DEPARTMENT REPORTS. 93 



class-room, for laboratory work, was well attested in the interest and progress 

 of the students. 



In the summer term of each year the usual course of lectures in Entomology 

 ■was given to the members of the Junior class. The class of 1881 numbered 

 30, and that of 1882 numbered o'-3. This course embraces the anatomy and 

 physiology of insects, systematic and economic entomology, and a full course 

 of instruction in apiculture. In this latter each student not only sees the 

 several manipulations necessary in successful apiculture, but each one actually 

 handles the bees and personally performs the several manual operations. 

 During the past year two students, one from England, came specially to study 

 apiculture. Both have concluded to remain longer, and one to take the full 

 course. 



Owing to our large laboratories much more laboratory work was performed 

 by the last class than was ever possible before. This practice was of very 

 great benefit to the students. The dissections gave to each student a good 

 idea of the morphology of bees and of a typical specimen of each order of 

 insects. Each student in entomology studies more or less thoroughly the 

 biology of some insect, and all make collections, some of which are very fine. 

 One student made a fine collection of injurious insects, and gave it to the 

 South Haven Pomological Society; and the class in 1881 made, with my aid, 

 a fine collection of injurious insects, which was exhibited at the meeting of the 

 American Horticultural Society, after which the collection was presented to 

 the College. The students, without exception, manifested great interest in the 

 study of entomology, and the progress made was very satisfactory. 



One post graduate has spent considerable time in receiving private instruc- 

 tion, and in performing laboratory work in my department during the last 

 year. Two High-school teachers have also received aid and worked in the 

 laboratory. 



HOURS OF TEACHING, 



In the fall term 1 lecture one hour the first half of the term and two hours 

 the second half. During the second half I give laboratory instruction two 

 hours daily; in the spring term I lecture one hour daily, and give laboratory 

 instruction three hours. During the summer term I give one lecture daily 

 and laboratory instruction two hours each day. I have no assistant. 



SUGGESTIONS. 



There are two impediments in the way of the best work in my department. 

 One — the lack of some knowledge of free hand-drawing on the part of the 

 students — will no longer be felt. The other — some knowledge of the use and 

 management of the compound microscope, sucii as is gained under the instruc- 

 tion of Dr. Beal later in the course — ought, in justice to the students, to be 

 removed. Points in histology are constantly demanding consideration, which 

 can only be given after some knowledge of microscopic manipulation. My 

 time in each study is too short to permit the requisite instruction. The 

 course of study ought to be changed so as to provide for this instruction in the 

 use of the compound microscope as early as the first term of the Junior year. 



COLLEGE WORK OUTSIDE OF THE CLASS ROOM. 



During the two years I have given three public lectures at the College. The 

 subject of one delivered in the spring term of 1881 was, '*How to Preserve 



