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during the same term. The classes met at different times and the lee 

 tures varied somewhat according to the requirements of the students. 



Respectfully submitted, 



GEORGE A. WATERMAN, 



Professor of Veterinary Science. 



Agricultural (College, Mich, 

 June :i(), 11)04. 



CHEMICAL DEPARTMENT. 



President J. L. Snyder: 



The College year of 1903-4 brought to the Chemical Department the 

 largest amount of work which it has had to do any time within its his- 

 tory. The laboratory, which was originally constructed for the care 

 and instruction of classes not exceeding fifty in number, must be con- 

 sidered yery inadequate to provide economically for the instruction of 

 classes numbering fiom one hundred to one hundred and fifty. The 

 work done, however, I think has been of a grade which makes it com- 

 parable with the work done by students in previous years and in smaller 

 classes, but it has been accomplished only by the exi)enditure of a great 

 amount of energy and under serious disadvantages so far as economy 

 of labor is concerned. The Chemical Department needs now the entire 

 space afforded by the Chemical and Physical building and immediate 

 steps should be taken to provide a proper laboratory for the Physical 

 Department in order that their work, as well as our own, may not be 

 l)ei'formed at such a great disadvantage. 



As an example of the crowded conditions under Avhicli we are obliged 

 to work in our laboratory space, I wish to call your attention to the 

 fact that during the Winter Term the main analytical room, which 

 provides space for forty-eight students to work at once, is occupied con- 

 stantly to its full capacity from 8:00 a. m. to 12:00 a. m. and from 

 1:00 p. m. to 5:00 p. m. Such an uninterrupted use of the room is both 

 a hindrance to the student and a source of ill health to the instructors. 

 Also in order to accommodate the large number of mechanical students 

 in mineralogy during the Winter Term we were obliged to stage over 

 ihe back half of the lecture room and fit the space thus provided for 

 the accommodation of forty students. In this way only were we able to 

 take care of the class in two divisions. The health of our students and 

 our instructional force demands that adequate provisions be made at 

 the earliest j>ossible moment for greater laboratory space. 



The following schedule shows the number of students who have re- 

 ceived instruction during the year just closed: 



