138 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



The above clearly shows the need of additional help in the teaching 

 of anatomy and is indigent to its development and attainment. The 

 need of a full time assistant is real. 



In the 1916 report for this department mention was made of the in- 

 adequate and unsuitable room allotted to anatomical work and to the 

 development of a museum of anatomical material. That condition 

 still obtains. Need for a building to house the anatomy and pathologj'^ 

 work of this institution is urgent and warrantable, a structure similar 

 to the two story engineering shop but having three floors at a cost of 

 about 135,000, would repay many times its cost to the state. 



Yours trulv, 

 FRANK W. CHAMBERLAIN, 

 Associate Professor of Anatomy. 

 East Lansing, Mich., June 30, 1917. 



REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF BACTERIOLOGY AND 



HYOIENE. 



President F. S. Kedzie. 



Dear Sir — The most notable event in the work of this department 

 during the school year has been in connection with our relations to the 

 Division of Home Economics. Extensive alterations have been made 

 in the students' laboratory for the accommodation of about one hundred 

 additional women students in our first laboratory course in bacteriology. 

 We are so impressed with the results of the five credit lecture course 

 for women in place of the two credit courses throughout the year that 

 we strongly advise that men students substitute a similar five credit, 

 one term course for the two credit courses extending throughout the 

 year. This would be in the interest of economj^ and efiiciency. 



Assistant Professor Northrup reports on the laboratory instruction 

 as follows : 



^^The instructional Avork under my immediate supervision comprising 

 courses 2, 3, 4, 11 and 23 was carried on by Mr. W. L. Kulp and myself 

 during the summer and fall terms. At the end of the fall term Mr. 

 Kulp resigned, and Mr. F. W. Fabian took his place, assuming his duties 

 the first of January. Although the winter term presented the hardest 

 work and the most problems to solve, Mr. Fabian proved himself capable 

 of meeting the various situations, and successfully instructed in courses 

 2 and 4. 



"This winter term marks the first required laboratory course in 

 bacteriology in the Home Economics course since the year 1904-05 and 

 its institution placed before us certain problems most of Avhich were 

 due to lack of room and equipment, or to an inability to utilize to' 

 advantage that Avhich is furnished, either from poor arrangement or 

 poor quality of material. With the institution of this new course 

 it will be mandatoiy to have new laboratories and additional instructors 

 soon if the tabulated increase in enrollment in the Home Economics 

 Division continues proportionately. It is unfortunate that Course 2 



