REPORT. 



To the President and Fellows of Harvard College: — 



Most of the courses of instruction in Zoology, Geology, and 

 Geography offered in Harvard University and in Radcliffe College 

 during the Academic year 1914-1915 were given, as in past years, 

 in the Laboratories and Lecture Rooms of the Museum. 



The seven courses and thirteen half courses in Zoology in 

 Harvard University were taken by 472 students, and the four 

 courses and six half courses in RadclirTe College were taken by 

 164 students. 



In 1913-1914 these courses and students were: — 



Harvard: — 20 courses, 453 students. 



Radcliffe: — 9 courses, 68 students. 



In Geology and Geography eleven courses and fifteen half 

 courses were taken by 461 students in Harvard University and 

 two courses and six half courses were taken by 78 students in 

 Radcliffe College. 



In 1913-1914 these courses and students were: — 



Harvard: — 18 courses, 367 students. 



Radcliffe: — 6 courses, 48 students. 



During the month of July the Museum placed its large Lecture 

 Room at the disposal of the School Committee of the City of 

 Cambridge to aid them in their effort to foster an interest in natural 

 history among school children. 



Mr. George R. Agassiz has most generously added twenty-five 

 thousand dollars ($25,000.00) to the permanent funds of the 

 Museum, the income to be used for the general purposes of the 

 Museum. 



Early in the year 1913 Mr. Samuel Mixter of Boston suggested 

 that the Museum cooperate with him in a proposed expedition 

 to the Kamtchatkan Peninsula by sending a competent collector 

 to secure a series of birds and mammals. This the Museum 

 was enabled to do through the unsolicited generosity of Prof. 



