1890-92 - University Archives and Records Center - University of ...

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The number of teachers constituting the teaching staff of Lecturers
and Demonstrators was increased from eight in 1888-89, to ten ¡ n
1891-92, making a total of twenty-two teachers in the department.
Since the session of 1888-89 'here has been a steady increase in the
total number of students in attendance, as may be observed by the
following exhibit:
Total number of students in attendance during the session of 1887-88 . . 57
" " " . " " 1888-89 • • 58
" " "* " " " 1889-90 . . 64
" " " " " 1890-91 . , 70
" " " " " 1891-92 . . 76
" " " " " 1892-93 . . 92
In 1889 a one-story building was erected adjoining the farriery, to
be used as an assembly room by the students, and granolithic and
flagstone pavements were laid around the triangular grass plot of the
courtyard of the department. At the same time the partition between
two small rooms situated east of the main gateway was rekioved, and
the single room thus made converted into an office to be used by the
clerk to the Faculty.
In the same year the Pharmaceutical Laboratory, which occupied
the room directly above the main lecture room, was transferred to the
adjoining room, and the room vacated was converted into a lecture
room. The collections of the Museum, which occupied part of the
room, were not removed, but additional cases were constructed for
their accommodation and better display.
In 1890 a building was erected in the space directly west of the
main gateway to serve as a room for the meeting of the Faculty and
as an office for the Dean.
Much has been done in the past three years toward making a better
roadway for vehicles in the courtyard, removing the embankment,
planting grass and trees, and otherwise improving and beautifying the
grounds.
In-increasing the equipment of apparatus, fifteen Leitz compound
microscopes and four Zentmayer simple microscopes have been purchased,
thus leaving in the possession of the department at the present
writing thirty-three compound microscopes, of which eighteen are
of Zentmayer's manufacture and fifteen of Leitz's manufacture. Of
simple microscopes (Zentmayer's manufacture) the department possesses
twenty-six.
For illustrating the lectures on Physiology the most improved form