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informed that in some other of the State buildings there are 

 attempts at entomological collections ; but they escaped me and 

 are not of any extent. 



In the Forestry building there are a number of collections illus- 

 trating insects injurious to trees. Of those seen by me, that in 

 the West Virginia section was by all odds the best, and Mr. Hop- 

 kins has made a very creditable showing indeed. 



Michigan has a few boxes of insects, but these are very far in- 

 ferior to the others. I am informed that one other of the States 

 has an exhibit in this building; but I did not see it. 



In the German section there are four boxes illustrating rather 

 a method of preparing insects of this description than any con- 

 siderable portion of the insects themselves. 



Russia, on the contrary, shows a very full series of Forestry 

 insects, very respectfully prepared; but affording nothing new or 

 suggestive as to methods of arrangement or of preservation. 



In the " Liberal Arts" building, Japan has a very large lot of 

 boxes containg insects from central Japan, very well mounted as 

 a whole, and systematically arranged, but without names, and 

 with no economic interest. In the educational exhibit in this same 

 building, Japan shows other specimens of insects illustrating the 

 work done in some of her schools. Germany has in this same 

 department a series of boxes with very well prepared and very 

 well mounted specimens, remarkable for the number of blown 

 larvae. 



Oregon has, as part of its educational exhibit, a battered Cecro- 

 pia moth, which very well illustrates the character of the speci- 

 mens preserved by the ordinary school-boy. 



Michigan shows a series of very well-prepared boxes in her 

 educational exhibit, and if these boxes could be taken as showing 

 the average work of the students in the Agricultural College, it 

 would deserve nothing but the highest possible praise. Unfor- 

 tunately, however, the collection is obviously in its greater por- 

 tion the work of special students, the larger part prepared by 

 Mr. Davis, who is a professional. The exhibit therefore fails 

 entirely in what should be its purpose; that is, to show the work 

 actually done by the students in the ordinary course of their 

 studies. If it had shown the insects as prepared by the students, 

 in the boxes in which they are prepared, it would have had a 

 distinct educational value; as it is, it simply illustrates how well 



