72 STATE BO.\l?n OF AGRICULTURE 



a tjradujitc (tf llic Tnivd-sitv of Miunesota, avIio had spent most of the 

 precedinj; year in the l)ei>ai-tment in i>ost-j;raduate work in zoolo^jv. It 

 was arranj,^('d that he sliouhl continue to give half liis lime to work for 

 his M. S. (h*<rree, the reniain(h*r to be sjient as Instructor in Zoology. 

 His work has been eminently satisfactory, but it will be impossible to 

 keep him another 3'ear without a substantial increase in salary, and it 

 IS evident tliat the work of the cominjj year will demand the entire time 

 of such an assistant. In this connection I would again call attention to 

 the iusutlicient laboratory facilities of the department, and the over- 

 crowded condition of the Museum, and would respectfully urge that 

 steps be taken at once to better these conditions. 



"With the excejuion noted above there has been no change in the 

 jiersonnel of the department during the year, nor has there been any 

 great change in the equipment, the most im])ortant additions to the 

 latter being a set of eight Kand & McNally wall majjs for the teaching 

 of jdiysical geography, and a set of 23 stereoi)ticon slides illusti-ating 

 Alaskan glaciers, for use in the classes in geology and physical geog- 

 raphy. The work in the last named study is now confined to the mechan- 

 ical students of the five-year course, but, as previously suggested, it 

 should be extended to all the courses and in any event to the agri- 

 cultural course. 



In addition to the work scheduled above, the Department offered two 

 weeks of service for farmers' institutes during the fall term, but no 

 work was assigned. In compliance with the request of the superintend- 

 ent, I prepared an illustrated lecture on tlie more valuable birds of 

 the state, to be given at the round-up institute, but owing to lack of 

 time for the program only a fragment of it was given. I liave also had 

 in preparation for the past ^ear a bulletin on the Birds of Michigan, 

 for which there would seem to be a demand in view of the ])henomenal 

 development of interest in birds throughout the country, and the utility 

 of such information in connection with nature study in the schools 

 and tlie relations of birds to the restriction of injurious insects. The 

 constant pressure of other duties, however, x>i"events rajud progress 

 and it is not probable that this bulletin will be ready for the printer 

 before autumn or winter. 



AVALTER B. BARROWS, 

 Profrsf<or of ZooJof/!/ and Physiology. 

 Agricultuual College, Mich., 

 June 30, 1901. 



