4 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 
The Museum is indebted to Messrs. Bangs, Brewster, Faxon, 
and Woodworth for the care they have taken of the collections 
under their charge. The accompanying special reports give the 
details as to the additions received and the work accomplished | 
during the year. 
Of the collections received, mention should be made of the 
valuable series of Vertebrates from Gorgona Island, Colombia, 
the Pearl Islands, Bay of Panama, and from the vicinity of the 
city of Panama, presented by Mr. John E. Thayer, and of the 
collections, chiefly entomological, presented by Mr. A. A. 
Packard. Mr. Packard’s father, the late Professor A. S. Packard, 
a graduate of the Lawrence Scientific School, and a student of, 
and assistant to, the founder of this Museum, was connected for 
many years (1867-1878) with the Peabody Academy of Science 
of Salem, and later, from 1878 until his death in February, 1905, 
with Brown University. Professor Packard bequeathed to the 
Museum a complete set of his scientific publications, other than 
books, and left the disposition of his collections to his son. 
Throughout his life, Professor Packard was an ardent accumu- 
lator of material and a prolific author. His collections, with 
many types, gathered during his residence in Salem, have been 
the property of the Museum since 1885, and Mr. Packard, recog- 
nizing the advantages to his father’s fame and to future investi- 
gators, has given the Museum the collections amassed by his 
father since 1878. We are also indebted to Messrs. Allen, 
Barbour, and Bryant for the larger part of the specimens col- 
lected during their explorations of the Bahamas; to Mr. Addison 
Gulick for a series of Bermudian land shells, fossil and recent, 
and to Professor W. W. Coe for a number of Nemerteans from 
the west and northwest coasts of America. 
The specimens selected for the Exhibition room devoted to 
the Palaeozoic faunae, have been arranged, and the room has been 
opened to the public during the past year. The three cases on 
the south wall of the room are filled with Vertebrates; the other 
wall cases and those of the central floor space, equal in all to 
twenty-seven cases, are given over to the Invertebrates. The 
richness of the Museum collections in Palaeozoic fossils will make 
this room, when the material is completely mounted and labelled, 
fairly representative of the older faunae and of much general in- 
terest. The casing of the Exhibition room for the Mesozoic 
faunal collections has been completed, and a beginning made in 
