HUNTER: DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY. 7 



1899. — Assistant Professor Hunter published an account of his work in 

 western Kansas in the bulletin entitled "Alfallfa, grasshoppers, bees; 

 their relationships." Part II of the Coccidas of Kansas appeared this 

 year. In the report of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture was 

 published an article on the fertilization of the alfalfa blossom by bees, 

 an important note for growers of alfalfa. "The nurseryman and the 

 entomologist" was given before the American Asociation of Nursery- 

 men. "Entomological legislation in the interests of horticulture" — 

 Transactions Kansas State Horticultural Society. 



This year shows the broadening of the field of the work of the 

 department among the nurserjrmen of the state. The governor, at 

 request of Kansas nurserymen, appointed S. J. Hunter state inspector 

 of nurseries. This appointment was continued until 1907. 

 1900. — The third part of Coccidae of Kansas, by S. J. Hunter, was pub- 

 lished in Kansas University Quarterly, vol. IX, No. 2. 



"Alfalfa culture and insect life" appeared in the Kansas State 

 Board of Agriculture report. 



"Some entomological problems in horticulture," by S. J. Hunter, 

 was published in the report of the Colorado State Board of Horti- 

 culture, vol. XI. 



An article on spraying was given in the report of the Kansas State 

 Board of Horticulture. 

 1901. — Doctor Snow returns to his old title, professor of natural history 

 and director of the museum. 



The fourth part of the Coccidae of Kansas appeared in the Kansas 

 University Quarterly, vol. X. 



An article on selection, natural and artificial, was published in the 

 Western Fruit Grower for October of this year. 



The American Journal of Physiology published the results of Pro- 

 fessor Hunter's summer study of sea urchin eggs, at Woods Hole, 

 Mass. 



Marguerite E. Wise instructor in botany and entomology. 



Prof. S. J. Hunter becomes head of the department of entomology 

 at the University. 

 1902. — Doctor Snow's title becomes professor of organic evolution, sys- 

 tematic entomology and meteorology. 



Professor Hunter published a textbook dealing with the insect 

 fauna of Kansas. 



Mr. E. S. Tucker was appointed museum assistant in systematic 

 entomology. 

 1903. — The various papers on the Coccidse of Kansas were brought to- 

 gether as a textbook for use in identification of the scale insects. 



Results of further biological investigations of Professor Hunter 

 were published in the Biological Bulletin, vol. V, No. 3. 

 1904. — C. E. Sanborn, an advanced student in the department, published 

 a paper on Kansas plant lice. 



Another student a't this time, Mr. W. J. Meek, published a paper 

 on the structure of some insects, in the Kansas University Science 

 Bulletin, vol. II. 



