lect and preserve the histories taken of the patients. All this means increased efficiency in the administration of the dispensary.

The faculty of the College has been stimulated and encouraged by the sympathetic interest of the generous Founder whose benefactions continue unabated.

In the Ithaca division of the Medical College the method of concentrated study went into effect. In the first term of the first year the student's work was restricted to anatomy, chemistry, and physics; and in the second term to histology and embryology, physiology, and chemistry. In the second year the number of subjects is greater, though it is only four in the first term. Apart from this new arrangement of studies the work of the year has gone on as usual. In the departments of physiology and histology and embryology, separate courses have been organized and given to students in arts and sciences.

(4) In the State Veterinary College, the requirements for admission were doubled for the class entering in September, 1905. Naturally there was a reduction in numbers, all the more marked in consequence of the rush of 1903 and 1904 for admission on the basis of the lower requirement. But the total number of students (88) is still larger than ever before, excepting in the year 1904-1905. And, of course, the entering classes on the higher basis will during the next few years reach their former proportions. Meantime it is important for the State that the new requirements for the veterinary degree should not be lowered. As Director Law truly observes in his report (Appendix VII.):

"The better and more thorough education, though a transient deterrent to the youth who aims mainly at a cheap diploma and an easy entrance on a lucrative living, is that which is alone compatible with the increasing breadth and depth of the science and literature, and which will bring to the live stock industry the medical help to which it is entitled."

(5) The buildings in the course of erection for the

New York State College of Agriculture, for which the Legislature of 1904 appropriated $250,000, are not yet completed, but the dairy building is approaching completion.

The new agricultural buildings comprise four members the main building, the dairy building, the agronomy building, and the animal husbandry building, the first three of which are connected by loggias which provide passageways from building to building on three floors. The main building contains on the first floor offices, reading rooms and an auditorium; on the second floor rooms devoted to the horticultural department; on the third floor the laboratories and class-rooms in entomology and invertebrate zoology, and on the fourth floor offices and photographic rooms. The basement of this building is occupied by mailing rooms and laboratories. The dairy building, the agronomy building, and the animal husbandry building now contain ample class and office room for the use of their several departments.

For the annual maintenance of the College an item of $100,000 was put in the State Appropriation Bill, which contains the appropriation for the executive, legislative and judicial departments of the State and for established State institutions. The terms of the clause are as follows:

"For the State college of agriculture at Cornell University for the promotion of agricultural knowledge throughout the State as provided by chapter four hundred and thirty of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and for the maintenance, equipment and necessary material to conduct the college of agriculture, one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000), payable to the treasurer of Cornell University on the warrant of the comptroller."

Under the Act of Congress, known as the Adams Bill, approved by President Roosevelt on March 16th, and the subsequent action of the Legislature of the State of New York, Cornell University will receive for its Federal Experiment Station an addition to the present annual appropriation ($13,500) of $5,000, which will be increased annually

for five years, when it will reach $13,500, making in all $27,000. This money is to be used only for experiment and investigation.

The legislature of New York also passed an act providing for the administration of the College of Agriculture at Cornell University. The act was modeled after the act providing for the administration of the State Veterinary College, which was approved by Governor Black, May 22nd, 1897. The primary object of the College is to increase the productiveness and profitableness of farming. It is authorized, for the attainment of that end, to give instruction, to conduct research, and to disseminate agricultural knowledge throughout the State by publications, lectures, demonstrations, "and in such other ways as may be deemed advisable." The entire control of the College is vested in the Board of Trustees of Cornell University. But it is specifically provided that "said university shall receive no income, profit or compensation therefor, but all moneys received from state appropriations for the said college of agriculture or derived from other sources in the course of the administration thereof, shall be credited by said university to a separate fund, and shall be used exclusively for said New York State College of Agriculture."

The generous action of the State imposes a weighty responsibility on Cornell University. Fortunately the Trustees and President have already had experience in the administration of such a college, and through the work of an efficient, loyal, and enthusiastic Director and Faculty they hope to fulfill the large expectations which the people of the State now entertain in regard to the State College of Agriculture.

As heretofore the work will be three-fold: teaching, research, and extension work throughout the State. But with enlarged state and federal appropriations, supplemented by contributions from the treasury of Cornell

University not less than those heretofore made, all lines of work can be developed and greatly improved. The first step has been to differentiate more completely the three fields of work. And the research work, founded on Federal funds, is now completely set off as an entity by itself with its own staff, and the men who are engaged in this work will not be called on to teach university classes or to do extension work.

Six scholarships have been provided for the College by the state grange, one by the Stafford grange of Genesee county and one by Mr. Harrison L. Beatty, of Bainbridge, Chenango county. These generous provisions for students are greatly appreciated by the Trustees of the University and the Faculty of the College.

The attendance at the College in 1905-1906 was as 128 regularly enrolled students, 102 special students, and 251 winter-course students. In the extension work nearly 27,000 readers were enrolled in the farmers' and farmers' wives' reading-courses, over 25,000 children in the junior naturalists' clubs, and 849 teachers in correspondence on nature study. In co-operative experiments conducted by the departments of the College and farmers of the State, the department of agronomy takes the lead with 501 experiments on 1,150 experimental plats in 45 counties with the aid of about 400 experimenters.

Experiment station bulletins are issued from both the federal and the state funds. In the year ending June 30th, 1906, ten bulletins were published.

In addition to the buildings which the State is now providing, the College is in need of new barns and also of more land and of a large addition to the live stock.

(6) In the College of Architecture the attendance increased from 61 in 1904-1905 to 81 in 1905-1906. Students have been stimulated by having their work entered in

the competition conducted by the Society of Beaux Arts Architects, in which they were remarkably successful, winning no fewer than seven of the medals offered by the society. In the annual exhibition of the other architectural societies, the students' productions have also been well received and well placed, and they have also elicited gratifying professional comment.

As elsewhere noted (page 10), Mr. Jean Hébrard, a distinguished young Frenchman of the École des Beaux Arts, has been secured to take the chair vacated by Professor Prévot, who abandons teaching to devote himself to the active practice of his profession in the City of New York. New quarters have been assigned to the College, which, in the words of Professor Martin, "are much more spacious and better lighted than the College has ever had in the past." These comprise the two upper stories of White Hall and the upper story of Franklin Hall. These top floors are admirably adapted to meet the needs of the classes in drafting and free hand drawing and of the life class.

(7) The great event of the year in the College of Civil Engineering was the appointment of a new Director. Professor Crandall has been acting head of the College since the death of Director Fuertes; and Trustees, President, and Faculty highly appreciate the faithful and self-sacrificing manner in which he has discharged the duties of a difficult position.

The new Director is Mr. Eugene Elwin Haskell, whose record as a scientist and practical engineer will be found in an earlier section of the Report (page 6). He brings to the College tested administrative ability, large experience in training young engineers, and an established reputation as a scientific and practical engineer. His chair is that of experimental hydraulics. This branch of engineering is one in which, owing to recent changes in the Faculty, a