Engineering and Metallurgy. It also provides a local office for the State Geological Survey.

A large barn for implements and feeding experiments has been constructed at the Experiment Station Farm, which fills a long felt need.

New concrete walks and steps have made "the Hill" easier to climb and more attractive to the eye, and a concrete walk along a large part of the Cumberland Avenue frontage of the property has greatly improved its appearance.

CARNEGIE LIBRARY.

The new library building of the University was donated by Mr. Andrew Carnegie on condition that an amount equal to that given by him-forty thousand dollars-should be provided as an endowment fund for the upkeep of the library. The endowment was furnished by the State of Tennessee, which provided a certificate of indebtedness of the State, bearing five per cent per annum interest. In agreeing to the way in which his condition had been met, Mr. Carnegie expressed pleasure at the increasing liberality of the State toward the University in recent years.

The committee secured as architects, Messrs. Patton and Miller, of Chicago, who have had wide experience in library construction, having planned about eighty libraries, many of which were built with funds donated by Mr. Carnegie. The building is constructed of brick and stone, as shown in the architects' drawing.

The characteristic feature of the library is the large reading room, eighty-six by thirty-five feet, with eighteen foot ceiling. This room is beautifully lighted and ventilated and is entirely unbroken by partitions or columns. It accommodates one hundred and fifty readers at one time. In addition to the reading room, there is a special reading and club room for the faculty, librarian's office, cataloging room, stack room with a capacity of about seventy-five thousand volumes, lecture room, public document room, four seminary rooms, unpacking room, bindery, and appropriate cloak rooms, lavatories, etc.

It is anticipated that the building will be ready for occupancy before the close of the present session.

The acquisition of this splendid building and the reorganiza

tion of the library force will work a revolution in certain phases of the University work.

JOINT MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.

The rapid advance in the ideals and methods of medical education during the past ten years has been most marked, and a type of medical school that was at one time almost universal has now become entirely out of date. Realizing the importance of keeping step with modern progress and the need of greater resources to make this possible, the trustees of the University of Tennessee have made a contract with the trustees of the University of Nashville to combine the two medical schools under their respective charges and have thus brought about the establishment of the greatly strengthened and enlarged "Joint Medical Department."

The Medical Department of the University of Nashville and the University of Tennessee has been formed by the union of two of the oldest medical schools in the South. The Medical Department of the University of Nashville was organized October 11, 1850. It has graduated nearly five thousand physicians and surgeons. The Medical Department of the University of Tennessee was organized in 1876. It has nearly three thousand alumni. The two medical schools were founded by the same men, the names of Doctors J. Berrien Lindsley, Paul F. Eve, Sr., and W. K. Bowling, being prominent in the early history of each.

The University of Nashville and the University of Tennessee are and always have been sister institutions. As colleges, they were both established by the State of Tennessee to carry out the purposes of an Act of Congress, which granted to the State two townships of public lands, which were to be sold and the proceeds applied to "the establishment of two colleges, one in East and one in West Tennessee." Thus arose East Tennessee College and Cumberland College, each based on a previous foundation, Blount College and Davidson Academy, respectively. They have both been always undenominational in character. It is fitting that they should now be united in the service of the State and of humanity.

The union of the medical schools of the Universities of Ten

nessee and of Nashville marks a great forward step in the educational progress of the State. Combining the faculties, the equipments, and the buildings of the two schools, and with the financial backing of both universities, the department is now far stronger than either of the component schools separately, and every year will add to its substantial strength and development. It is the avowed purpose of both universities to co-operate to make a medical school of the best modern model. With this object in view, great stress will be laid on the splendid facilities offered in the fundamental scientific branches, as Physics, Chemistry, Anatomy, Physiology, Microscopy, Bacteriology, etc., which will be taught by trained specialists in perfectly equipped laboratories. For the clinical instructions not only has the department the freest access to the public and other hospitals, but in its own hospital, containing more than seventy beds, unrivalled advantages are offered the student for that practical bedside instruction that is recognized as absolutely essential at the present time.

The second session for the Joint Medical Department is now well advanced and the arrangement has been highly satisfactory. The students have been afforded clincial and other advantages never before possible in this State.

AGRICULTURAL ExperimenT STATION.

The work of the agricultural experiment station connected with the University has gone on most successfully during the past two years. Certain definite lines of investigation have been selected and every effort is bent to get definite results on the problems being investigated. While the questions are of purely scientific nature they are selected largely because of their wide bearing on the economic side of agriculture in our own State. The work of the local station also includes the supervision, analyses, and working out of results of the co-operative experiments in Middle Tennessee and of the operation of the West Tennessee Experiment Station at Jackson. In this way the services of experts and facilities provided by funds received from the national treasury are available for use in connection with the experimental work all over the State, which is a great advantage both from the standpoint of economy and of conformity in methods of investigation and publication of results. The work of our

experiment station has attracted the most favorable attention throughout the civilized world-and it is looked upon by experts as being one of the best organized and best conducted stations in America.

WEST TENNEssee ExperimENT STATION.

This station has, since the submission of our last report, been brought into excellent condition. The buildings and other improvements planned and carried our under the direction of the Commission appointed by the Governor under the Act of 1907, providing for the establishment of this station, have now been substantially completed, and where there was three years ago an unimproved and unproductive tract there is now one of the handsomest farms in the State. The barns and other buildings are of a uniform and pleasing style of architecture, and the general effect is very picturesque and satisfactory. Provision for the support of this station is made by an appropriation in the General Education Bill of an amount of ten thousand dollars per annum. There is opportunity for usefulness of the West Tennessee Station to an extent greater than can be provided for by this limited amount and it is hoped that provision may be soon made for an increase in the amount available from legislative appropriation.

EXTENSION WORK OF THE UNIVERSITY.

The various lines of outside activity of the members of the University faculty which were given in the last biennial report have been continued and extended. In addition to the usual short courses in agriculture for farmers and the summer course in agriculture for teachers which are conducted at Knoxville, there were conducted during the fall and winter of 1909 short courses at Winchester, Cookeville, Jackson, and Dickson. At all of these the attendance was good, reaching at two of the places totals of over one hundred and forty. During the fall and winter of 1910 these courses have been given at Columbia, Jackson, Clarksville, Carthage, and Johnson City. There was a fine attendance at each place. This extension work is done, in cooperation with the Commissioner of Agriculture, by members of the faculty of our College of Agriculture, with the assistance of some outside experts who are brought in for the purpose. It

is a useful form of activity which is in line with the general policy of the University to serve the people. The agricultural faculty have also participated actively in general institute work and have taken an active part in the organization and conduct of the State Fair, at Nashville, the Tri-State Fair at Memphis, and the Appalachian Exposition at Knoxville.

BROWN AYRES,

President.