OUR MUSEUM. 



The work of classifying and cataloguing 

 the various cabinets is being pushed rapidly 

 forward, and if, as is confidently expected, 

 the new rooms in Judd Hall are finished by 

 the ioth prox., the specimens will be in their 

 places on the shelves before Commencement. 

 Heretofore the size and value of our collec- 

 tions have been little appreciated. Speci- 

 I mens have been preserved in at least ten 

 1 different appartments, many of them in closed 

 I cases or otherwise inaccessible to the student, 

 1 while the Professor in charge has been oblig- 

 ed to organize an exploring expedition when- 

 ever specimens were required for the illustra- 

 tion of lectures. Mostly without labels and 

 uncatalogued, a large portion of the collec- 

 tions has been of no practical value whatso- 

 ever. 



With 187 1 begins a new era in the history 

 of our Museum. When systematically 

 arranged in Judd Hall, every specimen 

 w T ill be available, and a well-proportioned 

 growth will for the first time be possible. 

 Though it will fall far short of what is requi- 

 site, and though it cannot be mentioned in 

 the same breath with those Museums which 

 are considered indispensable in the Universi- 

 ties of Europe, it will compare favorably 

 w T ith those of most of our sister colleges. 



The deficiencies in our collections are 

 apparent to the most casual observer. Take 

 for instance our faunal or local collection. 

 A series of all the animals of New Engiand 



