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with the other Professors. I ask your attention in this regard to the papers of Professors Crawford and Bicker. The request of Prof. Allen was laid over by you to the present meeting. In making these requests, I do not forget the embarrassments under which you labor for the want of funds, nor do the Faculty wish to crowd unduly their claims upon your attention. They ask that their cases shall be justly considered and that such measures shall be taken as may, at the earliest day, meet their rightful expectations. I ought to «ay that some of them have refused larger salaries elsewhere, out of lore for the University here, and have thus established a stronger claim on your generous regard. I shall take the liberty, in another paragraph, to call your attention to a feasible plan for increasing our income.

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NEW APPOINTMENTS ASKED.

1. I have heretofore asked the early filling of another chair in the College of Engineering. After a careful consultation with the professors in that College, it is believed that the present wants of the College will be best met by the appointment of an instructor in right-line drawing. In case you conclude to fill the place, I am prepared to nominate to you as a suitable candidate, Mr. Charles Hildebrand, formerly of the Sheffield School, and now in Germany. 2. I recommend the appointment of Henry M. Beardsley, as assistant in the Chemical Laboratory for the coming year, in place of W. D. Eudy, who is to leave, and with the same salary now paid Mr. Rudy. 3. The continuous employment of George A. Wild, as Curator and Taxidermist for the coming year, is deemed desirable. Mr. Wild has also done work in the preparatory •classes, and has been paid in part from that fund. The diminished State appropriations for ihe collections will require that his salary, after this year, shall be provided for from the general fund.

COLLEGE OF ENGINEEBING.

1. You will be gratified to see from the report of Prof. Peabody, that the shop practice classes in mechanical engineering, are larger than in any former term. This success has made important some changes in the shop, which Prof. Peabody has detailed in his report and to which I ask your favorable attention. Plans are submitted by him for the enlargement of the foundry, the blacksmith shop and the lumber sheds. 2. Mr. Baker, of the School of Civil Engineering, asks for the purchase of an additional «hain for the field classes. The cost will be $15. It seems necessary. 3. Prof. Bicker, Dean of the College of Engineering, asks that the northeast corner hasement room be allowed that College as a laboratory for copying work, and that an appropriation of $30 be made for a sink and other fixtures. The room has been used as a store i oom, and can be spared for this purpose. Prof. Bicker also asks authority for Mr. Baker to purchase, from the money received for regulation paper, a new supply of paper. 4. Prof. Bicker asks for his school, that of Architecture, $100 from the State appropriation for the shops for additional tools for the use of the shop practice classes. He also asks for the employment of Mr. Spencer, now in the shop, as foreman of the wood working shop for the coming year.

PHYSICAL LABOEATOEY.

Plans are hereby submitted for the changes in the Physical Laboratory, recommended in my report last March. These changes will cost $300 or $350, but they are so important to the work of this department that they ought to be made without hesitation. They will give to our Physical Laboratory room, more commensurate with its importance. I ask also that Prof. Peabody be authorized to expend the small balance of the former State appropriation and what is necessary of the new appropriation for the repairs of apparatus and the purchase of such new apparatus as may be needed for the coming year.

CHEMICAL LABOEATOEY.

1. Our new Laboratory, with its spacious rooms and improved facilities, has added greatly to the volume as well as to the value of our work in this branch. More students have worked in the laboratory and more work has been done by each student. The Professor asks for two additional desks, affording sixteen additional working places for students in the Quantitative Laboratory. Cost, $300. Prof. Weber asks also for the specimen case, heretofore mentioned to you,-for the large recitation room. The cost is estimated at $150 The usual apppropriation for the purchase of chemicals and desk apparatus is also asked for. Amount required, $497.65.

SCHOOL OF HOETICULTUEE.

1. Prof. Burrill's report communicates interesting information concerning this department, and asks for liberty to change the walk west of main building to gate. I think the change desirab e, but plank better than gravel, as many students enter by that walk, and the gravel is not as clean, especially in winter. 2. He asks also for a connection to be made with the tank in the main building, for water supply for the greenhouse. If the water closets be removed, as contemplated, and the new ones be earth closets, the tanks may afford the supply asked, but not otherwise.