1876.] 



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plishraent of plans which, even at a comparatively recent 

 period, seemed far removed to the founder of the Museum. 



The late Mr. Samuel Hooper gave his consent to the 

 mechanical connection of the Sturgis-Hooper Professorship 

 of Geology with the Museum, and, with the sanction of the 

 corporation, the geological department of the Museum will 

 hereafter be under the general superintendence of that pro- 

 fessor. The addition of the physiological and anatomical 

 departments necessarily adds much which could scarcely have 

 been expected to receive proper attention in a zoological 

 museum, even when understood in its widest sense. A 

 large part of the material required for the instructions given 

 in these departments is identical. The same is the case 

 for the series needed for the exhibition-rooms, and by this 

 close connection the materials needed for comparisons from 

 one department to the other will always be readily accessible. 

 A degree of concentration and efficiency can thus be secured 

 by the cordial cooperation of the different heads, hardly to be 

 expected from separate institutions, even when part of the 

 same university, in which the instruction and exhibition do 

 not come so directly under the notice of the various officers, 

 and their general care is made a part of the duties of the 

 Curator of the Museum. 



The advantages of a common library, and all the minor 

 details of supervision, are too evident to need comment. 



The proceeds of the Humboldt Fund have been used in 

 assisting several students to continue their work at the 

 Museum and elsewhere. 



The details of the different departments are given in the 

 reports of the assistants in charge. 



By the success of the Agassiz Memorial Fund,* the Trus- 

 tees and Faculty will be enabled, as soon as the contem- 

 plated additions to the buildings are erected, to carry out 

 the principal ideas of Prof. Agassiz for the arrangement of 

 a Museum. 



The foundation will then be laid of an institution in which 

 the claims of college students, of teachers, of special students, 

 of advanced workers, and of original investigators will be 

 considered, as far as the means and space of the establish- 



* For the details of the Memorial Fund see Appendix. 



