REPORT. 



To the President and Fellows op Harvard College:— - 



During the past year the corner-piece of the Museum has been 

 plastered, and some of the rooms are already occupied. This 

 part of the building can be completed in such time that the Zoo- 

 logical and Geological laboratories will be ready for use at the 

 opening of the next academic year. 



The usual courses of instruction have been given at the Museum 

 by Professors Whitney, Hagen, James, Farlow, and Faxon, and 

 by Messrs. Mark, Davis, and Wadsworth. 



For the details of this instruction and that in charge of Pro- 

 fessor Whitney, I would refer to their several reports. 



Two of the assistants of the Museum and two advanced stu- 

 dents spent the greater part of the summer at my Newport 

 laboratory. The former devoted their time principally to em- 

 bryological studies of annelids, fishes, and polyps. The collec- 

 tions sent for study to Professors Verrill, Smith, and Mackintosh 

 have been returned by them. 



About eight hundred volumes have been added to the Library 

 during the past year. A special list of the Museum publications 

 is given to Appendix A of this Report ; they are somewhat more 

 extensive and numerous than has usually been the case, consist- 

 ing of twelve numbers of the Bulletins, and of two numbers of 

 the Memoirs. The publications issued elsewhere by several 

 specialists, based mainly upon Museum materials, are mentioned 

 in the special Reports of the Assistants of the Museum. 



The publication of the preliminary Reports on the " Blake " col- 

 lections has made excellent progress during the past year. There 

 now remain unfinished of these only those upon the Fishes, 

 Halcyonoids, Foraminifera, Ostracoids, Nemerteans, and some 



