DEPARTMENT REPORTS 



69 



Class trork. — Continued. 



liECOMMK.NDATlOXS. 



At the tinio of luakino- tliis report the Board of Agriculture has author- 

 ized the ai»i)<)iiitinent of another instructor in this de])artinent for the 

 eoniing year. This action is much a}»iu-eciated and will no doubt simplify 

 the problem of class subdivision. However, it hardly needs to be pointed 

 out that for the greatest efficiency of our teaching force there must be as 

 many class-rooms as there are instructors. At present there are avail- 

 able for our purposes only four class-rooms. Five will be needed next 

 year. 



I would like to rej)eat a recommendation which has appeared in several 

 of my annual i-eports. It is that tlu're be ju-ovidcd a room in which 

 we could store our instrumental etjuiiunent, and which could also be 

 used as an experimental laboratory where the adjustment and construc- 

 tion of instruments could be studied. Such a place would be especially 

 valuiible in wet weathei' when field work in surveying is not possible. 

 With our present lack of even an adjusting pier indoors, on rainy days 

 we must excuse the classes in tield work and much time is lost that might 

 be turned to good account if we had a laboratory under roof. Besides, 

 it is neither convenient nor economical to make the department office 

 also the general store-room and instrument depository, as it is now. 



