REPORT. 



To the President and Fellows of Harvard College: — 



Our most important accessions of the year are the magnificent 

 collections of the " Blake" Expedition of 1878-79, and the large 

 collections of Birds, Mammals, Reptiles, and Fishes made by Mr. 

 Garman at St. Kitts, Dominica, Grenada, Trinidad, St. Thomas, 

 and Porto Rico, after he left the " Blake." I may mention, also, 

 our exchanges with the National Museum at Washington, and the 

 purchases made of Professor Henry A. Ward in Birds and Mam- 

 mals. 



Many improvements have been made in the arrangement of 

 the Exhibition Rooms. The galleries of the North American 

 Faunal room, and the gallery containing the Systematic Collec- 

 tion of Crustacea, have been opened to the public. The room 

 containing the Systematic Collection of Fishes and Selachians, 

 having been provisionally arranged by Mr. Garman, is now acces- 

 sible to the public. Excellent progress has been made in the 

 completion of the new cases in the room devoted to the System- 

 atic Collection of Mollusca, and a large part of the collections 

 intended for exhibition have already been selected by Mr. Hamlin. 

 Much has also been done by Mr. Allen in the selection of material 

 for the Birds and Mammals of the Faunal collections still remain- 

 ing incomplete. 



The exchanges of the Library continue with regularity. To a 

 few correspondents of the Museum, the publications have been 

 distributed by the Smithsonian ; the majority, however, have re- 

 ceived them direct by mail or through the agency of book- 

 sellers. 



To Messrs. Lyman, Cabot, and Pourtales the Museum is in- 



