4 ANNUAL KEPOKT OF THE 



scum the Edward A. and Outram Bangs collection of American 

 mammals. 



In the Academic year 1906-1907 twelve courses in Zoology 

 were given by Professors Mark, Parker, Jackson, Castle, and Dr. 

 Rand to two hundred and seventy students in Harvard Uni- 

 versity, and five courses were given to thirty-three students of 

 Radcliffe College. The Assistants in the University courses were 

 Messrs. A. M. Banta, H. B. Bigelow, W. S. Burgess, E. D. Cong- 

 don, H. S. Davis, C. 0. Esterly, J. A. Long, F. F. Marshall, R. C. 

 Mullenix, and W. E. Wing. 



Mr. Manton Copeland assisted in two of the courses given in 

 Radcliffe College. 



Five students, while at work at the Bermuda Biological Station 

 for Research, received aid from the Humboldt fund. 



The instruction in the Department of Geology and Geography 

 was given by Professors Davis, Jackson, Ward, Wood worth, 

 Johnson, and Dr. Mansfield, assisted by Messrs. J. W. Eggleston, 

 F. H. Lahee, H. E. Merwin, E. J. Saunders, and F. H. Sawyer ; 

 eighteen courses were given to three hundred and seventeen 

 students of Harvard University, and four courses to twenty-five 

 students in Radcliffe College. 



Mr. F. H. Lahee held the Josiah D wight Whitney scholarship 

 for the year. 



In December, 1906, the Faculty appointed Mr. R. W. Sayles 

 Assistant in charge of the exhibition collections in the Geological 

 section of the Museum. 



To Mr. Agassiz the Museum is indebted for a model of Bora 

 Bora, a masterly piece of workmanship by Mr. George Carroll 

 Curtis. In November, 1899, while exploring the Tropical Pacific, 

 Mr. Agassiz visited Bora Bora, the most striking of the Society 

 Islands, and an excellent type of the structure and mode of for- 

 mation of the coral reefs of the group. At the instance of 

 Mr. Agassiz, Mr. Curtis went to Bora Bora in 1904, spending 

 several months there, and from personal surveys and sound- 

 ings, supplemented by other accessible data, executed this model. 

 Bora Bora is approximately five by three miles in diameter ; its cen- 

 tral volcanic peak rising to a height of over 2,500 feet and sur- 

 rounded by a wide lagoon, the wide barrier-reef flat, the narrow 

 fringing reef, and the steep sea slope, are all w r ell brought out by 

 Mr. Curtis. The scale employed is 1-3,600. With the eye at sea 

 level, the natural elevation is obtained. 



