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fying him for the difficult and important position. 

 An outline of twenty lectures hastily prepared, 

 showing what he could do in this line, was read be- 

 fore the Joint Committees of the Legislature and the 

 College. All parties were satisfied, and at the 

 annual meeting of the Corporation, in June, 1872, he 

 was formally appointed Director of the Museum of 

 Natural History, and Lecturer on Special Branches 

 of Agriculture. Subsequently his title was changed 

 to Professor of Agricultural Zoology, and Curator 

 of the Museum of Natural History. This title he 

 retained until the day of his death, giving lectures 

 as proposed, attending the meetings of the Faculty, 

 and sustaining with increasing credit the important 

 department of instruction committed to his charge. 

 In his final report to President Andrews, published 

 since his decease, he says: "For the twentieth 

 time as Professor of Agricultural Zoology, I have 

 delivered my annual course of lectures on Agricul- 

 tural topics, each year revised and improved, to the 

 members of the Senior Class enjoying the benefit of 

 the State Agricultural Scholarships, and have only 

 words of commendation as to both the deportment 

 of the students, and the interest manifested in the 

 subjects treated. v 



It would be interesting did time allow, to trace 

 from these feeble beginnings the steady and continu- 

 ous growth of our present Museum of Anthropology, 

 and the Jenks Museum of Zoology. Through the 

 personal solicitations of the zealous and indefatigable 



