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women's clubs and school exhibitions, but the amount of material avail- 

 able has been small since it does not seem wise to use the first 

 class specimens from the museum for such purposes. Several members 

 of the department are available for nature study talks in connection 

 with this extension work if a little notice in advance can be given. 



GENERAL MUSEUM. 



The condition of the general museum remains almost precisely as 

 last year. Lack of funds has prevented the relabeling of specimens, 

 and lack of expert labor has prevented the transfer of specimens to proper 

 perches or standards for exhibition and the preparation of duplicate 

 specimens for loan collections. The museum, as always, has proved one 

 of the most popular points of interest for visitors to the College and its 

 collections are used with increasing frequency by our own students. 

 There is almost no limit to the development of such usefulness if a 

 moderate amount of money and a little expert labor can be provided. 

 The museum should be the largest and best natural history museum 

 in the state and its location and present size and condition fully war- 

 rant its being considered the State Museum. I trust the time is not far 

 distant when its tremendous importance as an educational factor may 

 warrant the provision of a modern museum building in which the col- 

 lections can be properly displayed and the aim of a first class state 

 museum fully realized. 



Respectfully subniitted, 



WALTER B. BARROWS, 

 Professor of Zoology and Physiology 

 and Curator of General Museum. 



East Lansing, Mich., June 30, 1917. 



REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY. 



President F. S. Kedzie. 



Dear Sir — Following is a brief report of the Department of En- 

 tomology for the year ending June 30, 1917. 



During the year just ended several changes have been made in the 

 courses of instruction dealing with the Department of Home Economics. 

 Course VI, a required course, dealing with household insects, has been 

 dropped, and an elective consisting of a year's work in Entomology has 

 been substituted. This latter course was not given during the past year 

 because the number of students registering in it hardly seemed to war- 

 rant the expense of carrying a five credit course through the entire 

 year. Five short courses were given during the fall and winter — two 

 in Apiculture and three in Entonlolog3^ During the summer school 

 of 1916, Entomology 1 was given by Miss Eugenia McDauiel. 



On September 1st Mr. G. C. Woodin resigned, to pursue advanced 

 work at the Ohio State University. Mr. P. B. Wiltberger, a graduate 

 of Ohio State LTniversity and later instructor in the University of Maine, 



