1883.] 353 [Annual Meeting- 



Annisqnam Laboratory. 



The laboratory, as was announced in the last annual report, was 

 opened and supported by the Woman's Education Association. 

 The windmill which was alluded to also in the same report as a 

 donation from the same Association, was erected in the spring 

 and was in use all summer. Mr. Van Vleck carefully attended to 

 the details of its erection, putting u]3 himself all of the more deli- 

 cate portions of the apparatus inside of the building. Our janitor 

 was also employed for several days in assisting with the necessary 

 carpenter's work. Mr. Yan Yleck, who gives his time gratuitously 

 for the benefit of the laboratory and the teaching of the pupils, 

 reports that he had fourteen students, of whom eight were 

 women and six were men. The average time of attendance 

 of women was three weeks and one day each, average time 

 of men six weeks each. Of these students, eleven were teach- 

 ers of Natural History, two were special students in this de- 

 partment, and one was an investigator. About half a dozen 

 applicants were unable to come on account of the expense of 

 board, etc., at the sea side, and in fact this obstacle is by far the 

 most important in the path of our success. As soon as our labora- 

 tory courses are again started in the Teachers' School of Science 

 we may expect to see the number of students increase in the 

 Annisquam Laboratory, but until this is done there is no doubt 

 that this department will not be so well attended as it has been. 



Expeditions. 



Mr. W. O. Crosby visited Baracoa in the Island of Cuba, and 

 brought back a miscellaneous collection, of 'which, on account of 

 Mr. Crosby's absence in Europe, we cannot give a more definite 

 account. Mr. Van Vleck made a flying trip to Key West, Nassau 

 and Cuba, and brought back a large collection which has benefited 

 the Laboratory, and the Teachers' School of Science, and added 

 some specimens of value and interest to our Museum. 



The Curator made a few dredging trips during the last summer 

 off Cape Ann, but in one case only were these at all noteworthy ; 

 <xi that occasion specimens of Octopus, and other interesting forms 

 were brought up from a depth of about forty fathoms. 



PKOCEEDINGS B. S. N. H. VOL. XXEI. 23 APRIL, 1884. 



