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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1894
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306 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. ENTOMOLOGICAL KXBIBIT. specimens I l l i n o i s i n s e c t s i n j u r i o u s to t h e a p p l e <l l ' " corn 4 * " • . " wheat " " " strawberry I n s e c t s in t h e food of b i r d s " " fishes.... G e o g r a p h i c a l d i s t r i b u t i o n of I l l i n o i s butterflies I l l i n o i s i n s e c t s as f u r n i s h e d to h i g h s c h o o l s of I l l i n o i s C o m m o n i n s e c t s of I l l i n o i s — Dermaptera Ort h o p t ^ r a Plaiyptera Odonata Plectoptera Hemiptera Neuroptera M ecoptera Trichoptera Coleoptera Diptera Lepidoptera Hy menoptera Total 240 150 53 52 195 91 184 459 4 215 12 73 8 566 20 4 3 2,662 541 1,058 1,016 7,606 Vialt Drawings. 106 P5 43 20 24 9 57 22 9 m . ... I n addition to the above there were exhibited 3,000 specimens of Lepidoptera and Coleoptera, twenty boxes each, from the standard collection of the State Laboratory. Twenty-four racks of vials (about five hundred) of alcohol specimens were shown with these. The special exhibit of the food of one robin for one year consisted of 5,481 pinned species of insects, eighty tubes—each fifteen inches in length —containing alcoholic specimens, and thirty-eight shorter tubes and vialsof alcoholic specimens, besides vials and tubes containing fruit and seeds. The total number of separate objects shown in these collections was 18,550. 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, one typewriting machine and-desk, one letterpress and stand, a small printing press and case of type, a sink and four chairs. In the bookcase was displayed a section of the library of the S t a t e Laboratory of Natural History, the books selected being mainly entomological, and including serial publications, periodicals, monographs, reference books, pamphlets, etc., to the number of about five hundred volumes. Complete sets of the publications of the Laboratory and of t h e State Entomological Keports were also displayed as one of the office table. Under the head of working apparatus, there were shown in this room one compound microscope and accessories, two dissecting microscopes and accessories, two large microtomes, a complete outfit for collecting insects, sets of bottles, vials, and reagents for preserving insects, and apparatus for inflating larvas, and t h a t 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 breeding cages; and two gauzecovered cages suitable for outdoor use. These were arranged on shelves and on a 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.
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