52 STATE BOAKD OF AGRICULTURE. 



SPECIAL APPKOPKIATIOXS, 



The special a])j)ropvi;itiou made by the hist Ijogishituve to buy chemical ap- 

 paratus for the Laboratory was in part diverted to pay the necessary expenditures 

 required for carrying out the special investigation in regard to the food-value 

 of Michigan wheats, made last year, and the expenditure required to collect, 

 analyze, and properly exhibit the soils fro:n the northern counties, made this 

 year. I think the public will approve the expenditure of money for such pur- 

 poses ; but to prevent such diversion of a fund in tiie future, I ask that the 

 Board include in their estimates for 1879 and 1880, the sum of S250 for each 

 year, to defray the expenses of special investigations in the chemical depart- 

 ment. I also ask that the sum of $^500 l)e included in the estimates for each 

 of the years named to buy apparatus required in the Laboratory, and especially 

 required for certain proposed investigations in regard to the food-value of 

 grasses and forage plants. 'JMie price of one instrument required for such iiu 

 investigation is $325. 



MORE ROOM. 



The building of the Laboratory was made necessary by the large influx of 

 students. AVhen it was built the lecture-room was supposed to be large enough 

 to meet the wants of the College for all time, as it would seat 80 students, 

 while it was expected that the analytical room, which affords work-roonr for 

 only 48 students, would require to bo enlarged at some future day. But the 

 students attending lectures in elementary chemistry this term number 88; and 

 when this class enters the analytical room next year, there will be work-room 

 for only about half their number. In eight years Ave have outgrown the Labo- 

 ratory, ana I now take up the words of the prophet of old : "the place is too 

 strait for me, give place to me that I may dwelL"' 



The plans and estimates for the required changes will be laid before the 

 Board at an early date. 



ASSISTANT IN CHEMISTRY. 



My Assistant in Chemistry has been my right hand in tlie work of the year. 

 Besides the invaluable assistance in the analysis of corn, and of soils, he has- 

 made independent investigations in regard to the composition of milk, and of 

 honey, the results of whicli I hope to see placed before the public at an early 

 day. 



All of which is respectfully submitted. 



E. C. KEDZIE, 



Prof, of Chemistry and Curator of Chemical Mu!<cum.. 

 August 26, 1878. 



KEPOKT OF THE PHOFESSOK OF ENGLISH LITEUATUKE. 



To the President of the College: 



In this report of duties connected witli my ])rofessor?hip, I shall not include 

 matters pertaining to tiic oversight of tlie College Library, since these can bet- 

 ter be presented in a separate report. 



The three classes under my cbai'ge on September 30th, 1877, completed tho- 



