b ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



logued. In speaking of the Library, I must here again call atten- 

 tion to its increasing demands upon the general funds of the 

 Museum for its maintenance in the interests of the students of 

 the University and Radcliffe College. Library funds are much 

 needed for books, binding, and salaries. 



The Museum publications of the year include thirteen numbers 

 of the " Bulletin," with 749 pages and 48 plates, and two numbers of 

 the "Memoirs," with 457 pages and 241 plates, — an increase 

 of 402 pages and 173 plates as compared with the publications of 

 last year. The two " Memoirs" are reports on the Results of Mr. 

 Agassiz's Tropical Pacific Expedition (Nos. IV. and V.). Two 

 numbers of the "Bulletin" are upon geological results of Mr. 

 Agassiz's Fiji Expedition, and one upon his expedition to the Mal- 

 dive Islands. Volumes XXXIX., XLI., XLII., XLIIL, XLY. of 

 the " Bulletin," and XXV., XXVL, XXVII., XXIX., and XXX. 

 of the " Memoirs " are now in course of publication. 



A gift of particular interest is an early oil portrait of Professor 

 Louis Agassiz, the founder of the Museum, presented by Captain 

 C. H. Davis, U. S. N. (see [F], page 35). There has been hung in 

 the hall of the main entrance a portrait of Mr. Agassiz by Lefebvre, 

 a bronze tablet under which bears this inscription: — Alexander 

 Agassiz. This memorial of his great services to Science and the 

 University given by his friends and placed here by special vote of 

 the President and Felloivs and Board of Overseers, — a welcome 

 and fitting gift, a proper tribute. A portrait of the late Sturgis- 

 Hooper Professor of Geology, Josiah D wight Whitney, by De Camp, 

 lias been presented by his family and hangs in the main room of 

 the geological library. The Museum now possesses more than 

 two hundred and fifty framed portraits of distinguished zoologists 

 and o-eolo<nsts, and manv more that have not been hung in the 

 rooms of the library and offices. From Sella and Dr. Fritz 

 Benesch of Vienna has been received an important collection of 

 photographs of the Dolomite region. 



W. McM. WOODWORTH, 



Keeper of the Museum. 





