56 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



The following text-books have been used in our classes during the year: 

 Beman & Smith's Higher Arithmetic for classes in mensuration; Beman 

 & Smith's Academic Algebra for all beginning classes formed by women 

 and agricultural students; Van Velzer & Shchter's University Algebra for 

 all engineering students; Wentworth's Geometry; Ashton & Marsh's Trig- 

 onometry; Tanner & Allen's Analytic Geometry; Taylor's Calculus; Hodg- 

 man's Surveying; Johnson's Surv-eying for all classes in higher surveying; 

 Church's Mechanics; Merriman & Jacoby's Graphic Statics; Merriman & 

 Jacoby's Bridge Stresses: Merriman & Jacoby's Bridge Design; Allen's 

 Railroad Curves and Earthwork; Baker's Masonry Construction; Murray's 

 Differential Calculus; Baker's Roads and Pavements. 



The total expenditure by the department during the year for all pur- 

 poses has been $2,020.46, of which $95 was turned in for special exami- 

 nations. 



Respectfully submitted, 



H. K. VEDDER, 

 Professor of Mathematics and Civil Engineering. 

 Agricultural College, Mich., June 30, 1905. 



REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND ELECTRICAL 



ENGINEERING. 



To President J. L. Snyder, Agricultural College Michigan: 



Dear Sir — I have the honor of submitting herewith the following report 

 of the year's work in this department. Through the generous action of 

 the board we have been able to add materially to the equipment of the 

 department, also two additional rooms in the basement of College Hall 

 were fitted up and placed at the disposal of the department. One as a 

 recitation room and the other as a laboratory where the Sub-Freshmen 

 work was carried on during the year. We feel that we have made many 

 improvements over the conditions last j^ear and have not been quite so 

 crowded as last year, j'-et we are looking forward to more permanent quar- 

 ters as soon as they can be provided. We believe the instruction has been 

 very efficient both in the recitation room and in the laboratory. We pro- 

 pose, however, to put the laboratory work on a different basis for the com- 

 ing year which will enable us to use the present laboratory rooms more 

 hours in the day and thus give the effect of having more room. There is 

 a considerable demand on the part of the students for more instruction in 

 electricity, not necessarily Electrical Engineering, and if two more rooms 

 can be fitted up during the summer in the basement of College Hall it will 

 enable us to meet that demand without increasing the amount of appar- 

 atus materially. 



' Total number of students enrolled in the classes for the past year has 

 been 751 as against 723 last year and 429, 1902-3. 



Yours very truly, 



A. R. SAWYER, 

 Professor of Phj'-sics and Electrical Engineering. 

 Agricultural College, Mich., June 30, 1905. 



