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play of most of these. The Broas collection of Michigan birds and 

 the Bullock collection of Chilian birds and mammals have excited much 

 interest, but both collections should be better displayed, especially the 

 Broas collection, of which less than one-quarter is now on exhibition. 

 During the coming year it is intended to provide the entire zoological and 

 mineralogical collections of the museum with printed labels of uniform 

 size and appearance, a plan which will increase the attractiveness and 

 eflficiency of the museum very greatly. As stated in previous reports, 

 ojie of the strongest needs of the department, and in my opinion of 

 the college, is a new and spacious building which shall accommodate 

 the entire natural history collections and at the same time provide lec- 

 ture rooms, recitation rooms and laboratories for all the classes which 

 fall to this department and which are now very inadequately provided 

 for. With such a building our general museum might easily rank as 

 the first in the state. 



Respectfullv submitted, 



WALTER B. BARROWS, 

 Prof, of Zoology and Physiology, and 

 Curator of General Museum. 

 East Lansing, Mich., June 30, 1911. 



REPORT OF THE DEPARTMEiNT OF ENGLISH AND MODERN 



LANGUAGES. 



President J. L. Snyder: 



Dear Sir: — In the Department of English and Modem Languages 

 during the year 1910-1911 the enrollment of students was as follows: 



English. German. French. Total. 



Fall 1,498 136 39 1,673 



Winter 1,491 179 35 1,705 



Spring 1,085 138 28 1,251 



The average enrollment per term has been 1,543 against 1,032 during 

 the preceding year. 



The average cost of instruction per student in the department dur- 

 ing the vear has been |7.55. or |.00 more than during the year 1909- 

 1910. 



The work of the department during the year has been done by one 

 professor, one assistant professor, and ten instructors. Five of the in- 

 structors, Messrs. Mayne, Pyke, Penney, Fischer and VonTungeln, came 

 to us at the beginning of the year, taking places made vacant by 

 the resignation of Messrs. Sloat, Williamson, Wuebker, Stott and Fish. 

 Four of the instructors Avho left us a year ago went to places paying 

 them larger salaries than we paid Ihem; one man almost doubling his 

 salary. The fifth man went to a university to continue his graduate 

 work. The avei-age salarv paid to instructors during the ])resent year 

 has been |825.00,^ or |40.'00 more than during the year 1909-1910. 



