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were successfully carried out. A report on the scientific results 

 will be published later. Dr. Bigelow's co-operation enabled the 

 Museum to undertake this work, and we have to thank the Hon. 

 G. M. Bowers, U. S. Commissioner of Fisheries, for placing the 

 "Grampus" at Dr. Bigelow's disposal, and also Dr. L. J. Cole,, 

 who served as Assistant on the trip. 



Owing to the smallness of its staff, the Museum engages, from 1 

 time to time, Assistants for the care and arrangement of its study 

 series of specimens. 



During the year, Miss E. B. Bryant was employed for two> 

 months, and under Dr. Faxon's supervision arranged, catalogued,, 

 and labeled a considerable number of land shells. 



Mr. A. P. Morse was engaged for one month, and worked over,, 

 more or less critically, the Museum's collections, including the 

 S. H. Scudder series, of Forficulidae (earwigs) and Blattidae 

 (roaches) . 



Dr. G. M. Allen's services were secured for three days each week 

 for nine months and were given chiefly to the mammalian osteo- 

 logical collection. All the skeletal parts of the orders Primates, 

 Chiroptera, Insectivora, Carnivora, and Rodentia have been iden- 

 tified, catalogued, labeled, and arranged by Dr. Allen, who has 

 also studied critically the entire series of the Chiroptera. Notes on 

 some of the more interesting forms, with descriptions of five new 

 ones, have been published (Bull. M. C. Z., vol. 52, no. 3) as a re- 

 sult of Dr. Allen's work. 



The Museum is indebted to Messrs. Faxon, Brewster, Wood- 

 worth, Bangs, and Bigelow for their interest in the collections 

 entrusted to their care, and also to Mr. R. W. Sayles, who makes 

 his first Report as Assistant in charge of the Geological Collections 

 open to the Public. 



Of the more important additions to the collections on exhibition 

 made during the year, mention may be made of the four massive 

 corals from the Great Barrier Reef of Australia, which are shown 

 in a new floor case next the Bora Bora model in the room devoted 

 to the systematic collection of polyps. These specimens are a 

 part of the fine series made some years ago by the late Prof. H. A. 

 Ward and given to the Museum by Mr. Agassiz. It is proposed 

 to exhibit other specimens of Australian reef-building corals from, 

 this same source, in the adjacent wall case. 



