MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 15 



REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND 



GEOGRAPHY. 



By Reginald A. Daly. 



During the year, the permanent staff of the Department was 

 unchanged, but it was arranged that Professor Graton should 

 henceforth serve on a full-time basis as a member of this Depart- 

 ment primarily, his formal transfer from the Mining Department 

 being voted by the Corporation. This means that for the first 

 time economic geology is represented in the Harvard faculty by a 

 full professorship entirely devoted to this important general field, 

 though, of course, Prof. H. L. Smyth has long represented the 

 interests of the mining geology of iron ores. The rapid increase 

 in the number of students seeking advanced degrees in economic 

 geology has immediately shown the wisdom of the Corporation 

 in developing the Departmental activities on a side which has 

 been too long neglected. 



The assistants appointed for the year were: Drs. W. P. Haynes, 

 and Sidney Powers, and Messrs. L. B. R. Briggs, Jr., T. H. Clark, 

 D. H. McLaughlin, and Thorndike Saville. 



The total number of enrollments in the different courses at 

 Harvard, including summer field-courses, was 515 as against 482 

 in 1914-1915; the corresponding total for Radcliffe courses was 

 49, as against 78 in 1914-1915. The numbers enrolled in the 

 individual courses during 1915-1916 were as follows: 







Harvard 



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Harvard 



Radcliffe 



Geology 4 





127 



17 



Palaeontology 3 





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