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Hygiene of the great esteem in which we held your predecessor, Dr. K. S. 

 Shaw, of his fine spirit of helpfulness in all our efforts and lastly of the 

 pledge of our hearty approval of your plans for the College insofar as they 

 have been announced, and of our unqualified support of your efforts to 

 bring those plans to fruition. 



Kespectfullv, 



WAKD GILTNER, 

 Professor of Bacteriology and Hygiene. 

 East Lansing, Michigan, June 30, 1922. 



REPORT OF THE DEI»ARTMENT OF BOTANY. 



President David Friday, 



Michigan Agricultural College. 

 Dear President Friday: 



In accordance with custom, I make the following report for the 

 Botanical Department for the fiscal year ending June 30th, 1922. 



The staff of the department has remained the same as in the ijreceding 

 year, except for the following points : 



Mr. Lionel E. Tisdale, Half-time Graduate Assistant, having completed 

 liis work for th M. S. degree, severed his connection with the College in 

 the summer of 1921 and took a position at Clemson College, South Caro- 

 lina. 



Mr. Henry T. Darlington, Associate Professor of Botany, was granted 

 a leave of absence during the winter term for the purpose of further 

 study at the University of Chicago. 



Dr. R. P. Hibbard, Hesearch Associate in Plant Physiology, was invited 

 by Johns Hopkins University to come to Baltimore and co-operate with 

 the Department of Plant Physiolog}^ at that institution in the study of 

 the salt requirements of the wheat plant. The State Board of Agriculture 

 agreed to enter into this co-operation between the two institutions and 

 autliorized Dr. Hibbard to go to Baltimore for this purpose for the period 

 September 1st to June 30th. During Mr. Hibbard's absence the teaching 

 work in Plant Physiology was carried on by H. C. Young. 



At the request of the Plant Disease Survey of the U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture, Dr. G. H. Coons, Associate Professor of Botany, was per- 

 mitted to go to Washington for the month of January to assist in collat- 

 ing the reports on plant disease occurence throughout the country for 

 the preceding year, and at the same time to look up the literature of cer- 

 tain subjects which have been studied here for several years. 



The past year has seen an increase in the number of students taking 

 botany, due in part to the increase in the total number of students in 

 college, and in part to the fact that certain new courses were offered. 

 The greatest increase came from the requirement that freshmen in the 

 technical series of the Household Economics course take one term of 



