38 DEPARTMENT REPORTS. 



Geo. E. Kedzie, Ouray, Col.: 



8ends seeds of Aquilegia Cserulea to be tested. 

 J. G. Lemmon, San Luis Obispo, Cal.: 



Package of seed of Tyetes Lemmoni. 

 Prof. E. C. White, Cincinjiati, 0.: 



Sends from Peru^ S. A., three lots Indian corn, some Ullinos and seeds of 

 plants. 

 Royal Gardens, Kew, England: 



Keports for 1881, '82, '84. Guide to museum of timber, 1886. Guide to 

 Dicotyledons and Gymnosperms, 1886. 

 W. M. Badcock, New Providence, Union Co., N. J.: 



20 unnamed dried English plants. 

 Botanical Division, United states Department of Agriculture: 



25 packages of seeds of native grasses collected in Colorado. 

 Prof. James Satferlee, Lansing, Mich.: 



7 shingles (shaved pine) that had been laid twenty-eight years in Lansing.. 

 T. Bergy, Proprietor of Caledonia Button Works, Mich., through W. J. 



Meyers, 'S9 : 



Samples of vegetable ivory and forty buttons of the same material. 

 Mrs. M. J. C. Carpenter : 



Collected in Arkansas fruit of gum tree, trumpet creeper and a gall of a 

 rose bush. 

 Frank E. Wood, Hancock, Mich.: 



4 living ferns. 

 United States Agricultural Department, through A. C. Lawrence: 



Samples of blue stem wheat from Erwin, D. T. 

 Israel Wood, Delhi, Mich.: 



Example of fasciation in willow. Galls on burr oak. 



KespectfuUy submitted. 



Sincerely your friend, 



W. J. BEAL, 

 Professor of Botany and Forestry^ 



Agricultural College, June 30, 1887. 



REPORT OF THE PROFESSOR OF ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY. 



President Edwin Willits: 



The following is the report of my department for the past year: 

 In all the years of the college I have never known greater earnest and 

 enthusiasm among the students, nor could students be more courteous and 

 gentlemanly in their conduct and demeanor. Owing largely to your encour- 

 agement, we are able to do more laboratory work, and this kind of study, as 

 it partakes of original research, is very highly appreciated by the students 

 and is sure to receive their best efforts. 



The course of instruction for the past year has been much as in previous 

 years, except that now each student has work in the laboratory through the 

 entire course. The time in the laboratory varies from three to six hours 



