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flat maps, and a covered top for rolled maps ; also a specimen case 

 containing over four hundred shallow trays, and placed in a smaller 

 room adjoining the laboratory. This room is for the use of the 

 Assistant Professor of Geology, and also contains accommodations 

 for small classes. 



The third floor is devoted to the Exhibition Rooms, which, when 

 open, will form an important part of the exhibition rooms of the 

 University Museum. 



The fourth floor is devoted to Physiography, Meteorology, and 

 Climatology. Here there is a large laboratory, similar to that on 

 the second floor, for use in the elementary courses in Physiography 

 and Meteorology. There are also two smaller rooms, which are 

 to be used as lecture rooms for smaller classes, and in which the 

 laboratory and lecture materials in Physiography and Meteorology 

 are stored. A private room is also provided for the use of the 

 Sturgis-Hooper Professor of Geology. 



On the fifth floor a lecture room and laboratory are devoted to 

 Experimental and Dynamical Geology, and a large corner room 

 is provided with twenty-four separate desks, at which individual 

 advanced students may do their work, with their books and speci- 

 mens at hand, under the most favorable conditions of light and of 

 quiet. 



Altogether, very few, if any, geological departments have such 

 spacious, convenient, and attractive quarters as those now pro- 

 vided for the Department of Geology and Geography of Harvard 

 University. 



Professor Shaler gave his courses along the same lines as in 

 previous years. 



Professor R. T. Jackson gave the usual laboratory course in 

 General Palaeontology (Geology 14a) to sixteen students. The 

 course in Historical Geology (Geology 15) was taken by one stu- 

 dent, and the course in Advanced Palaeontology (Geology 24) was 

 taken by one student during the first half-year. The Palaeonto- 

 logical collections and equipment are in good condition. A new 

 Bausch Lomb microscope was purchased. A considerable por- 

 tion of the annual appropriation for Palaeontology was spent on 

 cases, etc., these expenses being the result of certain rearrange- 

 ments made when the remainder of the Department of Geology 

 and Geography moved into the new building. The Department 

 is indebted to Mr. J. L. Pultz for some very good fossils from the 

 Palaeozoic of New York State. 



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