Woodworth, Davenport, Smith, Ward, Nickerson, and Lucas spent 

 some time at the Newport Laboratory, either collecting material 

 for future investigation, or carrying on special work on the embry- 

 ology of Annelids, Bryozoa, and Acalephs. Mr. Woodworth also 

 passed a few days at Newport before the opening of the season in 

 putting the Laboratory in order for work. 



We have to thank Colonel Marshall McDonald, United States 

 Fish Commissioner, for facilities granted our students in connec- 

 tion with their work, by the Fish Commission Station at Wood's 

 Holl. 



There have been no changes in the Exhibition Rooms beyond the 

 additions made to fill gaps existing in our series. The collections 

 open to the public remain in a satisfactory condition, and the in- 

 terest in the exhibit does not appear to diminish, judging from the 

 constantly increasing number of visitors. 



The Pacific Room is little by little preparing for exhibition, 

 and I hope to open it to the public as soon as we can make a 

 reasonably interesting exhibit of the fauna of some of its groups 

 of islands. We have been for some time accumulating collec- 

 tions from the Sandwich Islands, the Galapagos, and the Feejee 

 Islands. 



The most important addition to our Exhibition Rooms has been 

 the mounted skeleton of the fine Sperm Whale obtained through 

 Professor Ward, mentioned in my last Report. This skeleton has 

 been suspended from the roof of the large Exhibition Room de- 

 voted to the Systematic Collection of Vertebrates, and finds its 

 place naturally by the side of the two other large skeletons of 

 whales similarly placed. * 



The magnificent series of Pampas Fossils obtained by Professor 

 Ward have been mounted by him, and safely moved to Cambridge 

 from Rochester. They occupy a part of the central floor space of 

 the rooms devoted to the Tertiary Faunae. A few other speci- 

 mens of extinct Vertebrates have been moved to the same rooms, 

 so that as soon as the specimens are labelled it will be possible to 

 open two of the Palaeontological Exhibition Rooms to the public. 

 They will, however, contain at first only a small part of the collec- 

 tions they are intended to house. 



It will be seen from the special Reports of the Assistants, 

 that the collections of the Museum continue in good condition. 

 Owing to Dr. Hagen's prolonged ill-health, he lias been able to 



