
REPORT. 
To THE PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS oF HARVARD COLLEGE:— 
DurinG the Academic year 1913-1914, many of the courses of 
instruction in Zoédlogy, Geology, and Physical Geography offered 
in Harvard University and in Radcliffe College were given in the 
Laboratories and Lecture Rooms of the Museum. 
In Zodlogy twenty courses or half courses were taken by 453 
students in Harvard University and nine courses or half courses 
by 68 students in Radcliffe College. 
In 1912-1913 these courses and students were: — 
Harvard: — 19 courses, 407 students; 
Radcliffe:— 9 courses, 56 students. 
The eighteen courses or half courses in Geology and Geography 
in Harvard University during 1913-1914 were taken by 367 stu- 
dents and the six half courses in Radcliffe College were taken by 
48 students. 
In 1912-1913 these numbers were: — 
Harvard: — 17 courses, 268 students; 
Radcliffe: — 3 courses, 23 students. 
During the year, a long-hoped for plan of codperation between 
the Boston Society of Natural History and the Museum has been 
effected. This Society, founded in 1830, at once assumed through 
its meetings, publications, library, and museum a position of 
importance. In the latter it accumulated, especially in the period 
of its first fifty years, valuable collections in natural history and 
ethnology. The establishment in 1859 of the Museum of Compar- 
ative Zodlogy, and later, in 1866, of the Peabody Museum, natur- 
ally led to the consideration of the duplication of resources and a 
desirable division of the field of work. In 1867, the Society voted 
to abolish the department of ethnology, and shortly afterwards 
presented their ethnological collections, including the valuable 
collection of the Boston Marine Society, to the Peabody Museum. 
A limitation as to the field to be covered in zodlogy was a matter 
