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Faculty of the Museum of Comparative Zoology ; a few purchases 

 and additions of materials by gift have been made. The Museum 

 is indebted to Prof. W. 0. Crosby of the Massachusetts Insti- 

 tute of Technology for the gift of a suite of rocks and fossils, the 

 latter illustrating methods of fossilization. Specimens have also 

 been received from Professor Palache. The gift of a collection 

 of coral reef and phosphate rock from Ocean or Banaba Island, 

 lat. 52° S., long. 169° 53' E., Pacific Ocean, sent by Mr. Andrew 

 F. Hall of that island, is gratefully acknowledged. 



The Committee on the Josiah D wight Whitney Scholarship 

 (Professors Davis, Wolff, and Woodworth) recommended in June, 

 1907, that a scholarship of $200 be awarded to Mr. Frederick 

 Henry Lahee, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, a student in Harvard 

 College, for defraying his travelling expenses in Course S2 in 

 Montana in the summer of 1907. 



The annexed abstracts of the reports of the instructors set 

 forth the condition of the several laboratories. 



Prof. R. T. Jackson reports that Geology 11 was taken by 

 4 students ; Geology 15 by 3 students. 



The teaching collections are in good condition, and have been 

 materially increased and improved by the following specimens 

 selected and purchased by Professor Jackson: from Dr. F. 

 Krantz, 41 lots ; from R. F. Damon, 65 lots; from James Lomax, 

 78 microscopic slides ; also from the Boston Society of Natural 

 History, 70 specimens. 



In the April recess a party of instructors and students visited 

 Yorktown, Virginia, and secured an excellent representation from 

 the rich fossil beds of that locality. 



Professor Ward reports that the decrease in the number of 

 students in the elementary course in Meteorology (Geology B), 

 which was stated in last year's Report to be directly traceable 

 to the assignment of the lectures to a late afternoon hour, has 

 resulted, as was inevitable, in a falling off in the attendance of 

 students upon the intermediate courses in Meteorology and Cli- 

 matology. It does not appear wise, in the light of this experience, 

 to continue to give the lectures in the elementary course at 

 3.30 p. M., and the Department has therefore voted that they 

 shall hereafter come in the morning, as formerly. The students' 

 meteorological observatory, on the roof of the Geological section 

 of the Museum, has added greatly to the interest and value of 

 the work done in Geology B. A considerable number of photo- 



