REPORT. 



To the President and Fellows of Harvard College: — 



During the past year we have had the advantage of occupy- 

 ing our new quarters, and it is with no little satisfaction that I 

 am able to report the complete success of the new organization. 

 Our present facilities for the instruction of undergraduates, of 

 advanced students, and of specialists, enable us to accomplish all 

 that we expected. The additional room now at our command 

 for our Library has greatly facilitated its care and final arrange- 

 ment ; the reading room is far in advance of our wants. The 

 Museum is now so fully equipped that its business of caring for 

 the collections and giving instruction in Natural History can 

 be carried on to great advantage. With ordinary foresight, Ave 

 shall never hereafter fall back into the confusion which was 

 almost a necessary preliminary to the present order. The 

 orderly condition of the different departments now depends 

 entirely upon the heads of the various branches and upon the 

 instructors. 



The old roof has been changed to correspond to that of the 

 later additions, and the rooms thus obtained will be used for 

 the storage of the Vertebrate Fossils, the dry Mollusca, and 

 the Crustacea. This arrangement will give excellent working- 

 rooms for these three departments, and bring the collection of 

 Vertebrate Fossils into close connection with that of Vertebrate 

 Skeletons, which is stored in the adjoining rooms. 



The following annual courses of instruction have been given 

 at the Museum : — 



A course in Biology, by Professors Farlow and Faxon. 



A course in Cryptogamic Botany, by Professor Farlow. 



An advanced course in Zoology, by Professor Faxon. 



General Lectures were given by Dr. Mark, who also took 

 charge of the new Embryological Laboratory, while Professor 



