DEPARTMENT REPORTS. 77 



Text Book in Algebra for engineering students; Wentworth's Geometry; 

 Todd's New Astronomj^ for engineers; Yonng's Elements of Astronomy 

 for women; Murray's Differential Calculus; Asliton & Marsh's Trig- 

 onometry; Beeman & Smith's Higher Arithmetic; Baker's Koads and 

 Pavements; Baker's Masonry Construction; Turneaure & Russell's Pub- 

 lic Water Supplies; Folwell's Sewerage. 



The inventory of the department aggregated |13,412.06 as compared 

 with 17,906.21 in 1906. 



The total expenditure by the department during the year for all pur- 

 poses has been |6;718.90, of which |133 was turned in for special ex- 

 aminations. 



Eespectfully submitted. 



H. K. VEDDER, 

 Professor of Mathematics and Civil Engineering. 



East Lansing, Mich., June 30, 1908. 



REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND ELECTRICAL 



ENGINEERING. 



President J. L. Snyder: 



Dear Sir : — Since my last report the department has moved into their 

 new quarters, using the basement, first and second floors of the west 

 half of the engineering building. We have had a very strenuous year, 

 as the building was not ready for us to move in before the beginning 

 of school, hence our apparatus was not completed until after the be- 

 ginning of school, which made quite a little confusion. However we 

 have been able to put the work on a very different basis than hereto- 

 fore, on account of the increased accommodations. 



Instead of one laboratory for all of the work in physics we now have 

 four good sized rooms in which to do all of the laboratory work of 

 the dift'erent classes. Instead of one lecture room Ave now have a 

 larger lecture room, seating 128 students, and an auxiliary lecture room 

 which will hold forty students, and a quiz room. 



We have enrolled 802 students this year, which is considerable more 

 than any previous year. 



Due to changes, we have not had as many students this year as we 

 shall have next year. The physics work of the engineering students 

 has been changed from the freshmen to the sophomore year. A course 

 in photography has been authorized by the faculty, and next year we 

 shall have that class to handle as well, so that we shall soon be taxing 

 our cai)acit3% if the present increase is kept up. 



Last summer Mr. Curtis resigned, and there has been in the depart- 

 ment since, Mr. W. L. Lodge, Mr. C. W. Chapman, and INIr. W. H. 

 Wadleigh, for the work in Physics, and E. N. Bates, in the electrical 

 engineering, besides myself. 



