44 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



REi'UKT OF THE DEi'AUTMENT OF ZOOLOGY AND PHYSI- 

 OLOGY. 



To the Pirsidcnf: 



Sii; — I liave the honor (o siilmiil (lie followiiiji,- report of llic Dcpart- 

 nu'iu of Zoolojiy and IMiysiolojiv for the yeiir eii(lin<;- June ;>(), IJMIO: 



Tliere has been no change in the personnel of tlie department during 

 the year, and considering the fact that a new subject and class was 

 added to the schedule, and that the total number of students taught was 

 somewhat larger than last year, the work has been done as satisfac- 

 torily as was possible. 



The schedule of classes was as follows: 



Fall tei'ui — Economic Zoology, sewioi' elective for agriculturals, 5 stu- 

 dents. Anatomy and Physiology, required study for agricultural sopho- 

 mores, 57 students. Anatomy and Physiology for women sophomores, 

 22 students. 



Winter term — Geology, elective for agricultural seniors, 10 students. 

 Anatomy and Physiology for agricultural sophomores, 42 students. 

 Anatomy and Physiology for women sophomores, 20 students. Physi- 

 cal Geography for five-year mechanical freshmen, 27 students. Ento- 

 mology for special short course (fruit growing), students. 



Spring term — Entomology for agricultural sophomores, 36 students. 

 Entomology, elective for seniors, not enough applicants to warrant form- 

 ing a class. 



In this department all students received laboratory instruction, the 

 larger classes being divided into four or live sections. Both in anatomy 

 and entomology the sections were so large that the laboratory would 

 not accommodate all at once and it was necessary to place tables in the 

 lecture room and handle one section there. 



The class in Physical Geography was a new one, that subject having 

 been added to the five-year mechanical course. The subject, however, is 

 one which, in my opinion, should be taught in the agricultural course 

 as well, and the geology, which is now a senior elective, should be re- 

 quired of all students, in all courses, but considerably earlier in the 

 course than the senior year. 



A glance at the above schedule will show that the work of the year is 

 very unevenly distributed, and it is evident that the winter term is too 

 crowded for the best results, with the i)resent statf ; another assistant 

 would greatly improve the work in that term. This is the more desir- 

 able, since it is now impossible for us to do anything for the Farmers' 

 Institutes after the opening of the winter term. During December, 

 1899, the head of the department attended the Farmers' Institutes in 

 Ogemaw, Crawford and Otsego counties, and Mr. Pettit spent two weeks 

 in institute work in other counties. 



The equipment of the department is improving every year; we now 

 have nearly all the microscopes we need, and the electric projection 

 lantern has been verv useful in most of the classes. More than one hun- 



