MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 15 



REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND 



GEOGRAPHY. 



Bt Jay B. Woodwoeth. 



With profound regret I record the death on the 10th of April, 

 1906, of Professor Shaler, the organizer and long-time senior 

 professor as well as guiding spirit of this Department. His re- 

 mains were interred in Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, near 

 those of him whom he called his Master, Louis Agassiz. The 

 annual reports of the Museum of Comparative Zoology afford the 

 most satisfactory though incomplete list of Professor Shaler's 

 literary and scientific writings. 



The following report is upon the work of the staff of the Geo- 

 logical Section of the University Museum for the year 1905-06 

 exclusive of that of the Sturgis-Hooper Professor of Geology. 



The accompanying table shows the number of students attend- 

 ing the several courses given by the Department. In estimating 

 the resort to the Museum the number of students taking Courses 

 10 and 206, given in the Rotch Building, should be deducted, and 

 students in Mining 28, conducted in the Advanced Geological 

 Laboratory should be added. 



Students of Radcliffe College completed elementary courses in 

 the laboratories of the Department, as follows: Course A, 7 

 students ; Course B, 4 ; Course 5a, equivalent to Geology 4 of old 

 plan, 28 ; Course 56, equivalent to Geology 5, old plan, 9. It has 

 been arranged to conduct the Radcliffe courses in Geology 4 and 5 

 upon the same plan as these courses in Harvard University next 

 year. 



During the first half of the year, Professor Shaler gave as usual 

 his lectures on Dynamical and Structural Geology to the class in 

 Course 4, and as well his lectures on Palaeontology in Course 14. 

 He began a course known as Comparative Geology (23 of the 

 list), which, however, he was unable to complete. In its offering 

 of courses for 1906-07 the Department decided to withdraw 

 Courses 23 and 14 in Palaeontology. Professor Shaler was 

 assisted in Geology 4 by Dr. P. S. Smith ; in Course 14 by Mr. 



