580 ANNUAL RECORD OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



furnishes evidence of much and successful work in carrying 

 out the objects of the Academy. Mr. F. W. Putnam, the 

 curator, reports numerous additions to the collections, es- 

 pecially in the departments of ichthyology and archaeology. 

 A feeling allusion is made to the death of Professor Agassiz, 

 who was ever a constant friend to the establishment. The 

 number of visitors during the year amounted fully to 40,000, 

 the museum being open every day. Dr. Packard, the curator 

 of the Articulata, reports progress in the work of the identi- 

 fication of the collections, in which much assistance has been 

 received from Messrs. Uhler, Hagen, Grote, Crotch, Emerton, 

 and others. 



REPORT OF THE MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY FOR 



1873. 



The annual report of the trustees of the Museum of Com- 

 parative Zoology at Cambridge for the year 1873 has just 

 appeared, and gives the usual account of satisfactory work 

 done during that period. They report that, in addition to 

 the regular income of the Museum, which amounts to about 

 $15,000 per annum, the sum of nearly $176,000 has been con- 

 tributed by various parties to enable the late director, Pro- 

 fessor Louis Agassiz, to meet special emergencies in the pur- 

 chase of specimens, and of maintaining the collections, etc. 



With the exhaustion of this sum as the only reliable 

 support consisted of the regular annual income it was found 

 necessary to reduce the force very greatly; and on the 1st 

 of April of the present year a large number of the former 

 employes were dismissed, a few being retained to maintain 

 the different departments in a state of efficiency. 



Due acknowledgments are made to the gentlemen con- 

 nected with the Museum for valuable services rendered, as 

 also to the contributors who have added so largely to the 

 number of specimens. 



The most important of the additions are those from the 

 Hassler expedition, covering as they do ail branches of zoolo- 

 gy. Next to these are mentioned the very complete series 

 of marine animals from the Mauritius, presented by Colonel 

 Nicholas Pike, the late consul to that island. Extensive do- 

 nations of Asiatic insects were received from the Rev. M. M. 

 Carleton, and of North American coleoptera from Dr. Lewis, 



