22 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY 

 AND GEOGRAPHY. 



By Robert DeC. Ward. 



The Department has had a successful year in its teaching, its 

 general activities, and in the gifts which have been received. The 

 omission of the courses in Palaeontology is, however, a serious 

 handicap to the work of the Department. Messrs. J. W. Eggle- 

 ston, W. P. Haynes, F. H. Lahee, W. G. Reed, Jr., S. Smith, and 

 B. M. Varney were assistants during the year. 



Mention was made in last year's Report of the welcome anony- 

 mous gift of $5,000. towards the maintenance of a summer field 

 course in geology in the western mountain region of North Amer- 

 ica. This gift has been increased to $10,000., the donor being 

 Mr. Robert Wilcox Sayles, of the Class of 1901. The income of 

 the fund puts the western summer course upon a permanent basis 

 and releases the funds which of late years have been devoted to 

 this course. The gift is one of the most useful which this Depart- 

 ment has ever received. Mr. Sayles further gave the sum of 

 $350., for current expenses of this course in 1910. Another wel- 

 come gift, of $300., was received from Mrs. W. S. Fitz, Mrs. H. S. 

 Grew, and Mrs. Edward Wigglesworth, for a wall case, which 

 has been installed in the Geological Museum, and is used for the 

 permanent exhibition of photographs from the Gardner Collection. 

 It has hitherto been impossible to make adequate public exhibition 

 of the valuable materials belonging to this Collection. Mr. 

 Edward Wigglesworth was appointed Curator of the Gardner 

 Collection at the beginning of the year, and has given a great 

 deal of time, with the assistance of Mr. G. M. Flint, to cataloguing, 

 systematizing, and extending the Collection, which can now be 

 much more effectively used than ever before. The activity and 

 the support of the new Curator of this Collection have been of 

 great help to the Department. 



