72 MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. [Feb. 



In the month of October last, the Committee on the Museum 

 reported : " That during the past year, a great amount of im- 

 portant work has been done at the Museum. It has consisted 

 chiefly in overhauling thoroughly the whole collection, every 

 specimen of which is reported by the Director of the Museum to 

 be in a safe condition, in which it may remain uninjured for an 

 indefinite time. The main purpose, therefore, for which the last 

 liberal grant of the Legislature was made is fulfilled. 



" Besides this, however, the specimens have all been distributed 

 according to their classes and families, and made accessible for 

 investigation and for teaching ; and the separation of the dupli- 

 cates has been begun, and is well advanced, so that exchanges 

 are making, and will continue to-be made, to the great increase 

 and advantage of the institution, and of the interests of science 

 in this Commonwealth and out of it. 



" Your Committee therefore report that the Museum is in ex- 

 cellent order, and in condition — - so far as the building affords 

 room to display and open its specimens — to fulfil the great pur- 

 poses for which it has been founded and endowed by public and 

 private munificence." 



The third Annual Report of the Director, which is annexed, 

 marked [A], gives a detailed statement of the operations at the 

 Museum for the year. 



The statement annexed, marked [B], contains a list of the 

 names of trustees, officers, and members of the. standing commit- 

 tees for the year 1862. 



On behalf and in the name of the Trustees, 



WILLIAM GRAY, Secretary. 



