1879.] ID [Annual Meeting. 
Mr. Henshaw, my right hand assistant in all the work of 
preparation and distribution, whose untiring energy con- 
tributed largely to secure the success of every lesson; Miss 
Hintz, of the Normal School, who drew with remarkable skill 
the diagrams used in the Zoological course, and enabled the 
Custodian to illustrate fully all subjects; Mr. Van Vleck 
for aid in the preparation of models; Mr. L. S. Burbank; 
Miss Nunn, Prof. of Biology at Wellesley College; Mr. E. R. 
McCarthy, of New York; Capt. Horsfall, of Steamer Canopus; 
Mr. Eugene G. Blackford, of New York; and the proprietors 
of the Parker House and Young’s Hotel, for donations of 
specimens and assistance in various ways. 
Mr. KE. G. Gardiner, Mr. E. A. W. Hammatt, Mr. G. H. 
Barton of the Institute of Technology, have also kindly as- 
sisted at the lectures in various capacities. To many of my 
own students, teachers, and others I am also indebted for 
assistance. 
Since the lectures were begun in 1871, they have been 
continued without interruption, except during the winter 
of 1872-73, under the patronage of Mr. John Cummings; 
and previous to this winter about 75,000 specimens of min- 
erals, plants, and animals had been studied and distributed to 
teachers of the public schools. The application for tickets 
rose during those years from an average of 55 to 166. _ 
The number of recorded applications for the course now 
approaching completion is 616, or nearly four times as many 
as in previous years, and the number of specimens which 
will have been distributed during this winter alone cannot 
fall short of 100,000. | 
After an introductory lecture in which the Superintendent 
_ of the Public Schools, the President of the Society, and the 
Custodian delivered addresses appropriate to the occasion, 
Prof. Goodale completed a course of six lessons on Botany in 
which he instructed the whole audience of five hundred with 
apparently as much readiness as if it had been but fifty. Mr. 
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