MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. [May, 



[A.] 

 KEPORT OF THE DIRECTOR 



OF THE 



MUSEUM OF COMPAEATIVE ZOOLOGY, 



For the Year 1870. 



Although, in consequence of protracted illness, I have been 

 unable for most of the time to attend to my duties as Director 

 since I presented my last Report, the Museum has nevertheless 

 progressed with regularity in its onward course. This is chiefly 

 owing to the fact that the organization of our institution is 

 steadily acquiring more stability through experience. We have 

 now an increased number of assistants, are better able to appre- 

 ciate our own wants and resources, and enjoy an enlarged 

 intercourse with other similar establishments. Our prosperity, 

 and especially the system with which the business details of 

 the establishment have been conducted, are in no small degree 

 due to the disinterested devotion of Mr. T. G. Cary, who for 

 nearly two years has attended day by day to the management of 

 our ever-increasing affairs. I rejoice the more over this state of 

 things, as it shows that with every year the progress of the 

 Museum is less dependent upon my personal attendance, and 

 therefore likely to go on as well as before, when I can no longer 

 take care of it. 



One of the characteristic features of the organization of the 

 Museum is that all its officers are expected to work seven hours 

 a day, purely for the good of the institution ; no outside work, 



