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to anticipate a part of its income for a number of years. The 

 Botanical Section is also ready for the furniture and heating 

 apparatus. 



Beside these two sections, the last section of the Oxford Street 

 fa9ade will also be completed by the time this Report is printed. 

 Professor J. P. Cooke has succeeded in obtaining from the friends 

 of the College a sum sufficient for the erection of another 

 section, which is to be devoted to the Mineralogical Depart- 

 ment. With the exception of the southwest corner piece, the 

 building will then be complete according to the scheme laid 

 out in 1859 for the accommodation of the Natural History 

 Departments. This should for some time to come give ample 

 room for the working of the Departments it is intended to 

 shelter, leaving for future exigencies the southwest corner piece, 

 which will eventually connect the University Museum with the 

 Peabody Museum. 



I have annexed to my Report, — 



1. An elevation of the University Museum as seen from Oxford 

 Street. 



2. A view of the University Museum Building, exclusive of 

 the Mineralogical Section now erecting, as seen from the north- 

 west corner, on Oxford Street. 



3. A view of the interior of the Natural History Quadrangle, 

 seen from the southeast side. 



4. A ground plan of the Natural History Quadrangle, showing 

 the North Wing, or the Museum of Comparative Zoology ; the 

 northwest corner piece, containing the Natural History Laborato- 

 ries ; the Oxford Street faQade of the University Museum, com- 

 prising the Botanical Department, the Mineralogical Department, 

 and the projected southwest corner of Laboratories and Lecture 

 Rooms which are to connect the University Museum with the 

 South Wing, or the Peabody Museum. The shaded parts indi- 

 cate tlie portions of the building already erected, or in process 

 of erection. 



5. A plan of the Basement, showing the storage and work 

 rooms of the Alcoholic Collections in the North Wing, the re- 

 ceiving-room, boiler-room, and Aquarium and Vivarium in the 

 northwest corner piece, and the engine-room, laboratories, work- 

 shops, and photographic rooms of the Geological and Lithological 

 Department. 



