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All specimens placed in the herbarium are poisoned before being mounted 

 to preserve from insect injury. They are mounted on standard size species 

 sheets, and are filed away in genus covers in the order of Bentham and 

 Hooker's genera, and in large genera the species are arranged in alphabeti- 

 cal order so that each specimen is readily accessible. 



The local collection has grown by annual additions from plants growing 

 chiefly near the College, and is designed partly for use by the students who 

 may desire to compare with authentic specimens any plant they may collect. 

 This collection includes about three hundred specimens of the various vari- 

 eties of apple and pear blossoms. 



The Ellis and Everhart collection of fungi include 2,300 species of typical 

 and reliable specimens. Something of the kind is quite indispensable to the 

 student of fuugi. 



In the duplicate collection there are 1,500 specimens of pbsenogams 

 exclusive of grasses, 175 species and varieties of grasses. 30 species of ferns, 

 and more than 50 species of fungi, all averaging at least eight specimens 

 each, making a total of about 3,490 specimens. 



Thus the grand total foots up as follows: 



General collection 12,371 



Local collection 1,820 



Ellis & Everhart's fungi 2,300 



Duplicate collection .' 3,490 



Grand total number of sp» iimens - 19,781 



I have spent some time in completing the volume of the first report of 

 the State Forestry Commission. It has taken between three ^and four weeks 

 to visit the five experiment stations three times during the past year ; over 

 one week to attend the Society for the Promotion of Agricultural Science 

 and the American Association for the Advancement of Science held during 

 our summer vacation at Cleveland, Ohio; another week to represent the 

 Experiment Station at a meeting held in Knoxville, Tennessee, and over 

 another week in attending a number of Farmers' Institutes. 



I have also taken part in two meetings of the State Horticultural Society, 

 lectured several times at meetings of the county grange and county horti- 

 cultural societies. I attended, as usual, the meeting of the State Teachers' 

 Association and the meeting of the State Grange. For nearly all of the 

 above meetings papers were especially prepared. In no case was anything 

 received in compensation for the service, save traveling expenses at a part of 

 the meetings. 



To visit one or more other States and lecture for pay has been declined for 

 the past three years in succession. 



I devoted every spare moment possible during the winter vacation to the 

 preparation of my second volume of Grasses. 



DONATIONS. 



From W. Green, Au Salle, Mich.: 



One bear tree. 

 From L. Hart, Tuscola, Mich.: 



Loan of a wolf trap and piece of tree. 



