DEPARTMENT REPORTS. 



83 



Winter Term. 



Number 



of 

 students. 



Mineralogy 



Qual. Anal, men 



Special Short Course Chemistry 



Dairy Chemistry 



Beet Sugar Technology 



Agriculture, 9b (Special work). 



Total 



148 



91 



77 



11 



6 



2 



335 



Amount received from the above students in laboratory fees, $2,247.00. 



^^, and also affords us additional space for general laboratory 

 is the ''original lectnre room" wliicli has been re- 

 with new seats and affords an excellent lecture room for the 



This work has been accomplished with a minimum expenditure of 

 effort on account of the additional space afforded this department by 

 the removal of the physical department from the chemical laboratory 

 to the new engineering building. In the basement at the north end 

 of the building formerly occupied by the physical department for 

 laboratory work and divided up into several rooms we have now one 

 large well lighted room which has been especially fitted for work in 

 mineralogv 

 work. Above this 

 fitted with new 



courses in organic chemistry. Adjacent to this is the office and work 

 room of Assistant Professor Reed. A portion of the space formerly used 

 by the physical department as a private laboratory on this floor has 

 been connected with the analytical room giving us a small but very 

 convenient balance room for beginning work. Above this is a sky-light 

 which assists very materially in the ventilation both of the balance room 

 and the connecting laboratory. Q'hese improvements were authorized 

 by the Board in July, 1007, and were completed just in time to be 

 available at the opening of the year's work. 



The assay material and furnaces for fire assay were early this spring 

 removed to an outhouse some distance south of Wells Hall which 

 has been fitted up and made into a very convenient room for fire assay 

 work. We have now two Cupel and one Crucible furnace mounted so 

 as to be read^' for work at any time. Removing this material from the 

 chemical laboratory and establishing it by itself makes the danger from 

 fire in the laboratory very much less and is a decided improvement. 

 This additional space enables us to teach the elements of fire assay 



