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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



State of Collection, July 1. 



Photographs. 



Slides. 



Negatives. 



Accessions since last report 



30 



110 1 



38 



Unidentified views 



253 











Duplicates 



144 











Broken 







2 







Condemned 







2 







Condemned (as shown by catalogues) 









since beginning of collection 





59 







Last accession number 



5984 



5585 







Number now in collection 



5902 



5579 



1274 



Number card catalogued 







5579 







The sub-committee on the Josiah Dwight Whitney Scholarship 

 reports that two scholarships were assigned during the summer 

 of 1909, one of $200. to Mr. C. T. Brodrick for field work in the 

 Canadian Rockies, and one of $100. to Mr. F. H. Lahee, for field 

 work in Rhode Island. 



The following abstracts of reports give details concerning the 

 courses, and the condition of the laboratories. 



Professor Rotch reports that Mr. A. H. Palmer, prepared a thesis 

 on "Wind velocity and direction in the upper air," and has be- 

 come a regular member of the staff of the Blue Hill Observatory. 



Professor Jackson reports that three storage cases were built, 

 that the equipment and collections for teaching Palaeontology are 

 in excellent condition, and were obtained from the following sources : 

 — Material deposited by the Museum of Comparative Zoology, by 

 the late N. S. Shaler, by R. T. Jackson and by other officers of 

 the department, also gifts from students and others; there is also 

 material purchased from the annual allotments of the Geological 

 and the Zoological departments. From the Zoological allotments 

 two microscopes, 60 photographic diagrams, 55 catalogued lots 

 of Cretaceous and Tertiary Foraminifera, 10 Beecher models of 

 Brachiopoda, 4 models of fossil Crustacea, and 23 specimens of 

 fossil vertebrates have been purchased. There are five Bausch and 

 Lomb microscopes, and 402 diagrams, including a set of Zittel's 

 charts and many enlarged photographic diagrams. The collections 

 include 5,050 catalogued lots of fossils, illustrative recent material, 

 and lithological material . In addition there is a considerable amount 

 of uncatalogued material available for special study or exchange. 

 I >r. Jackson devoted his spare time to a monograph on Echini. 



1 Of these 59 have been assigned new numbers and 51 are the numbers of condemned 

 slides. The difference between the "number now in collection" and "last accession 

 number" is balanced by six unused numbers of condemned slides. 



