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the Executive Committee, the Professors of Chemistry, Agricul.
ture and Botany were to assist in the work of the Station insofar
as such work did not interfere with their proper College duties. 1
After Congress passed the Hatch act in March, 1887, the authori-
ties at once took steps to put the Station on a firmer basis.
The Executive Committee of the College placed the manage- _
ment of the Station in the hands of a Board of Control, consisting
- of the Executive Committee, the President of the College, and
the Director of the Station; the action of the Board of Control to _
be subject to the Executive Committee and the General Board of
Trustees.
Action was taken, looking to the purchase of a farm for ex-
perimental purposes, for the erection of a Station building for of-
fices, laboratories, etc., and for increasing the working force of the
Station, but by a decision of the Comptroller of the Treasury the
funds due under the ope1·ation of the Hatch act did not become
available until the following year, and no great increase of the
working f`o1·ce could at once be made. In June, another Assistant
° Chemist was employed, Mr H. E. Curtis. In the fall a farm of
fo1·ty-eight-and one—half acres was purchased, and in May, 1888,
the contract was let for the Station Building. In June, 1888,
steps were taken for the employment of an agrculturist and an as-
sistant agriculturist, and for procuring the necessary books, appa-
ratus, etc., which would be required as soon as the new quarters
were ready.
In June, 1889 Prof. H. Garman was employed as Entomolo- _
gist and Botanist for the Station, and in the following September
the Station building having been completed during the summer, ‘
was occupied by the several departments of the Station and the
Agricultural, Chemical and Natural History departments of the
College.
EQU I PM E N T .
A As stated above, the erection of a Station building was com- .
menccd in June, 1888, and completed in August, 1890. This ·
building, a plate of which will be found facing page 84 is 70 feet in
length by 5+1 feet in width; it has two stories and a commodious base—
ment, 11 feet from iioor to ceiling. The first floor has eight rooms
occupied by the offices, library, chemical, botanical and entomolo-
gical laboratories of the Station and the Agricultural Department V
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