DEPARTMENT REPORTS. 61 



I wish to acknowledge the hearty co-operation and great assistance 

 which • I have received from every member of the laboratory force. 



Respectfully submitted, 



FRANK S. KEDZIE, ' 



Professor of Chemistry. 

 Agricultural College, June 30, 1907. 



REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND ELECTRICAL 



ENGINEERING. 



To the President : 



During the school year of 190G-7 just closed, the work in physics and 

 electrical engineering was carried on by the following instructors and 

 myself: Mr. H. L. Curtis, Mr. E. N. Bates, Mr. W. L. Lodge after 

 the first of October and Mr. C. W. Chapman after the first of January. 



Owing to my extra duties in charge of the mechanical department, 

 the men in the department were pretty busy and Mr. Chapman was 

 engaged to begin the first of January. The work was carried on as 

 well as could be expected under the exceedingly cramped conditions. 

 During the fall term, as has been the custom for the last three years, 

 a number of seniors in the engineering course elected to take some 

 electrical work in place of machine shop which class I carried in addi- 

 tion to the other duties. The same condition will probably exist another 

 year owing to the fact that the new course in electrical engineering- 

 will not reach the senior year until the fall term of 1908. 



A small amount of apparatus was added to the equipment — quite a 

 little being ordered from abroad — but, owing to the inability of the 

 makers to properly standardize the apparatus, it has not been delivered 

 up to the time of the writing of this report although we are expecting 

 it every day and it will be ready for use next year. 



Dui'ing the spring term especially, the department has been particu- 

 larly crowded and every member of the department is eagerly looking 

 forward to the time Avhen we will be able to expand somewhat and have 

 more conveniences under the new conditions. 



Respectfully submitted, 



A. R. SAWYER, 

 Professor of Physics and Elec. Eng. 

 Agricultural College, Mich., June 30, 1907. 



