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a small series of fossils especially designed for use in the elemen- 

 tary course would be useful in avoiding the present practice of 

 borrowing from the collections primarily intended for the palaeon- 

 tological courses. A clinometer-compass was designed especially 

 for the use of students in their field-work ; it is now made by 

 Messrs. Keuffel and Esser of New York. The laboratory and 

 field work in the elementary course have been somewhat changed 

 from last year's plan ; more attention has been given to study of 

 rock specimens indoors, and to the construction of field maps out- 

 doors. The Pondville locality of carboniferous rocks in Norfolk 

 County has been included in the excursions, of which eleven were 

 made, the class being divided into small sections for this purpose. 



Mr. Dodge gave a course in elementary geology to a class of 

 sixteen students in Radcliffe College ; the plan of the course was 

 similar to that given to the Harvard College students, and this 

 year for the first time equivalent laboratory opportunities were 

 given to the two classes. 



During the summers of 1894 and 1895, Mr. Dodge has acted as 

 assistant to Dr. C. W. Hayes in geological field-work in Tennessee. 

 At the close of the past year he resigned his position as Instructor 

 in Geology at Harvard to accept the instructorship in geography 

 and geology in the Teachers College, New York City. 



Dr. R. T. Jackson reports substantially as follows concerning 

 the courses in Palaeontology. The teaching collections have been 

 increased by various additions, and arranged throughout in a man- 

 ner that much facilitates their use by students. A moderate num- 

 ber of palaeontological books and papers have been added to the 

 working library. The Museum library has deposited with these 

 collections, as a permanent loan, fifty-eight diagrams, including 

 fifty-six palseontogical diagrams by Zittel ; these have now been 

 mounted on rollers. The following gifts are acknowledged. A 

 collection of fossils and rock specimens from Dr. T. W. Harris, 

 including specimens from localities not before represented, and 

 samples of the unfossiliferous layers of our palaeozoic formations. 

 Some specimens needed to fill gaps have been received from the 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology. Mr. B. S. Oppenheimer gave a 

 small collection of fossil gums, other than amber, from localities 

 of economic interest. Prof. A. P. Brigham, of Colgate Univer- 

 sity, presented a lot of fossils from the Devonian of New York. 

 Gifts were also received from Prof. A. Hyatt, Dr. C. R. Eastman, 



