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elective. In addition, there were 41 enrolled for the short course lec- 

 tures on Plant Diseases. 



During the past year, the large collection of logs and tree sections 

 stored in the hallway of the old part of the building and concerning 

 which I reported last year, has been turned over to the Forestry de- 

 partment so that this danger from fire has been removed. This has per- 

 mitted us to use the large basement hallway for storage of specimens 

 for class use and to fit up part of the northeast basement room as a 

 seed laboratory and part as a store room for suppplies and tool shop. 



In my last report, I mentioned the very crowded condition of the 

 Herbarium and called attention to the advisability of extending it. I 

 would recommend that a competent person be assigned to investigate 

 the possibility of providing the room adjacent to the Herbarium with 

 steel and cement fireproof ceiling similar to that in the Herbarium, since 

 I do not wish to risk placing a valuable collection in a room that is 

 not fairly fireproof. 



With the appointment of Mr. Uphof to take charge of the Botanical 

 Garden and Herbarium, we have gained a valuable aid. The Botani- 

 cal Garden is now, in spite of the damage done by the flood this spring, 

 in better condition than for years. The plants, many of which in the 

 course of the past few j^ears, had become wrongly labeled, are being 

 correctly identified. Mr. Uphof has collected seeds of all the plants 

 of which we have correct names and we hope to exchange seeds Avith 

 other Botanical Gardens this fall. This spring, we obtained seeds and 

 plants of several hundred species representing some of the most im- 

 portant families of the temperate region. The grass garden was, futher- 

 more, considerably extended and the grasses reset since they had become 

 badly mixed and crowded. An attempt was made to extend the weed 

 garden but, owing to the poorness of the soil, without the best success. 

 However, this will be remedied this fall. Mr. Uphof has also collected 

 many plants native to this vicinity, many of which had formerly been 

 in the Botanical Garden but w^hich, in the past few years, had died 

 out. These have been set out. We expect to continue to add Michigan 

 plants to the garden as fast as they can be cared for so that in fact 

 as well as in theory, we may have a representative collection of Michi- 

 gan plants. Mr. Uphof has also been intrusted with the rearrangement 

 of the plants in the Herbarium, arranging them according to the more 

 modern botanical system, as well as separating the Michigan plants 

 from the others. 



By action of the Advisory Board of the Geological Survey of Michi- 

 gan, all plant collections made under the direction of this survey, will 

 be deposited, hereafter, in the Herbarium of the Botanical department 

 of this college, subject to recall should it be deemed necessary. Already 

 one such collection has been received and will soon be available for use. 

 Others are expected next winter as the result of the activities of col- 

 lectors this summer. 



The Herbarium has continued to receive the standard sets of certain 

 fungi and algae in addition to material obtained by collection in this 

 vicinit3\ I plan to spend a small amount of money in having collec- 

 tions made within this state this summer, collecting both specimens 

 for the Herbarium and live plants for the Botanical Garden. 



There have been added to the equipment of the laboratory a number 



