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The comparison in geological structure and scenic attractions of 

 the various parts of our own and other lands, which such personal 

 observations enable me to give in our lectures, add a remarkable 

 zest to these studies of nature. 



The attendance has been most gratifying, and during the 

 autumn course was frequently larger than our present lecture room 

 would contain, and we are anxiously waiting for the completion of 

 our new large hall, where the teachers who may come, not only 

 from our city, but from any part of our State, may find ample ac- 

 commodation, and we shall have the space and the apparatus we 

 need in order to present our subjects in a manner so much more 

 impressive and attractive, as to make this visual method of convey- 

 ing instruction almost new,. when compared with what we have 

 already accomplished. 



EXTRACT OF REPORT OF CURATOR OF 

 THE GEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT. 



[Under the charge of Prof. R. P. Whitfield.] 



Pal^eontological Collections. — During the past year labels 

 of a permanent character were furnished for that part of the Euro- 

 pean collection still unlabelled at the close of 1887. Also for the 

 collections of the Jurassic, Triassic, Cretaceous and Palaeozoic 

 foreign collections, amounting to 1,425 complete permanent labels. 

 In the Utica Slate and Hudson River Groups of the American 

 series, about 420 new labels were added ; these being largely for 

 type and figured specimens, requiring citations from books where 

 published, giving volume, page, plate and figure, require much ex- 

 tra time and labor. 



Of those labelled in the European collections, many were from 

 the old collections received from the Park Department, the labels 

 for which had been lost while at the Arsenal building. These it 

 was necessary to identify newly from various European publica- 

 tions, and entailed much additional labor and time. Most of the 

 above mentioned collections have been arranged and classified, 

 and the species separated by colored strips of wood. 



There have been two important purchases for this department 

 during the year, namely : that of Palestine fossils from the Rev. Dr. 

 William Bird, of Abeih, Syria ; and that of Dr. Klippart, of Colum- 

 bus, Ohio, from Dr. A. E. Foote, of Philadelphia. 



One donation of note, a cast of a fossil quadruped, Phenacodus 

 Primcevus, by Dr. Robert H. Lamborn, deserves notice here. 

 Other donations and additions are mentioned in the appendix to 

 this report. 



Mineralogical Collection. — -There has been provided for 

 this collection a series of between three and four hundred compo- 

 sition labels, which are intended to enable the student to under- 



