4 ANNUAL EEPORT OF THE 



accumulated a large amount of material relating to the Marine 

 Fauna of Narragansett Bay, which should be prepared for publi- 

 cation. The available room of the Laboratory will be required by 

 the special Assistants who will aid me in this work, so that some 

 other arrangement must be made to provide the facilities formerly 

 furnished at Newport. 



The Museum will now have at its command, for the use of its 

 Assistants or other persons, the two tables at the Laboratory of the 

 United States Fish Commission at Wood's Hole, to which it is 

 entitled as one of the subscribers to the fund to establish the Com- 

 mission Laboratory at Wood's Hole. One of the Museum Assist- 

 ants and one student were admitted this year by Commander Brice 

 to the Laboratory of the United States Fish Commission. The 

 income of the Virginia Barret Gibbs Scholarship was assigned 

 according to the terms of the gift. 



Professor Faxon reports that he has completed the arrangement 

 of the collection of recent Mollusca, undertaken in 1893. The 

 collection of dried shells is now easily accessible, and in a state 

 of permanent safety. It is contained in over 1,700 large stan- 

 dard wooden trays, and the bottles of the alcoholic collection, 

 independently of the larger specimens contained in copper cans, 

 fill about 100 trays. This of course does not include the Faunal or 

 Systematic series of mounted specimens in the Exhibition Rooms. 



Messrs. Henshaw, G-arman, and Brewster report that the col- 

 lections in their care are in excellent condition. Mr. Henshaw 

 has devoted his time to the rearrangement of certain parts of our 

 entomological collection, and to assisting those persons who have 

 had occasion to consult the collection. He has also prepared for 

 exhibition a collection of Galls, which has been placed in the 

 Botanical Section of the Museum. In his report will be found 

 a list of the additions to the Entomological Department. 



The Exhibition Rooms have remained much as they were at the 

 time of the last Report. A few specimens have here and there been 

 intercalated to supply deficiencies, and poor specimens have been 

 eliminated or better mounted. 



Dr. Woodworth has been making some experiments with a view 

 to improving the exhibition of alcoholic specimens. It is hoped 

 to begin with the Synoptic and Atlantic Rooms, and substitute 

 more artistically mounted alcoholic specimens for those now on 

 exhibition. 



