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may be added a statement of the work in a similar course by three 

 students of the Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women, 

 the subjects here studied being the Physical Geography of New 

 York, of New Jersey, and of Pennsylvania. 



The collections of the Laboratory of Physical Geography have 

 been materially enlarged during the past year. A pair of projecting 

 lanterns, purchased for the general use of the Geological Depart- 

 ment, has greatly improved the means of illustration in the lectures ; 

 and a beginning has been made towards a series of geographical 

 lantern slides. Especial effort is given to securing views charac- 

 teristic of our own physical geography, at present very poorly 

 represented in the collections of dealers. The laboratory collection 

 has been added to by numerous gifts, of which the following may 

 be mentioned : — 



Photographs and slides of Rocky Mountain views, from F. H. Chapin, 

 Esq., of Hartford, Conn. 



Photographs of Saxon Switzerland, from Mr. R. DeC. Ward, of Cam- 

 bridge. 



Photographs of scenery on the Canadian Pacific Railway, from the 

 Canadian Pacific Railway Company. 



Photographs of scenery of the New York Central and Hudson River 

 Railroad, from Hon. Chauncey M. Depew, President. 



Photographs of Clouds, from Professor Riggenbach-Burckhardt, of 

 Basel, Switzerland. 



Photographs of Clouds, from Captain D. Wilson-Barker, of London, 

 England. 



Topographical Maps, from the United States Geological Survey. 



The Laboratory collection will be soon extended by a number of 

 important maps, already ordered from samples seen in the 

 Geographical Exhibition of the Brooklyn Institute ; and a con- 

 siderable number of geographical text-books by various authors 

 have already been secured in preparation for the proposed course 

 for teachers, during the coming year. 



The materials here named, as well as those accumulated during 

 earlier years, are conveniently kept in the spacious Laboratory 

 storeroom, where cases and shelves have been prepared for them. 

 Among the most important of these materials is a complete set of 

 the weather maps of the United States Signal Service, from the 

 beginning of publication, for the most part in bound volumes, the 

 gift of the Chief Signal Officer several years ago. This set is 



