20 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



REPORT ON COURSES IN GENERAL GEOLOGY 

 AND PALAEONTOLOGY. 



By Professor N. S. Shaler. 



During the past year Mr. Shaler has been compelled to devote 

 a large share of his time to administrative tasks connected with 

 scientific and academic work outside of the department, in ad- 

 dition to his duties as Professor of Geology. As Dean of the 

 Scientific School, Chairman of the Committee on the Summer 

 School, President of the American Geological Society, and member 

 of the Massachusetts Highway Commission, he has been called on 

 to do a considerable amount of executive labor. The result of this 

 is shown in the small amount of publication which he has made. 

 In addition to the few papers noted in the list, he has however 

 brought substantially to completion, with the assistance of Mr. 

 J. B. Wood worth and Dr. A. F. Foerste, a memoir long in hand 

 concerning the Narragansett Basin, which is to be published by 

 the U. S. Geological Survey. He has also sent in to the same 

 Survey a paper for the Annual Report of 1894-95, concerning 

 the Road Building Stones of Massachusetts. On this work he 

 has had the collaboration of Mr. L. W. Page. 



Mr. Dodge reports regarding the course in General Geology sub- 

 stantially as follows. During the past year, extensive additions 

 have been made to the laboratory materials for students' use and 

 for reference, by gift, by personal collection, and by purchase. 

 Among the gifts, should be mentioned a number of stalactites, 

 concretions, and friable sandstone, from Prof. J. A. Merrill, of the 

 State Normal School, Warrensburg, Mo. ; and twenty geological 

 maps from Dr. C. Willard Hayes, U. S. Geological Survey. All 

 specimens for students' use have been procured in sets of fifty, 

 each set being numbered alike. All the collections, old and new, 

 have been numbered and catalogued, following the system em- 

 ployed by Dr. Jackson in the palasontological collections. While 

 the teaching collections have thus been placed in good condition, 

 large table specimens for class illustration are still needed ; and 



