DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY. 



The most important event of the year within this department 

 was the loss by death of Professor Mark Vernon SHngerland, As- 

 sistant Professor of Economic Entomology. Professor SHngerland 

 was recognized as one of the highest authorities in the chosen spe- 

 cialty ; and although he was a comparatively young man, he had 

 attained a world-wide reputation. As his entire scientific career 

 had been devoted to the building up of that division of this depart- 

 ment under his immediate charge, the loss to the department was 

 in a very peculiar sense a very great one. 



The chair of Economic Entomology has been filled by the ap- 

 pointment of Glenn W. Herrick as Assistant Professor of Economic 

 Entomology. Professor Herrick is a graduate in Agriculture of 

 Cornell University in the class of 1896, and was for eleven years 

 State Entomologist of Mississippi and for one year State Ento- 

 mologist of Texas. He comes, therefore, with a broad experience 

 in the particular field in which he is to work here. 



I. TE.XCIIING. 



With the exception of the interruption toward the close of the 

 year of two courses that Professor SHngerland had been giving, 

 all of the courses announced in the Program of Courses of Instruc- 

 tion have been given, and all of them have been well attended. 



The total enrollment in the classes of the Department was 513. 

 Some students attended more than one course; the number of 

 different individuals taking studies in the department was as follows : 



Undergraduates -5° 



Graduates 21 



Total 279 



Arrangements have been completed for an important change 

 in the introductory work of the department. Heretofore, the 

 required work of the first year has consisted of one-half term of 

 Invertebrate Zoology, one-half term of Vertebrate Zoology in the 

 College of Arts and Sciences, and one term of General Entomology. 



