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the earliest convenient date a list of the views which experience in 

 the lecture room has shown to be serviceable in our system of in- 

 struction. The plan provides for the sale of the photographs and 

 lantern slides by some reputable dealer, so that the time of the 

 officers of the department will not be taken up by the business and 

 correspondence which may grow out of the undertaking. 



The Gardner Collection of Photographs. 



The selection and purchase of these views has been during the 

 year in the hands of a Department committee consisting of Pro- 

 fessor Davis and Messrs. Dodge and Wood worth. A number of 

 views mostly of European localities were added during the year. 

 There is now a total of over 2,100 photographs, most of which are 

 mounted on cardboard, labelled, and entered in a card catalogue, 

 and ready for service. At present the collection is stored in trays 

 in the Geological Lecture Room. 



Geological Exhibition Room. 



When the World's Fair Exposition closed, the Corporation 

 kindly turned over to this department a number of wall and table 

 cases which were used at Chicago for the display of the University 

 Exhibit. These, to the number of twenty-four, have been placed 

 in the Geological Exhibition Room on the third floor of the 

 Museum, but owing to a lack of means for repairing the cases the 

 Department has been unable to arrange its collections in them and 

 open the room to the public. It will cost about $800 to put the 

 room in order. 



Gifts and Purchases of Specimens. 



A few specimens of rocks and fossils have been donated to the 

 Department for use in its teaching collection during the year. 

 Two segments of a basaltic prism from the Giant's Causeway 

 were given by Prof. J. P. Cooke. A collection of rocks and clays 

 were obtained by the members of an expedition to Gay Head, 

 Mass., illustrating the stratigraphy of that section, and a few 

 specimens needed for illustrating Glacial Geology and for class- 

 room demonstration were gathered by Messrs. Woodworth and 



