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include an annual income of $13,761 from endowment, $1390 from 

 memberships, and $105 from admission fees to the museum. 



Building. Erected in 1863 at a cost of $100,000 defrayed by sub- 

 scription; it affords 19,330 square feet of floor space for exhibition, 

 3800 for the library, and 2720 for offices, workrooms, etc. 



Administration. By a curator, acting under a museum com- 

 mittee, responsible to a board of 24 councilors elected by the society. 



Scope. Maintenance of collections of New England fauna and 

 flora, and research. 



Library. 35,000 volumes and 27,000 pamphlets on geology, 

 botany, zoology, and anthropology. Open to members daily except 

 Sundays, and accessible to others under certain restrictions. It in- 

 cludes sets of journals and transactions of learned societies in all 

 parts of the world, many of which are not available elsewhere in the 

 vicinity of Boston. 



Publications. The publications were begun in 1834 and now 

 consist of (1) Memoirs, (2) Proceedings, and (3) Occasional Papers. 



Attendance. Open free to the public on Wednesdays and Satur- 

 days from 10 to 4.30, and on Sunday afternoons from 1 to 4.30. On 

 other week-days an admission fee of 25 cents is charged. No statistics 

 of attendance are available. 



HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL. Warren Anatomical Museum. 



The museum comprises 10,000 specimens, illustrating normal, 

 pathological, and comparative anatomy, designed for use in medical 

 instruction and research, and under the care of William F. Whitney, 

 curator, and one preparator. The collection occupies the entire upper 

 half of the administration building with a floor space of 8640 square 

 feet, and is exhibited in alcove cases on the floor and two galleries. 

 It is supported by the income from the Warren Museum fund and the 

 Henry Jackson endowment. 



MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 



No reply has been received to repeated requests for information 

 concerning this society, which is said by Thwaites to have been 

 organized in 1791 and to maintain a museum. 



MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY. 



Although a museum was originally intended to be a part of the 

 institute, none has ever been organized. The teaching collections, 

 however, include about 10,000 fossils, 10,000 minerals, 8000 rocks and 

 economic specimens, and 2000 specimens in structural geology. 



