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for the Weather Bureau, ou a plan similar to that followed by 

 Professor Davis for the New England Meteorological Society 

 from 1885 to 1887. The results of Mr. Ward's work in this 

 direction will be published by the Weather Bureau. 



The collections of the Laboratory of Physical Geography have 

 been increased chiefly in the direction of photographs and lan- 

 tern slides. The most important additions are as follows : — 



A series of cloud photographs, presented by Professor Denza, Director 

 of the Specula Vaticana, Rome. 



A series of cloud photographs in the Alps, presented by Jas. Eccles, 

 Esq., of London. 



A series of large landscape views on the line of the Baltimore and Ohio 

 Railroad, presented by the company. 



A series of views of Pilot Mountain, N. C, presented by the Cape Fear 

 and Yadkin Valley Railroad Company. 



A series of photographs and slides, purchased from the Alaskan expedi- 

 tion of 1891, led by Mr. I. C. Russell. 



A series of Spitzbergen photographs, bought through Professor H. Sjo- 

 gren, of Upsala, Sweden. 



A series of photographs and slides of the Mascaret of the Seine at 

 Caudebec, bought from A. Witz, Rouen, France. 



An extended series of photographs and slides, purchased from Messrs. 

 W. H. Jackson and Company, of Denver, Col., representing views in the 

 Western Territories, Louisiana, Florida, and Mexico. 



A large number of photographs and slides from Mr. S. R. Stoddard, 

 of Glen's Falls, N. Y., representing landscapes in New York and New 

 England. 



A series of lantern slides made from photographs in the Laboratory 

 collection, by Mr. P. P. Sharpies, Class of '95. 



Especial attention has been given during the past year to the 

 extension of the University collections of modern topographic 

 maps, on which the more advanced study of Physical Geogra- 

 phy so largely depends. An appropriation for this purpose was 

 granted to this department by the University Library Council, 

 and topographic maps of Saxon}^, Austria, and the Netherlands 

 have thus been purchased. It is hoped that this appropriation 

 may be continued for some years, until the collection of modern 

 maps is substantially completed. A large series of maps has been 

 received from the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, and 

 from the United States Geological Survey. 



