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the publications of the entomological department have been de- 

 voted to Insects Injurious to Fruits, more inquiries having been 

 made of us regarding these insects than regarding all others. 



Plans for the Future. — The additional facilities which will be 

 afforded by the proposed building for the College of Agriculture 

 will enable us to extend still further the entomological work of 

 the Experiment Station. The increased space for museum pur- 

 poses will enable us to greatly extend our exhibition of material 

 illustrating applied entomology. But more important than this, 

 the spacious laboratories, together with the plant-houses attached 

 will afford opportunity for much work in experimental entomology 

 by the advanced students in the College of Agriculture. At 

 present the demand for opportunities for doing this work is 

 greater than the department can supply without interfering with 

 the work of the experiment station force. And we have been 

 obliged to limit the use of the insectary by students to those 

 seniors who are writing theses on subjects of immediate applica- 

 tion to agriculture. It is hoped that in the near future we can 

 offer an extended course on methods of entomological experi- 

 ments, and give all students desiring such work an opportunity to 

 conduct investigations in this field. 



It is hoped that in this way the day will be hastened when the 

 farms of the graduates of our College of Agriculture will become 

 to a certain extent experiment stations. 



The plans of the proposed quarters for the entomological depart- 

 ment are shown on Plates III to V. The principal laboratories 

 are to be on the second floor of the building, and at the north 

 end, as north light is the best for work with a microscope. The 

 experimental work of the department will be carried on in the 

 advanced laboratory and in the plant-houses. Easy access to 

 the plant-houses will be had by means of a staircase indicated on 

 the plans. The museum, in which will be placed the collections 

 of named specimens already described, will also be readily acces- 

 sible, being on the same floor as the laboratories and separated 

 from them only hy a. hall. 



Work of the Year. — It is impracticable to describe in detail in 

 this place the work that has been carried on in the insectary. In 

 general it has consisted of completely or partially tracing out the 

 life histories of certain insects injurious to vegetation, in experi- 

 ments with insecticides, and in the publication of a bulletin on 

 Insects Injurious to Fruits. 



