MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 



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The state of the Gardner Collection on July 1, 1910, is shown in 

 the subjoined table: — 



State of Collection, July 1. 



Photographs. 



Slides. 



Negatives. 



Accessions since last report 



338 



743 







Unidentified views 



150 







155 



Duplicates 



116 











Broken 















Condemned 



29 



6 







Last accession number 



6322 



6223 







Number now in collection 



6211 



631 1 1 



836 2 



Card catalogued 







6311 







The principal additions were as follows: — 89 slides of the 

 Italian Riviera made from negatives of Prof. W. M. Davis; 48 

 slides of fossils and restorations, secured through Prof. W. M. 

 Davis; 33 slides of the Canadian Rockies, the gift of Mr. R. W. 

 Sayles; 70 Japanese slides, the gift of Mr. E. G. Stillman through 

 Mr. Sayles; 110 Asiatic slides from negatives of Dr. E. Hunting- 

 ton, and 22 unmounted photographs of volcanoes and South 

 American views, purchased and presented to the collection by 

 Mr. E. Wigglesworth. Ten large photographs were framed and 

 put on exhibition. 



During the afternoons of two weeks in January, 1910, the 

 Harvard Seismographic Station and the Students' Meteoro- 

 logical Observatory were opened to officers and students of the 

 University. The working of the instruments was explained by 

 members of the Department to a considerable number of visitors. 

 At the same time there was a public exhibition of the new model 

 of the temperatures of Boston, the construction of which was 

 mentioned in last year's Report, and also of a selected series of 

 photographs of New Zealand scenery from the Gardner Collection. 



The sub-committee on the Josiah Dwight Whitney Scholarship 

 reports that S100. was awarded to Donald C. Barton, and $100. 

 to Joseph Murdoch, both members of the Junior Class and stu- 

 dents in the Rocky Mountain summer course, and that the balance 

 of the income was placed at the disposal of Professor Davis to 



1 Includes 88 meteorological slides numbered in advance. 



2 Decrease since last Report due to removal of sets belonging to Geological Labo- 

 ratory and to a general working over of the collection. 



