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The other room, the west one (No. 6), was assigned as a private 

 laboratory to Doctors Davenport, Parker, Woodworth, and Mayer. 

 Zoology 1 was conducted by Dr. Davenport, substantially as last 

 year. The Chief Assistant was Mr. H. R. Linville, the same as in 

 the preceding year. Messrs. F. C. Lucas, W. J. Moenkhaus, S. R. 

 Williams, and A. S. Hanna were Sub-Assistants. 



In Zoology 2 the Department was also fortunate enough to have 

 the services as Chief Assistant of the same person who had been 

 Chief Assistant in the preceding year, Mr. J. I. Hamaker. The 

 Sub-Assistant was Mr. R. W. Hall. The course was conducted 

 by Dr. Parker without essential change from the plan of previous 

 years. 



A considerable increase in the number of students taking Zool- 

 ogy 3 caused the laboratory facilities to be taxed to their utmost. 

 Any further increase in numbers would have to be met by increas- 

 ing the number of days on which laboratory work might be done, 

 and probably also by restricting the special topic work to those best 

 qualified to profit by it. The course was conducted by Dr. Parker, 

 who had as Assistants Messrs. J. H. Hathaway and R. W. Hall. 

 The paper by Mr. Waite prepared in this course last year is now 

 in press. 



The lectures in Zoology 4 and 5 were given in the new room on 

 the second floor ; the laboratory work was done as usual in room 

 No. 2 on the fourth floor. Dr. Woodworth conducted the laboratory 

 work in both these courses, and gave a portion of the lectures in 

 Course 4. The ground covered in the lectures and the material 

 used in the laboratory work were substantially the same as in 

 previous years. The courses were given as in previous years by 

 Drs. Mark and Woodworth. 



In Zoology 11, by Dr. Davenport, there were lectures through- 

 out the year on phylogenetic problems. A separate topic was 

 assigned to each of the ten students for special study. The results 

 of some of these studies, though not yet in final shape, will be 

 ready for publication before long. The laboratory work was mostly 

 done in Room 5, Floor 2, the room assigned to students in Zool- 

 ogy 20a. This arrangement, so far as concerns the supervision 

 of the work in this course, was an improvement on that of the 

 previous year ; but it is always undesirable to have the same table 

 used for two kinds of work under the supervision of different 

 instructors. But besides this, there is urgent need of rooms prop- 



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