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Mr. Garman, Professor Hamlin, Mr. Brewster, Professor Hyatt, 
and Dr. Fewkes, have all given assistance to visitors in their 
respective Departments. 
The unexpected demand for instruction is in excess of our 
accommodation, and I regret to say that we are again compelled, 
for want of Laboratory space, to occupy rooms in the older sec- 
tions of the Museum intended for a very different purpose. This 
is unfortunate, as any such temporary arrangements must be 
wasteful. Besides, some of the courses of instruction have on 
this account been removed from their natural connection with the 
Library and apparatus to other buildings. It will be absolutely 
essential, in order to maintain the unity of organization on which 
so much care and money have been expended, to provide addi- 
tional quarters for the accommodation of the increasing number of 
students, and the natural demands for expansion in the special- 
ties of each Department. At the present moment an additional 
section of the Museum would barely meet our requirements. 
Considerable attention has been paid to the improvement of the 
Laboratories, and to the increase of their equipment. 
At the Marine Laboratory at Newport, Dr. Fewkes has had the 
charge of two students. He has continued his work on the de- 
velopment of Echinoderms, and I have spent some time on the 
Embryology of Bony Fishes. 
As usual, a large amount of material has been sent to various 
institutions and individuals for study. I may mention specially 
the Zodlogical Society of London, the Smithsonian, the Peabody 
Academy, Messrs. Ridgway, Ayers, Drs. Bauer, Meriam, Murray, 
Spengel, Royer, Wilder, and Professors Allen, Lacaze-Duthiers, 
and Marsh. 
Professor Lesquereux, to whom had been sent our extensive 
material of Fossil Plants from the Dakota group, has returned 
the specimens, as well as a series of specimens from the Laramie 
group and a number of carboniferous plants. The cretaceous 
specimens, as he says, have been of the greatest use to him, and 
the new material will be incorporated in a volume on fossil plants 
which he is preparing for publication by the Geological Survey of 
the United States. The carboniferous species have been published 
in his Flora of the Carboniferous Period of the United States. 
Excellent progress has been made during the past year with the 
Reports on the “ Blake ’’ collection. 
