38 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



REPORT ON THE GEOLOGICAL COLLECTION. 



By Robert W. Sayles. 



The subcommittee on the Geological Museum (Professors 

 Wood worth, Wolff, and Jackson) act as advisers to the Assistant; 

 the expenditure of the funds are determined by the Department 

 of Geology and Geography. 



One third of the income of the R. W. Sayles Fund ($5000 — ) 

 has been used for the purchase of specimens and two thirds for 

 shelves, brackets, and appliances. 



A series of photographs illustrating the eruption of Mt. Pelee, 

 purchased with the consent of the Committee on the Gardner 

 Collection, has been hung near the specimens from St. Pierre. 



The following additions are gratefully acknowledged: — from 

 Mr. C. R. Simpkins, an instructive series of lavas from Hawaii; 

 from Mr. A. W. Rogers, a collection of glacial pebbles from the 

 supposed Archean conglomerates of Griqualand; from Prof. 

 Charles White, a collection of calcareous growths from the shore 

 of the Pleistocene Lake Lahontan, near Hazen, Nevada; from 

 Prof. R. T. Jackson twenty specimens of fossils; from Prof. Charles 

 Palache, a modern travertine deposit made in a mine flume. 



The Assistant has given a large glacial erratic deeply eaten by 

 swamp waters, one of the so-called Anvil rocks from Providence, 

 R. I., and also a fragment of Stockbridge limestone, from the bed 

 of the Housatonic river at South Lee, Mass., showing a good river- 

 made pot hole. 



A catalogue has been begun and 350 specimens have been en- 

 tered. 



Two models, one of the Gulf of Mexico and the second of Mt. 

 Ktaadn, have been placed on exhibition; the former w r as received 

 some years ago from the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, the 

 latter was made in 1881 by Mr. C. E. Hamlin (see Bulletin M. 

 C. Z., 1881, vol. 7, no. 5). 



Printed labels for all the specimens in the case devoted to syn- 



