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much of this work has been done. We have made many plans for 

 the improvement of small school grounds, but have not, as yet, 

 seen to their execution, which is really the most important side of 

 the matter. This next year we hope to have one representative 

 school in each county of the state enter into an arrangement 

 whereby we make for them a plan showing a well-organized and 

 attractive arrangement for their surroundings, and they promise to 

 see to its execution. Further extension work should be conducted 

 through the Grange, and possibly occasional lectures might be 

 given on domestic and civic improvement. In the past year, such 

 lectures were given in Watertown, Ogdensburg, Canton, Depew, 

 and Buffalo, together with talks, lectures, and discussions at St. 

 Lawrence University, and at the Grange meeting at Burke, New 

 York. Representatives will be sent to many of the Grange meetings 

 during the coming year, to carry on this work for a better under- 

 standing of good surroundings. The above talks are well illustrated 

 by slides. This work is done largely in collaboration with the Ex- 

 tension Office of the College. 



III. EQUIPMENT. 



As to equipment, there is little to say, our major requirements 

 being fairly well met. Last year's allowance was spent largely for 

 the current expenses, cataloguing, additional lantern slides, and 

 such other incidentals as were necessary. Many good lantern slides 

 were added to our collction, and we now have one of the best 

 collections of this sort in the College. Considerable excellent and 

 necessary cataloguing has been done in connection with the slides 

 and we now have a complete card index of all slides together with 

 a duplicate set of illustrations of them. Many landscape plans have 

 been added to our collection, which are used constantly as exam- 

 ples, good and bad, in our teaching work. They have been collected 

 from various sources, and many others are promised us for the 

 coming year. A complete catalogue will have to be made of them, 

 as well. Our main effort in equipment this year will be toward 

 getting together a good collection of photographs, illustrating not 

 only the masterpieces of landscape design, but modern work in its 

 finished and construction stages. 



Much to our regret, it will probably be necessary for us to give 

 up the space we have so long occupied in the College of Architec- 

 ture, owing to the very crowded condition there and our necessary 

 expansion. This will result in our probable occupation of the lim- 



