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C. E. Marshall — Parasite in liver of rabbit. 



Milburn — Large salamander, 



A. A. Morse — Frontal bone of cow with three horns. 



Jason E. Nichols — Egg of Wilson's snipe, from vicinity of Lansing. 



G. F. Noggle — Human bones from Indian mound in Osceola county, 

 Mich. 



Chas. M. Norton — Large salamander. 



K. H. Pettit — Mole, Smlops; bittern, Botaurus; painted tortoise; map 

 turtle; frog tadpoles; lamprey; 35 species of local shells; 3 species fresh 

 water sponges. 



E. Eandolph — Horned grebe, Cohpnhus auritus. 



J. M. Eankin — Skull of cotton-tail rabbit; meadow mouse; soft-shelled 

 tortoise. 



John Scott — Mole; large toad. 



Percy S. Selous — Mounted mammals^wildcat, raccoon, badger, hare. 

 (Purchased.) 



V. M. Shoesmith — Flying squirrel. 



F. E. Skeels — Indian sap-bucket. 

 H. C. Skeels — Two moles. 



Kobt. P. Stark — Parasitic jaeger (purchased); marsh hawk; young bats. 



C. S. Strayer — Red-horse, Moxostoma. 



H. K. Vedder— Fish. 



Ward's Nat. Science Establishment — Minerals and fossils. (Purchased.) 



G. A. Waterman, V. S. — Intestinal worms from colt. 



Chas. F. Wheeler — Rare snake, Tropidoclonium Jcirtlandii; spotted 

 tortoise; freshwater shells; basalt pebble from drift. 



Zoological Laboratory — 2 common rats; 2 kittens in utero. 



REPORT OF THE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH AND MODERN 

 LANGUAGES FOR THE YEARS 1898-99. 



To the President: 



Sir — The work of this department for the year 1898-'99 has been carried 

 on according to the plan entered upon some three years ago and explained 

 in detail in previous reports. 



The classes, with the exception of the one in French and the senior 

 classes in literature, have all been large, and it has required especial effort 

 and application to keep up the careful and minute criticism of the writ- 

 ten work, which constitutes so essential a part of our system. 



In the Fall term the Freshman class was divided into six sections, and 

 the Sophomore into four; but to meet what seemed to be the necessities of 

 the situation, two of these Sophomore sections had to be united into 

 one, making a class too large for the seating capacity of my recitation 

 room. From persoual experience with this double section and with other 

 large classes in my career as a teacher, I am very sure that, for the best 

 work in our department, classes should not number over thirty-five. 

 In purely lecture work, of course, the number in a class may be 

 indefinitely enlarged without detriment; but the lecture, to be of any 

 especial benefit, must be supplemented by laboratory work, in which the 



