MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 



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Hills, South Dakota. In April, 1906, he went to Naples on 

 behalf of Mr. Alexander Agassiz, to make notes and collections 

 at the scene of the recent eruption of Vesuvius. September 1, 

 1906, Dr. Jaggar resigned his assistant professorship. 



The subcommittees of the Department present the following 

 reports : — 



The Committee on The Gardner Collection of Photographs 

 (Messrs. Ward and Woodworth) report as follows : — 



State of the Collection, July 1. 



Photographs. 



Slides. 



Negatives. 



Accessions since last report .... 

 Condemned 



47 



253 



144 









 5701 

 5629 



433 

 30 



51 











4741 



5056 



99 

 

 

 

 

 

 1236 



Number now in collection .... 



The accessions include a set of films and lantern slides repre- 

 senting views in Montana taken by J. B. Woodworth, a series of 

 photographs from New Zealand brought to the Department by 

 Professor Davis, lantern slides purchased of the Palestine Explo- 

 ration Society, and several gifts of isolated photographs. Mr. 

 Charles M. Farnham was employed at intervals during the year 

 in renovating the slides. Mr. Farnham made considerable prog- 

 ress in the numbering of the negatives and films ; but owing to 

 the lack of the necessary assistance the usual cataloguing of new 

 views was not maintained. The regular duties of the present 

 teaching staff of the Department preclude giving the necessary 

 time to this work. A person with the requisite knowledge of 

 geography and geology to insure the correct description and cata- 

 loguing of the rich materials annually brought to this collection 

 is a pressing need of the Department. 



The Committee on the Geological Museum (Messrs. Wood- 

 worth, Wolff, and Jaggar) report that through the generous in- 

 terest of Mr. R. W. Sayles, the Corporation received the gift 

 of five thousand dollars, the income of which is " preferably to 

 be devoted to the acquisition, preparation, and maintenance, of 

 collections suitable for a museum of geology and geography." 

 It should be stated that the Museum stands in immediate need 

 of several thousand dollars for the construction of exhibition 



