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As previously, Dr. Parker conducted the course in Zoology 2. 

 His Chief Assistant was Mr. J. I. Hamaker, and Messrs. R. W. 

 Hall, A. S. Hanna, and B. S. Oppenheimer served as Sub-Assist- 

 ants in the laboratory work. 



In Zoology 3, the plan of allowing six weeks for the special- 

 topic work, as in 1894-95, was continued. It is believed that this 

 plan of special topics has a distinct advantage over that which 

 made the laboratory instruction consist wholly of prescribed routine 

 work. It is of course at the cost of a certain amount of detailed 

 information, but the additional experience offered by this plan, and 

 the greater stimulus to individual effort, more than compensate for 

 this loss. The results obtained in the study of two of the topics 

 assigned are deemed worthy of publication, and will be published 

 under the following titles : " The Brachial and Lumbosacral Plex- 

 uses in Necturus," by F. C. Waite, and "The Azygos Veins in 

 Swine," by C. H. Tozier. In conducting this course Dr. Parker 

 had the assistance in the laboratory of Messrs. P. E. Sargent and 

 W. L. Tower. Two short papers on the use of Formol, prepared 

 last year by Dr. Parker, in collaboration with Mr. R. Floyd, have 

 been published as Nos. LI. and LIV. of the Contributions. 



The lectures in Zoology 4, by Dr. Mark, covered about the same 

 ground as usual, and were supplemented by additional lectures 

 given by Dr. Woodworth, who also had charge of the laboratory 

 work. The class being a little smaller than in the previous year, 

 it was not found necessary to seat the students in different rooms ; 

 but the facilities for laboratory work are insufficient even for the 

 number of students taking the course the past year. 



Dr. Woodworth, owing to the exceptional opportunity offered 

 him of accompanying the Curator of the Museum in an expedi- 

 tion to Australia, was released from his duties in connection with 

 the laboratory work of Zoology 5 at the end of February, and 

 Mr. H. V. Neal was employed to take his place. The lectures 

 and laboratory work were nearly the same as in previous 

 years- 



The lectures in Zoology 6, by Dr. Davenport, were devoted to 

 ontogenetic problems during the first half-year, to phylogenetic 

 ones during the second. The laboratory work had to be conducted 

 under the great disadvantage of being in different rooms, and often 

 at tables where the student was carrying on other studies ; for the 

 laboratory in the basement, though well adapted to certain work, 



