8 COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. [Jan. 



Museum grounds.* The advantages to be gained by a con- 

 centration of all the natural history departments within one 

 enclosure, are too obvious to need enumeration, and this cen- 

 tralization will undoubtedly build up, within a comparatively 

 short period, a comprehensive institution of natural history, 

 with facilities enjoyed by few like establishments elsewhere. 



The State has given about $290,000 00 



Private sources, including college, about . . . 695,000 00 



$985,000 00 



Which is represented by the following investments : $116,000 

 held by the Trustees, and $350,000 held by the Corporation, the 

 balance being in land, building, collections, and the work done 

 upon them since 1859. In addition to the income derived 

 from these funds, the College pays annually about $10,000 

 towards the salaries of instructors connected with the Museum 

 and its different departments, while the Peabody trust virtu- 

 ally increases the resources of the Museum by providing in 

 one of the most expensive branches of natural history, the 

 means for a professorship, beside a collection and building 

 fund, amounting together to more than $200,000. 



As the trusts held for the Museum by the Corporation of 

 the College have all been given for the benefit of the institu- 

 tion on certain conditions which cannot readily be changed, 

 the proposed consolidation offers the readiest means of carry- 

 ing out at once a plan the completion of which seemed to the 

 founder hopelessly remote, while the transfer of the care of 

 the property to the corporation of Harvard College protects 

 the interests of the State and in no way lessens the value of 

 the Museum to the public. 



For the work carried on in the different departments, I 

 would refer to the special reports of the professors and assist- 

 ants. 



The instruction at the Museum has been given by Profs. 

 Whitney, Hagen, Shaler, McCrady, Dr. James, and Mr. Allen. 



Prof. Whitney gave a course of thirty-four lectures on 

 economical geology, which were attended by some candidates 



* Early last summer, the Corporation assigned, as was expected, a site on the 

 Museum grounds to the trustees of the Peabody Museum. 



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