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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1886
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163 alone I have anything to do directly), and should be maintained in their interest, I should be glad to see diverging elective courses arranged for the last one or two years, leading towards medicine, towards the natural history specialties, and towards biological teaching. The special features of these courses w7ould consist almost wholly of laboratory practice and technical reading—like the special course in chemistry—and would consequently involve little or no additional teaching force. Respectfully submitted, S. A. FORBES, Professor of Zoology and Entomology*. CHEMISTRY. PROFESSOR WJLLTAM MCMURTRY, DR. E. M., PH. D., University of Illinois.. Regent: : In accordance with your request, I have the honor to submit the following report of the condition of the department under my charge: The number of students in chemistry has been scarcely as great as in previous years, but the work accomplished by the classes has been executed with fidelity and enthusiasm, and in point of quantity has been beyond the standard hitherto attained. Several changes have been made in the course of study prescribed, which in practice have proven to be of advantage to all concerned. In the first place, the course of lectures in elementary and applied inorganic chemistry has been supplemented by a course of experiments in the laboratory illustrative of the principles treated of in the lectureroom, giving to each student an opportunity to make for himself nearly all the experiments usually made in the lecture-room before the class. This has had the effect of stimulating greater interest in the work, familiarizing the student with the use of apparatus, and with the general characteristics of chemical substances, and more thoroughly fixing in mind the facts with w7hich they have to deal. This influence has manifested itself in the work of the present term in the more rapid progress the class has been able to make in the advanced work. It has made necessary the purchase of additional apparatus, but this we firmly believe is more than compensated for in the added advantage gained, while the cost will be ultimately met by continued use. In the advanced work of quantitative analysis similar satisfactory progress has been made. All the students, without exception, have shown very commendable zeal and industry in their work, with corresponding results. Modifications in the course have proven of advantage here also, and have resulted in materially increased advancement in the students. I can testify to a high degree of satisfaction on account of the hearty way in which they have fallen in with the plans projected, and the manner in which they have carried PEABODY, DEAR SIR S. H.
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