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sources. This will entail a very material reduction in the 

 working force and running expenses, as the regular income of 

 the Museum is somewhat less than $15,000 annually, only 

 half the sum needed to carry on the present scale of opera- 

 tions. 



The instruction given at the Museum has been in charge of 

 Professor McCrady, formerly of Charleston, S. C. ; he has 

 been assisted by Messrs. Faxon and St. John in the labora- 

 tory work. An important element in the educational features 

 of the Museum is the establishment of a Summer School of 

 Natural History on the Island of Penikese. From the terms 

 of the deed of trust of Mr. Anderson, the trustees of the 

 school are empowered to enter into such agreements with the 

 Trustees of the Museum and the corporation of Harvard Col- 

 lege as may be most beneficial in promoting the teaching of 

 natural history. 



The Museum is under great obligations to several volunteer 

 assistants who have taken charge of special departments. In 

 the first place, during the past year, Mr. L. F. Pourtales, 

 assistant U. S. Coast Survey, has continued, under orders of 

 the superintendent, to work up at the Museum part of the 

 results of the Hassler Expedition, particularly the deep-sea 

 corals and crinoids, the description of which is now in the 

 press. During the summer he had charge of the yacht 

 " Sprite" at Penikese Island, chiefly used to show the pupils 

 of the Anderson school the process of dredging, and collect 

 specimens for their instruction. Having resigned his position 

 on the Coast Survey on the first of October, he has since then 

 assisted Professor Agassiz in the general direction of the 

 Museum and has made considerable progress in the arrange- 

 ment of the systematic collection of corals in the exhibition 

 room devoted to Radiates. Under his direction a fine collec- 

 tion of Foraminifera from the deep-sea soundings and dredg- 

 ings in the Gulf Stream has been selected and mounted by 

 Mr. James H. Logan of Jacksonville, 111., at the expense of 

 the U. S. Coast Survey. He has also selected collections of 

 corals and fossils for the normal schools of the State, accord- 

 ing to Professor Agassiz's plan. He has been assisted by 

 Miss Bradbury, and part of the time by Miss Hyde, in the 

 mounting of the specimens. 



