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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS

LAWRENCE

April 15, 1912.

FOUNDED 1864

Dean Olin Termlin,
University of Kansas,
My dear Professor Ternmlin:-

I am enclosing with this estirates of the needs
of the Zoology department for next year. You will observe that = have asked
for more monev for salaries. I believe that it is imperative that we take
better care of our teachers. it is impossible for men to do their best
work when they are obliged to worry over the means for subsistence. The
sreatly increased cost of living has foreed this consideration upon our
faculty and the werk of tris department is suffering on account of it. I
earnestly hone that yon may find it possible to provide better saleries
for the members of the zoology department. These people have done earnest
and conscientious work for the institution, even spending their summers
in its service,and trey merit whatever consideration the University can
give them. Out of justice to them I should also like to ask that the
administration give them some idea of what they may expect in the way of
advancement. “her have been here long enough now so that their characters
and abilities are known and it will make it much easier for me to carry on
the work of the derartment if their nrospects are settled. They can then
either decide to accent them or look for rlaces elsewhere.

Also I am asking, as usual, for more money for library nurnosese
™he department id doing all in its rower to make itself a true University
department by adding to our knowledge of animal life and activities. This
original work requires, smone other things, sood library facilities. “hese
are lacking and must he supplied if the research work continues. Another
item for which I em again asking money is technical and artist help. The
power of the instructors will be sreatly increased and the instruction
bettered br this tind of rely and I trust that vounmay see your way clear
to provide it. Py your request also I am ineluding the estimates for the
museum, “hich, although in the department of which I am head, I have had
no controlmover.  <hese items are the same as for this vear excert in **s
ease of Mr. Rocklund's salary which I have asked to be raised .100. He
is doing good work and deserves this.

With rerard to the quarters of the department I have to sav, as
T heave on former occasions, that thev are entirely inadecuate to the de-
velopment of real University work. It is impossible to concentrate the
work of anv one denartment in the buildings end so we are obliged to dis-
tribute our. from the basement to the attic. The rooms are not designed
for the kind of work that we do and there are no facilities for much that
should be donee. Unless we wish to be left entirely behind other institutions
ef our class it will be necessary to provide better conditions before longs.
Tf vou desire to consider any matters relating to the denertment more in
detail I should be glad to talk with you or to make further recommendations.

Sincerely vours,