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Hatcher who resigned because of ill health, her successor being Miss 

 Catherine Trebilcock. 



Miss Taylor was absent from College until November 1st, having spent 

 three months on a collecting trip in Washington in company with Pro- 

 fessor and Mrs. C. F. Kauffman of the University of Michigan. She ob- 

 tained a large amount of very valuable material for class work in plant 

 pathology. Owing to ill health brought on by overwork Miss Thompson 

 was granted a leave of absence from January 1st to August 31st. Her 

 place was filled for the winter and spring terms by Mr. Kitchin who 

 was made a full-time instructor for this period. 



Owing to changes in the courses of study of the Agricultural and Home 

 Economics divisions respectively there was a large falling off in the 

 number of lower classmen in botany. Beginning with last fall term, 

 botany was no longer required for freshmen in the Home Economics 

 course which caused a falling off of about 100 students in Botany la, 2a, 

 and 3a. Beginning with the freshmen class in the fall term of 1914 

 all the required botany was given in the freshman year, instead of part 

 in the winter term of the sophomore year. As a result Botany 4 was 

 not given last winter term, causing a drop on that account of about 175 

 more. 



The numbers of students for the different terms were as follows : 



Summer term 11 



Fall term. 



Freshman botany 267 



Other undergraduate subjects 156 



Post gradutes (major) 5 



Short course e4 



482 



Winter term. 



Freshman botany 256 



Other undergraduate subjects 84 



Post graduate (major 6 



Short course 25 



371 



Spring term. 



Freshman botany w 232 



Other undergraduate subjects 55 



Post graduates (major) 5 



292 



In this computation a student is counted but once for each course, 

 even where his lecture and laboratory work are given by different in- 

 structors. 



A subject like botany in which instruction consists of lectures and 

 laboratory work requiring a considerable amount of special apparatus 



