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lighted rooms of other scientific Department 8. In addition to 

 modern and adequate provision for lighting, there is also urgent 

 need for ventilation in thev overcrowded rooms used for elementary 

 instruction on the second and topmost floors. Appropriate provision 

 for the ventilation and lighting of these laboratories would more- 

 over result in an economy of space, which wottld render possible accom- 

 odation for graduate students in the ihanerogamio Labor stories, at 

 the present ti^.e wholly laoking.lt ie neither to the credit nor 

 the interest of the College, that there should continue to be no 

 workin L . places for graduate students in the laboratories devoted 

 to the study of the higher plants.lt is not surprising that nnder 

 existing conditions, our graduate students should have grown fewer 

 and fewer compared with those of other large universities. Your 

 Committee as well as members of the department of Botany have called 

 attention more than once, to these urgent nee.l3,whi«h should be 

 provided for, if this Department .which in the past has been one 

 of the moot efficient and distinguished Departments of the Univer- 

 sity, is to escape complete eclipse. 



Your Committee, from the estimate of the Inspector of mil- 

 lings and Grounds, have learned that the sum of $6000 expended on 

 the rooms occupied by the Department of Botany in the University 

 ;ruseum,in renovations, improvements and additions to outfit, would 

 suffice as far as material equipment is concerned for the present. 

 Such an expenditure is not large compared with the great impor- 

 tance of the results, which would be aohieved by this disburse- 

 ment, in the improvement of th mental and material condition of 

 the department of 3otanjr.In the opinion of your Committee ,in view 



