4 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



The Corporation of the University has added materially to 

 the efficiency of the fire apparatus of the Museum by installing 

 new stand-pipes and hand fire-extinguishers of the " Under- 

 writer " pattern. 



The withdrawal of the Department of Geology has necessitated 

 a thorough overhauling and renovation of the rooms occupied by 

 them as well as the old Zoological Laboratories. In addition to 

 painting and plastering, new floors have been laid in five of the 

 rooms. The Department of Zoology, including Palaeontology, now 

 has thirteen laboratories and lecture rooms, besides a workshop, 

 photographic room, vivarium, and an aquarium in the basement, 

 providing the Department with facilities for instruction and 

 research of which it has been much in need. 



The chief additions to the exhibition rooms consist of two very 

 large mounted specimens of the great land tortoises of the Gala- 

 pagos Islands in the Pacific Room, and the installation in the 

 Atlantic Room of the microscope and mounted collection of 

 " Albatross " Foraminifera presented by Dr. J. M. Flint, U. 8. N. 

 The different Museum Assistants report that the collections are 

 in good condition. Among the many accessions the most note- 

 worthy are Mr. Scudder's gift of his extensive collection of early 

 stages of Butterflies, and Dr. Thaxter's collection of Moths. The 

 Museum has received from Mr. Frank Springer all of the material 

 for his monograph of Uintacrinus, given some time ago. 



The library shows an ever-increasing number of accessions. 

 More than five thousand five hundred volumes, parts of volumes, 

 and pamphlets were added during the past year. Eighty volumes 

 were added to the library of the Entomological Department from 

 the income of the Willard Peele Hunnewell Memorial Fund. The 

 rapid growth of the library and the increasing demands upon it 

 by the students of the University and those of Radcliffe College 

 call for a greater expenditure from the general funds of the 

 Museum for its maintenance. Funds are much needed for library 

 purposes, — such as funds for special departments and a binding 

 fund. The Hunnewell Fund is the only one now at the disposal 

 of the Museum exclusively for library uses. 



The publications during the past year have been more than the 

 usual number. Seven numbers of the u Bulletin " with 341 

 pages and 42 plates, and six numbers of the " Memoirs " with 438 

 pages and 76 plates, were issued. Five of the six "Memoirs" 

 are reports of the Results of Mr. Agassiz's " Blake " and " Tropical 



