20 MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY 



lie. The standard exhibition rooms were originally furnished with a 

 gallery; these have been floored over, creating virtually a new story 

 for the research department, so that, with the removal of most of the 

 student laboratories to the Biological Institute, now built on the 

 other side of Divinity Avenue, ample provision has now been made 

 for expansion for a number of years. The rearrangement of the ex- 

 hibition rooms, now seen by the public, represents a great amount of 

 thought, work, and the devotion of all the staff at the cost of unselfish 

 sacrifice of much of their own scientific work. 



In the days of the elder Agassiz, he and his assistants, in addition 

 to their museum work, gave a certain amount of instruction to 

 graduates, undergraduates, and special students. The younger 

 Agassiz disliked to teach, and never did so, except for the occasional 

 supervision of the work of a few advanced students. Under his 

 regime the teaching of Zoology was made a separate department 

 under the control of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. But it con- 

 tinued to have its headquarters at the Museum, where it made use of 

 the collections, laboratories, and lecture rooms. Recently, in order 

 to facilitate the training of young men to be Museum Curators and 

 to enable them to obtain advanced degrees, several of the Curators 

 have received appointments as Members of the Faculty of Arts and 

 Sciences, and instruct, at their pleasure, a few mature students. 



In conclusion, a few words from an address delivered by Alexander 

 Agassiz on the completion of the University Museum in 1902, will 

 best indicate the purposes of the Museum of Comparative Zoology: 



"About one-sixth of the floor space is devoted to exhibition pur- 

 poses. It is not simply an agglomeration of room after room, of case 

 after case, filled with specimens which to the uninitiated mean 

 nothing; but it is a Museum which has been intelligently arranged. 

 Each room means something; each room is there for a purpose, each 

 case is there for a purpose, and each specimen should be there for 

 some reason. 



"But what is shown to the public is by far the smallest part of the 

 Museum. Above and below the exhibition floor are many stories 

 and a basement in which are stored, as it were, the archives of the 

 Museum, to say nothing of the library, the lecture rooms and labora- 

 tories, which are used by the professors and their assistants, who con- 

 tribute so great a share in the development of the Museum. In these 



