18 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 
the advanced courses of each institution have been open to gradu- 
ate students in the other. During the past year a number of 
Institute students took advantage of this arrangement, which has 
again proved its value and practicality. The sessions of the Geo- 
logical Conference in each institution have distinctly benefitted 
by the attendance of instructors and advanced students from the 
other institution. It is to be hoped that this codperation may be 
still further systematized and strengthened; the hope is based on 
the cordial relations existing between the two departments con- 
cerned. 
Mr. Robert W. Sayles continued to give his valued services as 
Curator of Exhibition Collections and has again showed his deep 
interest in the University by generously presenting needed material 
and considerable sums of money for the running expenses of the 
Geological Section of the Museum, as well as financially aiding the 
teaching work of the Department in a very substantial way. 
The Department is also indebted to Prof. Roland B. Dixon, acting 
for the Department of Anthropology, for the generous gift of many 
geological books, which form a useful addition to the small working 
library of the Division of Geology. Other gifts are noted in the 
sequel. 
The Department is still very seriously handicapped by the lack 
of a thoroughly equipped departmental library. At present the 
Department has neither a librarian nor a secretary. The waste 
of time and energy on the part of the professors, as they are com- 
pelled to do much purely clerical work, is obvious. The most 
pressing need of the Department is doubtless that for an officer ap- 
pointed by the Corporation to act as Librarian-secretary. That 
notable financial saving could thus be effected is already proved 
by geological departments in other institutions, as, for example, 
that at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 
Mr. Edward Wigglesworth, Curator of the Gardner Collection 
of photographs, reports in tabular form on the state of the collec- 
tion on July 1, 1914:— 
Photographs Slides Negatives 
Accessions since last report 73 519 
Unidentified views 150 
Duplicates 116 
Broken 0 
Last accession number 7,415 
Number now in collection 7,304 
Card catalogued 0 

