42 DEPARTMENT REPORTS. 



INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE. 



As delegate from the American Academy of Medicine, I attended the 

 International Congress of Medical Jurisprudence in New York in June, 

 1889. The papers and discussions, while not relating to the ordinary pur- 

 suits of life, were of great value as related to human society and public 

 welfare. I was appointed one of the vice presidents of the congress. 



Daring the interregnum between the resignation of President Willits and 

 your assuming the office of president of the college, additional labor and 

 responsibility were thrown upon me as director pro tern, of the Experiment 

 Station, and the local discharge of duties as President pro tern, during the 

 absence of Acting President Wells. 



By your appointment I was happily relieved of duty in both these offices. 



Respectfully submitted, 



R. C. KEDZIE, 

 ♦ Prof. Chemistry. 



Agricultural College, Mich., ) 

 June 30, 1889. f 



REPORT OF THE PROFESSOR OF ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY. 



President 0. Clute: 



I submit the following report for the Department of Zoology for the past 

 College year. It gives me great pleasure to report excellent work both in 

 class room and laboratory. The students have been earnest and faithful to 

 a marked degree. The work has been much as in previous years; and the 

 classes have been large and enthusiastic. I wish to express my grateful 

 acknowledgments of the valuable services rendered by my assistants Messrs. 

 F. H. Hillman and A. B. Cordley, both of whom have conducted laboratory 

 classes with exceptional success. Mr. Hillman left me during the year, hav- 

 ing been called to the Nevada State University, as Professor of Entomology. 



the mc millan collection. 



In my last year's report, I made the following statement : "The one need of 

 the department of instruction, is an enlarged museum and more extensive 

 cabinets." It gives me exceeding pleasure to state that this need has been 

 met in large part through the most generous gifts of Senator James* McMillan. 

 Through his noble benefaction, our cabinets are enriched by the Tepper Col- 

 lection of Lepidoptera, and the Austin Collection of Coleoptera, which adds 

 some 10,000 species, and 50,000 specimens to our entomological cabinets, and 

 gives us one of the finest collections in the west. That the admirable oppor- 

 tunities for special work in the department are not unappreciated is evinced 

 in the fact that six persons have already signified their desire to work in the 

 laboratory during our next winter vacation. We now have very excellent 

 facilities for special study in Entomology, which we hope to extend, so that 

 very soon there will be no better in the United States. 



The apiary and experimental work has been turned over to the Experi- 



