48 STATE BOAED OF AGKICULTURE. 



HISTORY AND POLITICAL ECONOMY. 



This newly constituted department is in charge of Professor George H. Har- 

 rower. Tiie Freshman class have a term in Ancient and Mediasval History, 

 the Seniors a half term in the Pliilosophy of History, a half term in the Con- 

 stitution of the United States, and a term in Political Economy. If time 

 could be found for a term in Modern European History, and one for United 

 States History, the course would be greatly improved. 



Professor Harrower has done a large amount of work in the department of 

 Englisli Language. 



ENGLISH LITERATUEE AND LANGUAGE. 



This department is in charge of Prof. Elias J. MacEwan. The labor, how- 

 ever, involved in it is too great for one man to perform, and help has to be 

 called in from other departments. Prof. MacEwan's report gives the work in 

 detail. 



French has been displaced from the course of study, and its three terms 

 given to the fuller study of the English Language. 



CHEMISTRY. 



The chemistry department covers the wide range of elementary chemistry, 

 analytical chemistry, chemical physics, agricultural chemistry, and meteor- 

 ology. 



The course of study begins with the beginning of the Sophomore year, and 

 runs continuously through two years. 



The chemical laboratory has been much enlarged and the lecture room made 

 very light for delicate experiments. Excellent apparatus, a mineralogical 

 museum, a sorghum mill, and crops grown by the farm or garden are the 

 equipments of the department. The department made an exliibition at the 

 State fair in Detroit in 1881. 



At present the department is engaged in experiments on sorghum, the Legis- 

 lature having made, unasked, an appropriation for the purpose of $1,000. 



The chemical department is in charge of Robert C. Kedzie, M. D., since the 

 spring of 1863. His assistant is Frank S. Kedzie, M. S., class 1877. 



FARM. 



The catalogue gives an account of the farm department. The class room 

 instruction consists of a course of lectures to the Freshmen twelve weeks, and 

 another to the Seniors twelve weeks. Between the two courses the students 

 will have had botany, chemistry, agricultural chemistry, comparative anatomy, 

 and physiology, and other branches more or less closely allied to practical 

 agriculture. The department is in charge of Professor Samuel Johnson, 

 assisted by the foreman, Abram S. Birch, and, at times, an assistant in expe- 

 riments. It has command of a herdsman, two teamsters, and a student 

 force equal to that of the Horticultural Dejoartment. 



The Legislature, 1881, made, unasked, an appropriation of $1,000, for ex- 

 periments, chiefly in ensilage; for an account of which, as well as for the 

 large improvement in stock, buildings, and otlier farm matters, reference is to 

 be made to Professor Johnson's report. 



ZOOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT. 



The zoological department is in charge of Professor A. J. Cook, since 1869. 

 The subjects of instruction are anatomy, physiology, and entomology, in lee- 



