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STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



EErORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY AND 



THYSIOLOGY. 



To the President. 



Sir — I have the honor to submit the foHowing report of the Department 

 of Zoology and I'hysiology for the year ending Jnne 30, 1917: 



The work of the department has progressed normally and satisfactorily 

 during the year and there have been no changes in the instructing force, 

 all the members of which have been re-engaged with a single exception. 

 It seems likely that the work can be done next year with one less in- 

 structor, owing to the lightening of the fall term by cutting out the 

 elementary zoology from the Home Economics course, and Mr. W. E. 

 Eastman will be released on the expiration of his contract. 



Of course other changes may be rendered necessary as a result of the 

 draft for military purposes. 



The following tabulation shows the number of instruction hours, num- 

 ber of classes, and number of students assigned to each member of the 

 department during each of the three terms. In addition Professor 

 Conger taught small classes in Elementary Zoology and Physiology 

 during the summer school. 



TEACHING WORK OF DEPARTMENT 1916-1917. 



There is little else to record in connection with the work of the year 

 except that in common with other departments we have suffered some- 

 what from the lack of funds due to the loss of the Engineering Building. 

 This has not directly affected class work but has limited the work 

 idauiied in connection with loan collections of birds and other specimens 

 which we had hoped to prepare for extension work. In several instances 

 we have sent out collections of fifty to one hundred mounted specimens 

 for exhibition in connection with special meetings of nature clubs, 



