6 A.NNUAL REPORT OF THE 



Under the direction of Mr. Henshaw the library is undergoing 

 a thorough overhauling with a view to filling gaps in the serials. 

 The geological serials which were divided between the Whitney 

 and General Museum libraries have been combined, as well as the 

 reports of government surveys, and have been alphabetically ar- 

 ranged according to countries. The library has received about 

 the usual number of accessions. 



The publications of the Museum during the past year have been 

 more than the average number. Fourteen numbers of the " Bul- 

 letin " have appeared, with 683 pages and 174 plates, and two 

 numbers of the " Memoirs " with 574 pages and 121 plates. One 

 report on the explorations of the " Blake " (No. XXXVIII.), that 

 of Professors Bouvier and Fischer (Bull., Vol. XXXII., No. 10), 

 has appeared, and two reports (Nos. XXV. and XXVI.) on the 

 results of the "Albatross" expedition of 1891, that on the Ophi- 

 uridse by Professor Lutken and Dr. Mortensen (Mem., Vol.XXIIL, 

 No. 2), and Mr. Garman's splendid report on the Fishes (Mem., 

 Vol. XXIV.). Six numbers of the "Bulletin " represent Contri- 

 butions from the Zoological Laboratory under the direction of Dr. 

 Mark, and one from Mr. Agassiz's Marine Laboratory at New- 

 port. Volumes XXXVL, XXXVII., and XXXVIII. of the " Bul- 

 letin " and Volumes XXV. and XXVI. of the " Memoirs " are in 

 course of publication. 



The crowded condition of the Natural History Laboratories in- 

 cident upon the increasing number of students has for some time 

 past hampered the departments of Zoology, Geology, and Geogra- 

 phy, and hindered their growth and development. Through the 

 generosity of Mr. Agassiz, Mr. and Mrs. Quincy A. Shaw, and 

 Mrs. Henry L. Higginson, the southwest corner of the University 

 Museum is soon to be built, and this addition will complete the 

 main or eastern fagade of the great building planned by the late 

 Professor Agassiz and leave unfinished but one hundred feet of 

 the southern wing to realize the entire plan. The new building 

 will accommodate the departments of Geology and Geography, 

 providing them with numerous lecture rooms, laboratories, and 

 shops, and three exhibition rooms, which will connect through the 

 mineralogical museum with the system of exhibition rooms of the 

 entire building. The laboratories and lecture rooms now occupied 



