completed, and I have made good progress in the preparation of 

 my Monograph on Calamocrinus, of which twent}^ plates have 

 been completed. 



The accessions to the Library show a decided increase in num- 

 ber even over the past year, which had shown the greatest 

 accessions thus far received. 



Special efforts having been made to interest the Visiting Com- 

 mittees of the Overseers in the affairs of the different depart- 

 ments of the University, I herewith add the Report which was 

 prepared for the Committee on the University Museum. 



" When Professor Goodale succeeded ia obtaining the neces- 

 sary funds for an extension of the University Museum in order 

 to accommodate the Botanical Department, it became necessary 

 that the Museum of Comparative Zoology should obtain means 

 for building a section to connect the Natural History Labora- 

 tories with the Botanical Section. 



"All attempts to obtain this from outside sources having failed, 

 the Curator applied to the Corporation to advance the funds 

 needed for the building and its equipment, so as to make it 

 available for the Petrographical, Geographical, and Geological 

 Departments. This the Corporation has done, and, as on former 

 occasions, these advances, amounting to about $25,000, will have 

 to be repaid from the income of the Museum. This will natu- 

 rally cripple our resources for six or seven years, unless the sum 

 can be provided for the Museum by the friends of the Geological 

 Department. The Geological Section, now finished, completes 

 the plan of the Laboratories for the Zoological, Geological, and 

 Geographical Departments, and we are now well provided with 

 Laboratories, though their equipment still leaves a good deal to 

 be desired, as also in the way of models for the Geographical and 

 Geological Departments, and in the fitting up of the Vivarium 

 and Aquarium for the Zoological Department. For these objects 

 an additional $8,000 is required. Ample room is now provided 

 for the exhibition of everything that is likely to interest the 

 public, and this space need never be enlarged, while the efficiency 

 of the exhibit can always be improved by culling out poor speci- 

 mens and replacing them by better or more interesting types. 

 Of course the University may, in the course of time, outgrow the 

 Laboratories, but there is ample room for their expansion in the 

 corner piece which is eventually to connect the main building of 



