1(11 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



aciivily is one wliirli slioiild be eiicoura^cMl in every way and it is 

 forlnnate not only for tlui class i-ooni slndy ol' these associations but also 

 ])erliaps for the associations themselves that a small appropriation has 

 been assigned this department for the study of these organizations. 



In concluding this brief report, Ihe head of th(^ depariment <lesires 

 to express his gralihuh' to his two associates — Assistant Professor Dun- 

 ford and lutructor Miller — for their unflagging zeal in the interests 

 of the various phases of economics at this College. 



llesi)eci fully su1>mitt(^d, 



WILIJIIK O. lI]*:i)KICK, 



I'rofessor of Economics. 

 East Lansing, Mich., June :U), 11)17. 



KEl'OlIT OF THE DEPAKTMENT OF PHYSICS. 



President F. S. Kedzie, College. 



Dear Sir — Herewith I submit a brief report of the Department of 

 Physics for the year ending June .30, 1917 — my first annual report, as 

 well as the first for the Department of I'hysics. 



On July 1, 191G, the Department of Physics became a separate de- 

 ])artment by action of the State Board of Agriculture, with an office 

 located on the first floor. And three rooms (laboratories) in the basement 

 of the Forestry Building. Until Thanksgiving last, when Professors 

 Sawyer and Cory of the Department of Electrical lOngineering, moved 

 into different quarters; the former into Slio]) No. 1; the latter to the 

 II. E. Olds Hall of Engineer-ii.g, the office, as well as the other rooms 

 indicated, were shared with the I)e]>artment of Electrical Engineering. 

 I'rofessor Sawyer finished the moving of his api)aratns during the 

 Christmas vacation, thus leaving the Physics department the use of the 

 rooms previously occupied by tiie two departments in common. Due 

 to the fact that the entiie staff of the Depai'tmcnt of IMiysics shared 

 the same office, department meetings were of daily occurrence. 



Last summer the Forestry Heading room, together with the small class- 

 room north of that, were lifted uj) for our lem])orary use as a physics 

 lecture room. I wish to take this oi»portunity to express my apprecia- 

 tion to Professor Chittenden of the Forestry department, for his kind- 

 ness in sacrificing the rooms we now occupy temporarily in the Forestry 

 Building. 



Apparatus of the combined department, saved from the fire, was in- 

 ventoried at |11,000, of which the Department of I'hysics received 

 |2,000 worth of the same. This meagre equipment, however has been 

 added to during the year to the extent thai tlie de])artment now has a 

 fair working equipment. 



In organizing and planning our work this year we consulted freely 

 with the other related dei)ariments thereby trying to correlate the 

 physics work more closely with that of the other departnuMits, and at 

 the same time present the fundamentals. 



