DEPARTMENT REPORTS. 143 



Winter Term, 1917— 



Freshmen Botany 221 



Other undergraduate courses 103 



Postgraduate (major) 5 



Short Course 15 



344 

 Spring Term, 1917— 



Freshmen Botany 188 



Other undergraduate courses 57 



Postgraduate 3 



248 



Where in the same subject a student takes his lectures and laboratory 

 work under different instructors or in different sections he is counted 

 but once in the foregoing tables. 



Failing to obtain any action on my recommendation made every year 

 now for the last five years that the roof of the Botany Building he 

 raised so as to make a complete third floor, thus adding about thirty 

 per cent to the available laboratory space in the building, it became nec- 

 essary to make over the northeast basement room of the old part of 

 the building for a laboratoiy to be used by advanced students. This 

 room has many disadvantages, in jjarticular the fact that the windows 

 are so small and high up in the w^all that the light is poor and artificial 

 illumination has to be used all the time. 



The southeast basement room of the older part of the building has 

 been opened through to the newer part of the building as well, and fitted 

 up for a stockroom for glassware and chemicals. Although not as light 

 or convenient as could be desired it is however, a great advance over 

 previous conditions. 



In pursuance of the policy inaugurated by the Board and carried 

 out in naming the buildings on the campus it seems to me that no finer 

 tribute could be paid to my predecessor than to give his name to the 

 Botany Building, perhaps calling it the Beal Botanical Laboratory. 

 Dr. Beal has devoted the best part of a long, useful life to the interests 

 of this College and has gained nation and world wide'^recognition in 

 certain lines of botany and would surely appreciate such a tribute given 

 him while still living, far more than all the praises that might be 

 expressed at the occasion of his funeral. 



As far as the limited funds and time available admitted work has 

 been pushed on the Flora of Michigan. In this work Assistant Pro- 

 fessor Darlington has carried on the greater part of the studies. In 

 company with him I made another collecting trip down the whole Mus- 

 kegon Kiver valley in August, 1916. We started at Higgins Lake, stop- 

 ping for three days at the State Forest where we were the guests of 

 Mr. Marcus Schaaf, to whose hospitality was due the opportunity^ to 

 make some vei'y valuable collections. From there we went to Michelson, 

 Houghton Lake, McBain, Temple, Farwell, Evart, Hersey, Big Kapids, 

 Newaygo, where we visited Hess Lake, Fremont and Muskegon. At 

 Fremont we were assisted very materially by Keats Vining, teacher of 

 botany in Fremont high school, who piloted us among the chain of 



