DEPARTMENT REP.JRTS. 



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REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY. 



President J. L. Snyder: 



I hand you this my report for the year ending June 30, 1905. A sum- 

 mar}' of the classes and number of students receiving instruction is as fol- 

 lows : 



Class. 



Seniors, women 



Seniors, agricultural and forestry. 



Seniors, agricultural .'. 



Juniors, agricultural and others.. 



Juniors, forestry 



Juniors, agricultural 



Sophomores, agricultural 



Sophomores, women 



Sophomores, agricultural 



Sophomores, women 



Freshmen, agricultural 



Freslimen, women 



Freshmen, agricultural 



Freshmen, women 



Sub-freshmen 



Sub-freshmen 



Short course 



Short course 



Total. 



Subject. 



Plant ph.vsiology. . 

 Plant physiology. . , 



Parasitic fungi 



Grasses and weeds. 

 Wood technology.., 

 Trees and shrubs.. , 



Histology 



Trees and shrubs... 



Ecologj' 



Systematic 



Fruits and seeds. . 

 Fruits and seeds. . 



Systematic : 



Histology 



Beginning 



Beginning 



Beginning 



Beginning 



Term. 



Fall.... 

 Spring.. 

 Fall... . 

 Winter. 

 Winter. 

 Spring.. 

 Winter. 

 Spring.. 

 Spring.. 

 Spring.. 

 Fall.... 

 Fall... . 

 Spring., 

 sirring. . 

 Fall. . . . 

 Spring. . 

 Winter. 

 Winter. 



Hours 



per 

 week.* 



6 



6 



9 



4 



8 



2.5 



9 



2.5 



3 



3 



4.5 



4.5 



3 



7 



2 



2 



2.5 



1.7 



Stu- 

 dents 

 enrolled. 



9 



8 



19 



14 



2 



5 



49 



26 



55 



25 



71 



47 



60 



26 



6 



58 



10 



76 



566 



THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION AT ST. LOUIS. 



After considerable correspondence, I sent for the exhibit of colleges of 

 agriculture and mechanic arts and experiment stations the following items: 



1. A s^dlabus of our teaching in botany. 



2. Six charts showing in variety our method of exhibiting grasses, weeds, 

 and the like. 



3. Four jars of seeds of weeds, showing our plan of exhibition. 



4. A number of photographs, about 35. 



The space for the exhibit was very limited, and although I sent but ver\^ 

 little material, such as they accepted, yet there was not room to display 

 all that I forwarded. Some photographs were sent to the U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Farmer's Institutes. 



THE BOTANIC GAEDEN. 



In 1870, when the present professor of botany began his work at ]\I. A. 

 C, he set to planning, in a modest way, and in the spring of 1877. 27 years 

 ago. without any endowment, moved a few wild plants from neighboring 

 fields, woods, and bogs, and set them on the sloping bank and the low land 

 northwest of the present greenhouse. 



