hunter: department of entomology. 5 



Agriculture reports a paper on injurious insects from July to Septem- 

 ber; on the chinch bug; on pear blight; and on further injurious in- 

 sects — the Hessian fly, the ivheat-straw worm, and the webworm. 

 1886. — This year the department begins to offer specially adToneed courses 

 in entomology. 



1887. — There appeared in Science an article on the purslane -worm. 



1888. — This year began extended work of inyestigation with the chinch 

 bug; an account of it is given in the report of the Kansas State Board 

 of Agriculture. Another paper on insects injurious to wheat ap- 

 peared in this same report. 



1889. — Work had developed so that a number of departments were estab- 

 lished. Doctor Snow now professor of botany, entomology and 

 meteorology. 



Further reports on the chinch bug were issued in the Board of 

 Agricultural reports; and one on the experiments for the artificial 

 dissemination of a contagious disease among chinch bugs was pub- 

 lished in the Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. 



V. L. Kellogg, assistant professor in the department of entomology, 

 published some notes on bird lice, in the Transactions of the Kansas 

 Academy of Science. 



1890. — Doctor Snow becomes chancellor of the University. 



Two reports on the experiments for the artificial destruction of the 

 chinch bug were published in the reports, and one on the general 

 question of the chinch bug. 



1891. — This year House bill No. 639 was passed, "An act to establish an 

 Experimental Station at the State University of Kansas, to promote 

 and conduct experiments for the destruction of chinch bugs by con- 

 tagion or infection, and making appropriation therefor." 



Director of the Experiment Station of the Unirersity of Kansas 

 was created, and Doctor Snow was elected to this position. 



Papers on insects injuring Kansas wheat, on the results of the ex- 

 periments carried on, and on the contagious diseases of the chinch 

 bug were published in the State Board report, in Insect Life, and in 

 the first annual report of the Experiment Station of the University 

 of Kansas. 



1892. — J. M. Aldrich, a graduate student in the department, published six 

 papers on Diptera. 



Three more papers on the chinch bug and its contagious diseases 

 appeared, one in the second annual report of the Experiment Station, 

 another in Insect Life, and the third in the report of the Kansas 

 State Board of Agriculture. 



With the assistance of V. L. Kellogg, Doctor Snow published a 

 paper on two grain insects, in the bulletin of the department of 

 entomology of the University of Kansas. Later the same year Doctor 

 Snow published another article on the chinch bug in Psyche. 



Assistant Professor V. L. Kellogg published two articles — notes on 

 the comparative anatomy of insects; two on insects injurious to drugs; 



