tendent of Indian Affairs in that province, at the expense of Mr. 

 H. R. Bishop, have been placed on exhibition. Another supple- 

 mentary series, collected during the past summer, has been shipped 

 from San Francisco, and a great war canoe, sixty-two and a half 

 feet long and over eight feet beam, is now on its way on a steamer 

 of the Pacific Mail Company, who, with the Panama Railroad 

 Company, are bringing it to us without expense. 



In the Geological Hall the labeling of the collections has been 

 steadily progressing. The Geological sections illustrated by 

 specimens of rock from New Hampshire and Vermont, purchased 

 from Prof. C. H. Hitchcock, have been partially placed on exhi- 

 bition in case S, and the relief map of New Hampshire has been 

 finished by means generously given by a friend of the institution. 



In the Mineralogical Department the labeling has been pro- 

 gressing satisfactorily. 



In the Lecture Department the instruction given by the Super- 

 intendent has proved very attractive ; the Lecture Hall at times 

 has been overcrowded and made thereby uncomfortable. A 

 course of twenty lectures upon Zoology was begun last fall, ten to 

 be delivered last autumn and ten this spring. The last series 

 began with an attendance of 101 and ended with 154. 



The great importance and value of this instruction is shown by 

 the following extract from the Report of the City Superintendent 

 of Public Schools to the Board of Education: 



"City Sup's Office, BOARD OF EDUCATION, 

 No. 146 Grand Street, 



New York, February 12th, 1883. 



My Dear Sir : 



The following is an extract from my annual report for the 

 year 1882, which will soon be ready for publication : 



" It seems proper to state that the lectures delivered by Prof. Albert 

 S. Bickmore, at the Museum of Natural History, have been productive 

 of very good results in this department of study. These lectures, in- 

 troduced about three years ago, as an experiment, have so grown in 

 attractiveness and utility, that the class of thirty-five teachers has be- 

 come one hundred and fifty, representing every Grammar Department 



