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be added the names of several teachers and investigators who, although 

 their scientific education has not been wholly received at the Museum 

 of Comparative Zoology, have studied there for a longer or shorter 

 Time under the direction of Professor Agassiz. Such are Mr. Cyrus 

 Warren now Professor of Chemistry in the Technological Institute, 

 Professor Kerr, Superintendent of the Geological Survey of North 

 Carolina, Professor Chandler of the Mining School of New York, 

 Mr. Wing, Professor of Chemistry in Cornell University. Professor 

 Elder of Acadia College, Nova Scotia, Professor Dimond, Fish Com- 

 missioner of New Hampshire, Professor Hills of Dennison College, 

 Ohio, etc., were also pupils of the Museum under Professor Shaler, — 

 not to mention many others who have been for a shorter time con- 

 nected with the Institution. Many of the most efficient officers and 

 assistants of the Museum itself are men who owe to it their scien- 

 tific education, as Professor N. S. Shaler, Mr. Theodore Lyman, Mr. 

 Alexander Agassiz, Mr. J. A. Allen, and others. There are sad 

 blanks in these lists; names of young men who would, no doubt, have 

 been life-long friends and efficient co-workers in the Institution. Such 

 were Bowditch and ShurtlefF, promising students who left their scientific 

 work for a higher duty, and died in the war; and since then, Dr. 

 Wheatland and the younger Horace Mann, two of its most valuable 

 assistants, have also passed away. 



These were all men trained as special students ; but Professor Agas- 

 siz has constantly had in view a more general educational scheme. 

 With this aim he has amassed duplicate specimens from every branch 

 of the animal kingdom in such numbers as would enable him not only 

 to enter upon the largest system of exchanges with all existing muse- 

 ums, but to make distinct systematic collections for the purpose of 

 teaching, and prepare for the use of young and inexperienced students a 

 series of specimens such as even well-trained and competent naturalists 

 would be glad to obtain for study. It is to this wealth of material, not 

 to be found even in the first museums of Europe, that he looks as af- 

 fording the means of ever-increasing usefulness to the Institution. Up 

 to the present year, while a certain number of students have always 

 been trained in the laboratories, and lectures on Geology, Zoology, and 

 Palaeontology, with free attendance for all, have been constantly given 

 in the lecture-room of the Museum, it has been difficult to organize 

 large classes of students for private instruction on account of the want 

 of room. Notwithstanding this difficulty, which still remains as great 

 as ever, by a certain ingenuity in the arrangements, and by sacrificing 

 a large part of the lecture-room, space has been cleared this year for 



