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the Appalachian Mountain Club at Green Island, Lake George, 

 on the geology of the Adirondack region. In the spring an ad- 

 dress was also given before the Fall River Natural History Society 

 on the geology of southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island. 



Dr. T. A. Jaggar conducted, as usual, the course in advanced 

 geological field-work (Geology 22). Owing to the increased 

 number of mining students, this course for the second time 

 doubled its attendance to a total of eighteen men in 1901-02 ; 

 one of these left college in the middle of the year. The class 

 made a geological survey of the whole Boston area, using new 

 maps furnished by the United States Geological Survey. In 

 order to make the work of so large a class efficient, the system of 

 field-work, notes, collections, and reports was improved in various 

 respects, and much of this improvement was planned and carried 

 out by Mr. La Forge, who acted as Assistant in the course. Mr. 

 La Forge continued his own field studies on the dikes of Boston 

 and vicinity. The new laboratories on the fifth floor of the Geo- 

 logical wing of the Museum were fitted up during the spring with 

 accommodation for twenty-four advanced students and with devices 

 for draughting and storing collections ; temporarily the apparatus 

 used in Experimental Geology has been placed in the south room 

 on this floor. 



On May 12th Dr. Jaggar accompanied the Relief Expedition 

 of the United States Steamer " Dixie " to Martinique. Dr. 

 Palache kindly volunteered to finish the remaining lectures 

 in Geology 9, and the completion of the work in Geology 22 

 was superintended by Mr. La Forge. Dr. Jaggar remained 

 in the West Indies two months and a half, returning to 

 the United States July 28th. Collections were made for the 

 Museum on the slopes of the volcanoes Pel6e and Soufri£re in 

 Martinique and St. Vincent, and a valuable collection of relics 

 from St. Pierre was presented to the Museum by the Government 

 of Martinique. A large specimen of volcanic bomb from Mont 

 Pelee collected by Mr. G. C. Curtis has also been secured for the 

 Museum. Mr. Curtis was associated with Dr. Jaggar in the West 

 Indies. 



Mr. Read gave the course in Elementary Physiography to sixty- 

 six students, and acted as Assistant in Courses 4, 14, and 14a. 

 He went abroad in the summer of 1902, to continue his work for 

 the degree of Ph.D. at Munich, under Professor von Zittel. 



Mr. Woodman acted as Assistant in Courses 4, 5, and 8, and 



