Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1894 [PAGE 304]

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STATE LABORATORY OF NATURAL HISTORY.

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whole a model establishment which, it was believed, might be profitably studied by any economic entomologist, foreign or American. In the insectary was placed apparatus of various kinds for the breeding and rearing of insects of injurious habit, and for the cultivation of the plants subject to insect injuries upon which experimental methods might be demonstrated. The special exhibits made in this entomological department included a, collection of sixteen hundred species of common Illinois insects, so selected as to present a correct general idea of the insect life of the state; separate collections of insects in their various stages injurious to <5orn, to wheat, to the apple, and to the strawberry in Illinois, together with characteristic examples of their injuries; a special exhibit of the food of one robin for one year, based upon studies made at the Laboratory and published in our laboratory bulletins; a set of the insects ascertained to have been eaten by birds; a similar series eaten by fishes: a set of butterflies arranged with a view to illustrating the geographical distribution of insect species in Illinois; and a set of Illinois insects illustrating the work of the laboratory in supplying entomological material to t h e high schools of the state. The ornithological exhibit was made in four series: (1) A collection of the game birds of the state, mounted as dead game; (2) a series of biological groups mounted in various naturalistic attitudes, with natural accessories indicating habits, haunts, and the like; (3) a general •collection of all the birds of the state, grouped according to their distribution within the state at different seasons of the year; and (4) a set of the eggs of the birds breeding in Illinois. Our ichthyology was illustrated by one hundred and fifteen species of fish from various parts of the state, collected by the laboratory force and exhibited in alcohol. To this general account the following statement may be added:

ORNITHOLOGICAL EXHIBIT.

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One hundred and twenty-five clutches of birds' eggs representing as many species of birds nesting in Illinois were also shown; the total number of egg^ in these clutches being five hundred and twenty-five.

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