The income of the Virginia Barret Gibbs Scholarship was di- 

 vided, according to the terms of the gift, among three of the 

 students who spent some of their time at the Newport Laboratory. 



We have received during the year an anonymous contribution 

 to be applied to the increase of Dr. Hagen's salary. 



As will be seen from the reports of the different departments of 

 instruction, considerable time was spent by the Professors and In- 

 structors in preparing an exhibit for the Columbian Exposition, 

 specially intended to illustrate the methods of instruction, and 

 forming a part of the Harvard University exhibit. The Museum 

 sent plans of the building, prepared under the supervision of Dr. 

 Wolff, who also charged himself with advising the Harvard Camera 

 Club in regard to the views of the most characteristic Exhibition 

 Rooms of the Museum which accompanied them. The plans, 

 and the photographs taken by the Camera Club and by Mr. J. L. 

 Gardner, will be hereafter most useful in the preparation of an 

 extended account of the Museum of Comparative Zoology which 

 it is intended to publish at some future time. 



Photographs and plans of the Newport Marine Laboratory were 

 also sent to Chicago, as well as a complete series of the pub- 

 lications issued in connection with the Laboratory, and of other 

 publications relating to the Marine Fauna of the United States 

 written by officers of the Museum or naturalists connected with 

 the different deep-sea expeditions sent out by the United States 

 Coast Survey and United States Fish Commission in charge of 

 Louis Agassiz, L. F. de Pourtales, or myself: Colonel Marshall 

 McDonald kindly took charge of this exhibit, which was placed in 

 the space assigned to the Fish Commission in the Government 

 Building. Duplicate collections of these publications are in the 

 libraries of the United States Coast Survey and of the United 

 States Fish Commission. 



We have been able to open the Museum on Sundays throughout 

 the year, the Corporation having assumed the additional expense 

 involved in providing the necessary service. The number of vis- 

 itors has been greatly increased in consequence, and this has em- 

 phasized the need of additional and more general labelling of the 

 collections for the benefit of the public. In the Systematic Col- 

 lection the larger Mammals have been more prominently labelled, 

 and the same has been done with the North American Mammals. 

 With our limited means, considerable time must elapse before 



