12 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



Brooklyn Institute at Cold Spring Harbor, L. I., N. Y., to the super- 

 vision of which he gave a considerable part of the summer vaca- 

 tion. Dr. Parker published in the Museum Bulletin an article 

 which appears as No. 100 of the Contributions and jointly with 

 a student of Radcliffe College another which constitutes No. 101 

 of the same series. A brief account of Branchiocerianthus was 

 presented to one of the Sections of the Fourth International 

 Congress of Zoology, at Cambridge, England, by Professor Mark, 

 and is printed in the Proceedings of the Congress ; and a note, 

 entitled '"Branchiocerianthus,' a Correction," was later pub- 

 lished in the Zoologischer Anzeiger. While the general super- 

 vision of the Contributions remained with Professor Mark, much 

 of the burden of looking after details connected with the re- 

 production of plates, etc., was borne by Dr. Parker. A list of 

 the Contributions published since July, 1898, is appended to these 

 reports. 



The Virginia Barret Gibbs Scholarship was held by Mr. Maurice 

 A. Bigelow, who received at the end of the year an appointment in 

 the Teachers' College, Columbia University. One of the Parker 

 Fellowships was granted by the Corporation to Dr. F. W. Ban- 

 croft, who studied at the University of Berlin and at the Naples 

 Zoological Station. 



During the summer of 1899 nine persons received aid from the 

 income of the Humboldt Fund while carrying on studies at the 

 U. S. Fish Commission Laboratory, Wood's Hole. 



The meetings of the Zoological Club were held, as in 1897-98, 

 at 4.30 p. M. on Thursday, and were well attended. 



Toward the close of the year 1897-98 plans were made for re- 

 placing the temporary wooden supports of the paraffine water- 

 baths used in the laboratories by more permanent shelves made of 

 slate and supported by iron brackets. This improvement was 

 carried out in the summer of 1898. To decrease further the risk 

 from fire a large slab of thick slate-stone was also placed on the floor 

 beneath each water bath. Although this was an expensive im- 

 provement, it was highly important, and the change has incident- 

 ally resulted in making the laboratory equipment more convenient. 



At the beginning of the College year 1899-1900 the Depart- 

 ment met with a serious loss by the resignation of Dr. C. B. 

 Davenport, whose thorough knowledge and untiring energy were 



