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centennial or Columbian year made large demands for a proper display of 

 Michigan matters for the Chicago Exhibition; the preparation and analysis 

 of representative soils, grains and feeding stuffs, fertilizers, etc.. etc. 



The proper display of Michigan and her resources was given a place of 

 honor in our work. 



farmers' institutes. 



For the purpose of visiting Mexico and examining the resources of our 

 sister republic, the senior professor was excused by the State Board of 

 Agriculture from work in the Farmers' Institutes, but the adjunct professor 

 attended four long institutes, viz., at St. Louis, Union City, Paw Paw, and 



Lowell. 



Respectfully submitted, 



R. C. KEDZIE, 

 Professor of Ohemistry. 

 Agricultural College, | F. S. KEDZIE, 

 , 18^8. \ Adjunct Professor of Chemistry. 



DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY. 



To the President : 



Dear Sir — I have the honor to submit my report not only for the fiscal 

 year, but as I am to leave the college I include the present fall term. My 

 classes for the entire time have been unusually large and earnest, enthu- 

 siastic, punctual and attentive. I had large classes in the required studies, 

 and more than I could well manage in the elective studies. For the first 

 time geology was a full term study in the spring of the present year. An 

 exceptionally large number elected the study, and the results were quite 

 satisfactory. In the summer term eight students elected advanced 

 zoology. And this fall term ten of the sixteen seniors elected zoology. 



During the winter of 1892-3, I attended and took part in two of the long 

 institutes and three of the short ones. The long institutes were exceed- 

 ingly interesting. 



During the year, though no longer a member of the experiment station, 

 I have prepared two bulletins, one on "Honey Analyses," all the copies of 

 which are distributed, and the second one "The Birds of Michigan." 

 The 8,000 copies of this last were all called for very soon, and a second 

 edition of 3,000 copies was issued. The demand for this is so great that 

 a third edition must be published soon. This has received high praise 

 from the first ornithologists of the United States, and has attracted wide 

 notice abroad. 



In closing I wish to express my regret at parting with the faculty, with 

 whom my relations have been so pleasant. I believe that few men are so 

 happy as to be associated for nearly thirty years with men so courteous, so 

 able, and so ready to aid and assist all their colleagues, whenever aid is 

 desired. Since my first appointment, in 1866, 1 have had none but the most 



