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year many such requests have beea urged, and in most cases had to be denied. 

 Could such aid be extended, it would not only please and benefit the practical 

 men of the State, but the wider knowledge gained by the one making the 

 investigations would greatly aid the students. 



A second need is more specimens in the museum. Our very short courses in 

 general zoology and geology, which should certainly be lengthened as soon as 

 a way can be found to do it, make it most desirable that the means of illustra- 

 tion in these branches be as complete as possible. In geology we ought to 

 have the service of Ward's casts and many more fossils. Our present models 

 serve an excellent purpose and should be increased. The Michigan fauna 

 should be represented by a complete list of preserved specimens. From the 

 important place that entomology holds in our course, and from its importance 

 as one of the most practical of the sciences, we should have a full collection 

 of the insects of the whole country. 



It is also suggested by many of the leading bee-keepers of the State that our 

 apiary be extended so as to fully occupy tlie time of one man. The apiary 

 now affords means to illustrate all the various operations necessary in bee- 

 keeping. It is urged, however, that many experiments that could be best 

 made here can only be made in large apiaries. There is force in the argu- 

 ment, and when we remember that such a change would not add any expense, 

 but would make the apiary a source of much greater profit than at present, we 

 may well give the suggestion thoughtful consideration. 



OUTSIDE WORK. 



In the summer of 1881, I attended the Cincinnati meeting of the Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science, and presented two papers, the results of 

 my experimental work at the College. These are both published in the pro- 

 ceedings of that society. Immediately after I spent a week in Central Ohio 

 collecting insects, and added several hundred species, new to our collections. 

 One year ago last winter I went to Vassar to aid the local committee in arrang- 

 ing for the Institute afterwardheld at that place. I gave two addresses at this 

 Institute and one at the Oxford Institute, in Oakland county. I also attended 

 the annual or winter meeting of the State Horticultural Society at Ann Arbor, 

 where I read a paper, also the annual meeting of the State Bee-keepers' Soci- 

 ety, where I gave an address. I was elected President of this last named 

 association. 



During the past summer I attended the meeting of the Society for the Pro- 

 motion of Agricultural Science at Montreal, where I read two papers. I also 

 attended the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science at the same place. I have also attended the State and National Bee- 

 keepers' associations, the former at Battle Creek, the latter at Lexington, Ky. 

 I was President of both associations, and gave an address at both meetings, as 

 required by the constitutions of the associations. These addresses were the 

 results of the investigations which were made at the College. I also attended 

 the winter meeting of the State Pomological Society at South Haven, where I 

 delivered an address on " Practical Entomology," which is published in the 

 report of the society. I have also attended, read a paper, and taken a part in 

 the discussions at the two meetings of the Central Michigan Bee-keepers' 

 Association. I also prepared two lectures which I was employed to give before 

 farmers' meetings in Ohio. In December I spoke before three institutes in 

 Northern Ohio, and addressed a joint meeting of the State Board of Agricult- 

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