8 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 
pelled by serious family sickness to leave Cambridge in the middle 
of the year, and was therefore unable to give the course. Other- 
wise the instruction given did not differ from that of the preced- 
ing year, except in so far as concerned alternating courses. 
Diagrams and demonstration material used principally in 
Courses 1 and 2, which had hitherto been arranged in cases on 
the fourth floor, were transferred to the first-floor lecture-room 
and renumbered to correspond with their places in new cases. 
This resulted in saving time both to the instructors and the 
janitor. 
After the announcement of courses in Zoédlogy for 1904-05 had 
been issued Gm July 1904) an arrangement was made which 
allowed the Department to retain the services of Dr. H. W. Rand. 
The serious curtailment of the work in Zodlogy which had been 
impending — necessitating the withdrawal of Course 13 and the 
reduction of Zodlogy 3 to a half-course, to be given by Professor 
Parker — was thus averted, and it was possible to restore the 
courses to the same form which they had had in previous years. 
The lectures in Zoology 1 were given by Professor Parker, who, 
as usual, gave systematic attention to supervising the laboratory 
work and to the training of the assistants who aided him in this 
important part of the course. The chief assistant in the course 
in Harvard University was Mr. Leon J. Cole, Austin Teaching 
Fellow ; the sub-assistants were Messrs. H. KE. Walter, M. Cope- 
land, and N. C. Davis. In Radcliffe College the chief assistant 
was Mr. A. 8S. Pearse, the sub-assistant, Miss Edith N. Bucking- 
ham. Owing to the loss in previous years of a certain amount of 
microscopic apparatus, it was decided to institute an inspection 
of this apparatus at the close of each laboratory period. This re- 
sulted in entirely preventing such loss. 
In Zodlogy 2, by Professor Castle, the lectures were increased 
to forty, and a certain amount of time each week was devoted to 
oral reviews of topics discussed in previous lectures. More time 
than heretofore was also given by the instructor to personal super- 
vision of the laboratory exercises, thus enabling him to become 
better acquainted with the work of individual students. Mr. A. 
D. Howard, Austin Teaching Fellow, was chief assistant in the 
course, and Mr. M. W. Blackman was sub-assistant. 
Zodlogy 38, possibly owing to the announced change in its 
nature and the subsequent restoration of it to its former scope, 
was not so largely elected as in the preceding year. One gradu- 
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