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I Department 0f Botany. _
PROFESSOR MATHEXVS AND ASSISTANT PROFESSOR GILBERT.
The department occupies commodious and well _
lighted rooms upon the first floor of the new Agricultu- f I
ral building. A
The lecture-room in the front part of the building is
occupied jointly with classes in horticulture, and is .
. equipped with opera chairs, an electric lantern both for `B
ordinary and micro-projection, charts, and other illus-
trative material.
The laboratories are liberally supplied with the best
types of simple and compound microscopes, microtomes,
ovens for paraffin imbedding, apparatus for plant
. physiology, etc.  
The department herbarium contains a fairly com-
, plete representation of the flora of the state with many ‘
exchanges from other states and countries. The
· nucleus of the present collection was due mainly to the , ,
effort of the late Dr. Robert Pete1· who travelled widely .· , `
_ through the state making collections about sixty years -` · A
p ago, and made exchanges with many of the noted
botanists of that period, so that the collection possesses *
considerable historic interest. V
Arrangements are in p1·ogress for the attachment of ‘
a laboratory greenhouse to the rear of the Agricultural `
building during the summer of 1908, and the st1·uc- 4
ture will be of great value to the classes in Botany in the
way of supplying material for class use and for experi-
ments in plant physiology, etc. The older greenhouses
near the Main Building will still continue to furnish
additional material for the varied needs of botanical · - I -
classes. ` A- A