men are here, have to be confnied to the attic floor space of 

 approximately twenty-five hundred square feet, divided into offices and 

 laboratories by partitions that are for the most part only iiead-high. 

 With three typewriters in constant operation, with many students doing 

 laboratory work, photographing, making culture media, and the like, all 

 virtually in one room, the recommendation that more room be provided 

 for the Department would seem imperative. 



Next to the need for room is the necessity for increased maintenance 

 funds for the Department. It now takes every cent of the funds appor- 

 tioned to this Department to maintain the teaching equipment and routine 

 work and to provide equipment, inadequate even though it is, for the 

 present field laboratories. This leaves no funds available for traveling 

 expenses, for collecting materials for teaching, or for such investigations 

 conducted by the stafif as are not provided for by fellowship funds.- 

 Additional funds for regular maintenance should be provided to meet 

 such expenses. The present inadequacy of maintenance funds for 

 expenses of investigations, and the overloading of the stafif with teaching 

 and administration work, makes it quite out of the question for members 

 of the stalT to do research of any considerable extent. 



The next greatest need is that of increase of stafif. In the teaching 

 work, especially in the elementary course, the staff should be at least 

 doubled if we are to properly handle the students who desire the work. 

 At present the excessive number of students are taught at the expense of 

 time and energy which should be devoted to study and research by pro- 

 fessors and instructors. The addition of another professor or assistant 

 professor, and of two instructors, to the teaching stafif is necessary. 

 Another assistant should also be provided for the work incident to in- 

 creased numbers of laboratory periods required to handle additional 

 students. 



The administration of the research work on our industrial fellowships 

 was put into the hands of Doctor Reddick last year. Already additions 

 to the research staff of the Department become necessary. An assistant 

 professor and at least one instructor should be provided next year 

 (1913-1914), to help Doctor P.eddick with this work. 



The extension phase of the work of this Department is at present 

 satisfactorily provided for. although with the rapid growth of demands 

 on the time of Professor Barrus it is evident that very shortly he will 

 require additional stafif assistance for his work. 



