REPORT. 



To the President and Fellows of Harvard College: — 



During the past academic year the regular courses in Zool- 

 ogy and Geology were given in the Natural History Laboratories 

 of the Museum. Nine courses in zoology were given by Assist- 

 ant Professor Jackson, Doctors Parker, Davenport, and Castle, 

 assisted by Messrs. M. A. Bigelow, R. W. Hall, P. Frandsen, W. 

 J. Moenkhaus, H. W. Rand, C. W. Prentiss, and S. R. Williams. 

 These courses were attended by two hundred and fifty students. 

 Four of the courses were also given to forty-two students of 

 Radcliffe College. Fourteen courses in geology were given by 

 Professors Shaler and Jackson, Doctors Daly and Jagger, Messrs. 

 Ward and Woodworth, assisted by Messrs. J. M. Boutwell and 

 J. E. Woodman. The courses in geology were attended by four 

 hundred and eighty-five students. Two of the courses in geol- 

 ogy were given to twenty-three students of Radcliffe. 



Details concerning the courses of instruction will be found in 

 the reports of the departments under the Faculty of Arts and 

 Sciences. 



Nine students benefited by the income of the Humboldt Fund, 

 which was applied for their maintenance during summer study 

 at the United States Fish Commission Laboratory at Wood's 

 Hole. 



The Virginia Barret Gibbs scholarship was held by Mr. M. A. 

 Bigelow. 



Mr. Brewster in his report calls attention to the pressing need 

 of the Museum for a collection of mammal skins for study and 

 reference. The storage collection now possessed by the Museum 

 is so small and of such poor quality that we are really crippled, 

 and the one thing needed by the Museum to balance its rich 

 reference collections is an extensive series of mammal skins. 

 Just such a collection as is needed has been offered to us at a 



