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pleasant relations and most courteous treatment from all the faculty. 

 Hardly less keen is my regret at parting with our students. I have with 

 very few exceptions found them earnest, enthusiastic, and always gentle- 

 men. To be associated with such colleagues and such students leaves 

 little to be desired in way of associations. 



I leave principally because of the attractions of California, and the fact 

 that my department with the assistants I have had is too large for me to 

 do the work as I desire to do it. 



In conclusion I earnestly hope that the department may be divided, and 

 that two professors instead of one may be appointed to do the work that 

 I have been called upon to perform. In the present excellent condition of 

 the department. I am sure that this alone is necessary to make it the peer 

 at least of any similar department in the country. 



Thanking you Mr. President and all others here for the aid and kindness 

 which I have received uniformly at your and their hands, 



I am very truly, 

 Ageicultural College P. O., ( A. J. COOK. 



November 10, 1893. \ 



REPOKT OF THE PROFESSOR OF BOTANY AND FORESTRY. 



To President Clute: 



I present the following as my report for the year closing June 30, 1893. 

 During the year students have received instruction in botany as follows: 



Freshmen in structural botany, twelve weeks 44 



Sophomores in systematic botany, six weeks daily 25 



Sophomores in systematic botany, one day per week for twelve weeks 25 



Sophomores in physiological botany, twelve weeks, daily 29 



Seniors in parasitic fungi , twelve weeks, daily 8 



Resident graduates for two weeks to two terms, daily IS 



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THE HERBARIUM. 



The growth of the herbarium may be seen by the enumeration of 

 additions made during the last twelve months. The additions are not so 

 large as they were during each of the two preceding years. 



The following are the additions for the last twelve mouths: 



J. H. Simpson, from U. S. Dept, of Agr., Florida plants 87 



T. Morong, New York, Naiadaceae 91 



J. K Small, S. W. Virginia plants 300 



M. E. Jones, Utah and Rocky Mountain plants 2,802 



H. N. Patterson, Colorado plants 160 



B. C. Buffum, Wyoming grasses 98 



Dr. H. H. Rusby, Bolivian plants 75 



