course has been attended by eighty-five persons. Also, courses 

 in Palaeontology and advanced Geology, attended by seven per- 

 sons. Professor Shaler has also continued his usual summer 

 course in connection with the Geological Survey of Kentucky. 



Mr. Davis has this year taken charge of the elementary course 

 in Physical Geography ; this has been attended by forty-five per- 

 sons. There have been no advanced students in Geology during 

 the past year. The elementary instruction in Zoology was given 

 by Dr. Mark ; it consisted of lectures, three times a week, and 

 laboratory work. This course was attended by eighteen students. 



Dr. William James gave, as in former years, an elementary 

 course of instruction in Vertebrate Anatomy and Physiology, to 

 about ninety students belonging to the three upper classes of un- 

 dergraduates. 



My Laboratory at Newport was as usual opened to certain 

 public teachers and assistants of the Museum. Mr. Faxon ob- 

 tained there the bulk of the material for his papers on the devel- 

 opment of Crustacea. 



During the past summer, a number of microscopes and other 

 apparatus have been obtained, to equip a temporary Biological 

 Laboratory for elementary instruction. This course will be in 

 charge of Professor Farlow and of Dr. Faxon. 



Some of the classes in Natural History have now become so 

 large that the want of proper accommodations is seriously felt. 

 We cannot hope to remedy this evil until, in accordance with the 

 conditions of the subscriptions to the Agassiz Memorial Fund, the 

 next addition to the Museum is built. That is to be almost 

 wholly devoted to laboratories, lecture-rooms, and work-rooms, 

 and will give us all the necessary facilities for instruction in Bi- 

 ology and Geology. 



The publications of the Museum during the past year have been 

 more than usually important. Of the Memoirs, we have issued 

 Part I. of No. 1 of Yol. VI., containing the Auriferous Gravels 

 of the Sierra Nevada, by J. D. Whitney, pp. viii, 288, 10 plates, 

 and a map. This volume has been published in connection with 

 Professor J. D. Whitney and the Geological Survey of California ; 

 it contains an elaborate memoir on the presence of human re- 

 mains in the auriferous gravels of California, with a plate of the 

 celebrated Calaveras skull. Nos. 7 to 15 inclusive of the Bul- 

 letin have also been issued and distributed. They contain 



