REPORT. 



To the President and Fellows of Harvard College: — 



During the past year the usual courses of instruction have 

 been given at the Museums in Zoology by Professor Mark, Dr. 

 S'lade, and Mr. Davenport, assisted in the Laboratory work by 

 Messrs. W. M. Woodworth, W. S. Nickerson, J. C. Hubbard, 

 and H. M. Kelly. 



Professors Whitney, Shaler, Davis, and Wolff gave courses of 

 instruction in Geology, Palaeontology, Physical Geography, and 

 Petrography. Messrs. Harris, Dodge, Kummel, J. B. Wood- 

 worth, R. DeC. Ward, Westgate, and R. T. Jackson were the 

 Assistants in the Undergraduate instruction of the Geological 

 Department. 



For the details of these courses of instruction, as well as of 

 the summer courses in Geology, I would refer to the accompany- 

 ing special reports of the Professors and Instructors. 



The Reports upon the instruction given in Natural History at 

 the Museum show how little of the work of our Professors is 

 devoted to fostering original research or advanced studies. The 

 fact is, that the Undergraduate classes have become so large, and 

 their demands upon the time of the Professors so pressing, that 

 the function of the latter of encouraging, as University Profes- 

 sors, the attendance of advanced students at Harvard is reduced 

 to a minimum. In fact, the time which our Professors give to 

 elementary teaching is entirely out of proportion to that allowed 

 them for higher instruction. Thus the facilities for original 

 investigation which might be attained at the Museum, and for 

 which it was primarily intended, have been thrown away for 



