MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 



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Professor William Morris Davis has been appointed to the 

 vacant Sturgis-Hooper chair of Geology. 



Radcliffe College has made its first annual appropriation of 

 1700 as a compensation to the Museum for the use of the 

 rooms and laboratories by its students. Radcliffe has always 

 enjoyed the facilities of the Museum, occupying at various times 

 during the college year eight out of the eleven lecture rooms and 

 laboratories to the exclusion of other students at those hours. 

 It would be no more than reasonable that a similar provision 

 should be made for the large classes of the Summer School of 

 Geology which take possession of the building during the sum- 

 mer months. 



The invested funds of the Museum have been increased by a 

 grant of the corporation of $100,000 from the Henry L. Pierce 

 bequest. This welcome addition will in a small measure compen- 

 sate for the shrinkage of the income of the Museum through the 

 decreased rate of interest from its invested funds. 



After almost thirty years of faithful and devoted service as 

 librarian of the Museum, Miss Frances M. Slack has been ap- 

 pointed Librarian Emerita. Under her care the library has 

 grown from less than ten thousand to more than thirty-two 

 thousand volumes and nearly as many pamphlets and unbound 

 parts, and during her administration of the library the influence 

 of the Museum has been widely extended through its exchanges. 

 Miss Slack will continue to give her services to the Museum 

 which has so long benefited by them. 



Mr. Samuel Henshaw, Museum Assistant in Entomology, has 

 accepted the appointment of Librarian, and at the beginning of the 

 academic year will assume charge of the library. Mr. Henshaw 

 will remain in charge of the entomological department, and in 

 addition to his duties as Librarian will have under his care the 

 publications of the Museum. The Museum is most fortunate in 

 securing the services of Mr. Henshaw, who resigns the secretary- 

 ship of the Boston Society of Natural History to give all. of his 

 time to the Museum, whose activities will thus be strengthened. 



At the wish of Mr. Agassiz I visited the Samoan Islands dur- 

 ing a part of the past winter to procure additional material for 

 my work on the Palolo or Bololo worm, which was begun in the 

 Fiji Islands, whither I accompanied Mr. Agassiz as his assistant, 

 I was successful beyond expectations, though not without hard- 



