The furniture of the entomologist’s office comprised two 
office desks, four plain work tables, three tables with specimen 
cases, a table for reference books and record books, two small 
cases for specimens, a large bookcase, two reagent-cases, a type- 
writing machine and desk, a letter-press and stand, a small 
printing-press and case of type, a sink, and some chairs. 
In the bookcase was placed a section of the library of the 
State Laboratory of Natural History, the books selected being 
mainly entomological, and including serial publications, peri- 
odicals, monographs, reference books, pamphlets, etc., to the 
number of about five hundred volumes. A complete set of the 
publications of the Laboratory and of the State entomological 
reports was also displayed on one of the office tables. 
Under the head of working apparatus, there were shown in 
this room one compound microscope and accessories, two dis- 
secting microscopes and accessories, two large microtomes, a 
complete outfit for collecting insects, sets of bottles, vials, and 
reagents for preserving insects, an apparatus for inflating larvae, 
and that used in mounting and preserving insects. 
In the insectary, adjoining the office room, were sixty large 
and small breeding cages with glass fronts and gauze sides; 
forty glass jars of various sizes and shapes, to be used as breed- 
ing cages; and two gauze-covered cages suitable for outdoor 
use. These were arranged on shelves and ona table covered 
with sand. There were also in this room a work table with an 
Arnold steam sterilizer, large culture jars and funnels, and other 
apparatus used in the culture of fungi causing insect disease. 
The zoélogical display was made in accordance with detailed 
plans prepared by the Director of the State Laboratory, the 
execution of which was confided to Mr. Charles F. Adams* for 
the birds, and to Prof. H. E. Summers for the insects. 
The material for the ornithological exhibit was chiefly ob- 
_ tained by special collections made for this purpose during the 
*The sudden and wholly unexpected death of Mr. Adams at Chicago while 
engaged in the installation of this exhibit, to whose preparation he had devoted 
nearly two years of intense and unremitting labor, brought to a mournful and 
untimely end the promising career of an excellent naturalist and a most lovable 
man. Admirably equipped by his university education, by his very unusual 
artistic skill as a preparator of zodlogical material, and by his experiences of 
scientific travel in various parts of the world, he seemed merely at tke begin- 
ning ofa life of eminent usefulness to science and to the State. 
