Dr. Fewkes, have all spent considerable time in supplying 

 material and information to special students in their various 

 departments. A number of students interested in Marine In- 

 vertebrates accompanied Dr. Fewkes on several dredging excur- 

 sions. The lectures he had been accustomed to give, however, 

 were not continued during the past year. It would be an ad- 

 vantage to the students of Natural History if the special and 

 exact knowledge of the Museum Assistants could be made 

 available in the way of lectures or informal instruction as a 

 part of their course of study. 



In my last Report I called attention to the want of Laboratory 

 room in the Museum building, and to the great need of an ad- 

 ditional section of the building to meet the requirements of the 

 large classes in all departments of Natural History. The Geo- 

 logical and Palseontological Laboratories ought to be supple- 

 mented by properly equipped rooms for Lithology and Geography, 

 as well as by small exhibition rooms devoted to those subjects, 

 to form a part of the general exhibition scheme of the University 

 Museum. Another large Lecture-room is absolutely necessary, 

 and an additional section of the Museum building would merely 

 place the Geological and Geographical Departments on the same 

 footing as Zoology and Palaeontology. 



Thanks to the efforts of Professor Goodale, a sum sufficiently 

 large for the erection of a section of the University Museum has 

 been secured. It will be devoted to the Botanical Laboratories 

 and the Botanical Museum, which will be connected with the 

 other Exhibition Rooms of the University Museum and of the 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology. The Cryptogamic Labora- 

 tory, which has for some years been sheltered in the Zoological 

 Laboratory and work-rooms, would give us additional space in 

 that department. It is, however, very important that the sec- 

 tion needed for Geology and Geography should adjoin the pres- 

 ent University Laboratories, and that the Botanical Department 

 should follow next, in order to retain in the Exhibition Rooms 

 the sequence most natural for a public exhibit. 



The new staircase erected to facilitate the access of the pub- 

 lic to the Exhibition Rooms has been completed, and serves the 

 purpose for which it was planned. 



Important additions have been made in the equipment of all 

 our Laboratories, materially increasing their efficiency. 



