10 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



Mr. C. W. Wood worth has completed an extensive work on " The 

 Wing Veins of Insects." He returns next year to the chair of 

 Entomology in the University of California. Mr. Willard has 

 assumed for next year the duties of the professor of biology in 

 Grinnell (Iowa) College, who goes abroad for a year's study. 



In June, 1901, the degree of Doctor of Philosophy was conferred 

 upon the three following candidates in Zoology: Mr. Maurice 

 Alphens Bigelow, whose thesis was entitled " The Early Develop- 

 ment of Lepas, a Study of Cell Lineage and Germ Layers ;" Mr. 

 Robert William Hall, thesis, u The Development of the Meso- 

 nephros and the Mullerian Ducts in Amphibia ; " and Mr. Reuben 

 Myron Strong, thesis, " The Development of Color in the Defini- 

 tive Feather." Dr. Bigelow holds the position of Instructor in 

 Biology in the Teachers' College, Columbia University, and Dr. 

 Hall that of Assistant in Biology in Yale University. Dr. Strong 

 takes a position in the Chicago University Academy, Morgan 

 Park, 111. 



Dr. Charles W. Prentiss has been appointed, upon the recom- 

 mendation of the Division of Biology, to a Parker Fellowship for 

 the year 1901-02, and has already sailed for Europe, where he 

 will pursue zoological investigations. 



The income of the Virginia Barret Gibbs Scholarship for 1900- 

 01 was divided between two students, Mr. Frederic W. Car- 

 penter and Mr. Julius M. Johnson, both registered in the Graduate 

 School. Thirteen persons, instructors and advanced students, 

 have availed themselves of the opportunity for study afforded by 

 the Laboratory of the U. S. Fish Commission at Wood's Hole. Of 

 these, nine have received aid from the income of the Humboldt 

 Fund. 



The meetings of the Zoological Club were held as usual through- 

 out the year from 4.30 to 6 o'clock, but on Friday afternoons 

 instead of Thursday, as in the preceding year. 



Since the last report was made, Contributions Nos. 113-125 have 

 been published. Appended is a list of — 



Contributions from the Zoological Laboratory for the Academic Year 



1900-01. 



113. Bowers, Mart A. — Peripheral Distribution of the Cranial 

 Nerves of Spelerpes bilineatus. Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts and Sci- 

 ences, Vol. 36, No. 11, pp. 177-193. 2 pis. October, 1900. 



