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11. Faculty meetings and instructors' meetings. 



12. Committee work on faculty committees. 



13. Direction of affairs of co-operative store. 



14. Adjustment and care of instrumental equipment. 



15. Surveys on College premises. 



16. Drawing maps of drains, sewers, steam and water lines, etc. 



17. Keeping set of books and record cards. 



18. Conferences with and help to individual students. 



19. Examinations during last week of term. 



20. Repairing instruments, making leveling rods and directing repairs 

 in instrument room, class rooms and office. 



It will be seen that assignment to duty in any class entails some work 

 for the instructor under each of the items 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 17, 18 and 19. If 

 the study be a technical one, item 3 must be added. Special examina- 

 tions, committee work and surveys are largely relegated to Saturdays, 

 some committee work to the evenings. During the year. Professor 

 Babcock gave much of his time to the affairs of the co-operative store, 

 acting as president of the organization in charge of .that institution. 



EQUIPMENT. 



The expenditures of the fiscal year for supplies, instruments, etc., 

 purchased for the department aggregate |184.74. Of this amount $50 was 

 specially apportioned and used for preparing tracings and blue-prints of 

 maps on file in my office, which copies are intended to serve the purpose 

 of guides for the architect, engineer and others in planning improve- 

 ments about the College. 



The inventory of property belonging to this department, including 

 instrumental equipment, observatory, office and class room furniture, 

 shows an aggregate value on June 3(1 of |4,039.93 against $3,974.03 for 

 last year. 



SURVEYS, ETC. 



In the summer of 1898 I completed three copies of the plat of College 

 Delta, and filed them as required by law. Then steam lines to College 

 Hall and the chemical laboratory were staken out and graded, as were 

 also some minor extensions of the steam lines to the botanical laboratory 

 and the library. A system of sewers for the Delta was designed and laid 

 out. Several other surveys of Water and sewer pipe lines have been made, 

 but none of any great importance. Besides these surveys of new work, 

 we have done considerable mapping of old survey notes, adding new 

 measurements when necessary. 



Respectfully submitted. 



H. K. VEDDER, 

 Professor of Mathematics and Civil Engineering. 

 Agricultural College, Mich., 

 June 30, 1899. 

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