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We liave sold several colonies of bees during the season, and have secured a 

 large harvest of honey. 



OUTSIDE WOEK, 



Last fall I prepared a large and complete collection of apicuUural products, 

 instruments, bee plants, bees, etc., for the New Orleans Exposition. 1 

 attended the annual meeting of the State Horticultural Society, Avhere I pre- 

 sented two illustrated papers, both of ■which are published in the annual report 

 of that society. I also lorcscnted a paper before the annual meeting of the 

 State 13oc Keepers' Association, of which body I was elected president. I hiive 

 acted as j)resideut of the lugham County Horticultural Society, which holds 

 monthly meetings. By special invitation I presented an illustrated paper on 

 Economic Entomology before the North American Pomological Society at the 

 Grand Kapids meeting. During our August vacation, I attended the meeting 

 of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at Ann Arbor, 

 which was not only a very enjoyable, but a very profitable occasion. 



DONATIONS TO THE ZOOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT. 



Mifis Helen S. Norton : 



Three specimens lava from Sandwich Islands, and 57 specimens of marine 

 shells. 

 0. H. Judson: 



Twenty-one specimens of fossils from Lucas county, Ohio. 

 Voiselle ct- Larose : 



Two willow Pt.rraigans. 

 A. W. Page: 



One ammonite. 

 W. H. Jes.mp : 



Specimen of partzite. 

 Lieut. J. A. Lock wood : 



Ammonite, 2 baculites, opalized wood, 2 concretions and fossil wood. 

 Jiev. E. Murray : 



Brick of tin. Tin dust. 

 Gates Stannard : 



Kill-deer eggs. 

 A. G. Head purchased : 



Virginia deer and fawn, gray fox, white rabbit and long-tailed duck. 

 Ji. M. Bates : 



Fossil brachiopods, crinoidal stems, spirifer, and fossil coral. 

 Detroit Scientific Association : 



Fifty-seven si^ecimens of native woods. 

 Chas. Smitli : 



Three specimens marble, selenite, five specimens sulphate of iron, three speci- 

 mens iron ore. three specimens talc 'Turkish emery, two specimens tourmaline, 

 hornblende, two specimens garnets in emery, three specimens Chester emery, 

 serpentine, corundum, Turkish emery wheel, corundum emery wheel, brown 

 hematite, three specimens sandstone, stalactite, conglomerate, granite, two 

 specimens Italian marble, three specimens limestone, umber, two speeimens 

 yjottery, quartz, iron concretion. 

 T. A. Stanletj: 



Oast skin of ;i ,snake. 



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