564 XKW JF.RSEV STATE AGRICULTURAL. 



Total number of boxes in three stands 36 



Number of vials with alcoholic specimens 93 



Xuniber of specimens 4G5 



Number of adults pinned 1,011 



Number of samples of injury 98 



Number of early stages, etc., dry — estimate 115 



For this display a Gold Medal was awarded to the State 

 Museum. It is matter of gratification ihat the work of this De- 

 partment should have ranked so high at an International Exposi- 

 tion. 



The Department further contributed to the Entomological 

 Section of the Experiment Station Exhibit in the Educational 

 Building, where individual contributions were combined into one 

 comprehensive whole by Prof. C. P. Gillette of the Colorado Sta- 

 tion, who was in charge. 



The collections of the Department have been materially 

 increased during the past year by the direct field work of the 

 members of the staff, by the mosquito staff and, to a small extent 

 by purchases of economic series. A summary of the material in 

 the collection was prepared for and at the request of the President 

 of the College, and transmitted to him. The type collections and, 

 in fact, the entire collection of P)Utterflies and Moths is now housed 

 in a small room in the Ralph Voorhees Library, beyond the 

 danger, it is hoped, of fire and flood. While the present arrange- 

 ment is a decided improvement upon previous conditions, it is not 

 what is needed and separates the Department from a part of its 

 collections. A fire proof building sufficiently large to house the 

 Entomological Laboratory and its collections is one of the real 

 necessities. It goes w ithout saying that there would be no objec- 

 tion to its housing other Departments as well. 



Direct relations have been maintained with all the active 

 Entomological Societies of the Country and w^ith the leaders 

 among the working Entomologists. This has kept the Depart- 

 ment abreast of the times in all respects and has enabled it to pre- 

 serve a leading position in the Scientific work in Entomology. 



Addresses have been given as usual before the State Agri- 

 cultural and Horticultural Societies, and at Institute and County 

 Board Meetings ; bringing the work of the Department directly 

 to the farmers and securing at the same lime a knowledge of local 

 needs that is of value in directing the course of its work. 



The correspondence of the Department during the calendar 

 year 1904 covers 2500 pages of letter books, representing upward 

 of 3000 individual communications and excluding circular letters. 



