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nearly completed. The paper will be issued in the Museum 

 Bulletin. 



The Zoological Club has continued to hold regular meetings 

 during the year, with profit to its members. 



Natural Histor}^ 6, a course on the Comparative Anatomy of 

 Vertebrates, by Mr. G. H. Parker, was taken by four Seniors, 

 four Juniors, and five Special Students. 



The class in Elementary Biology, Nat. Hist. 5, was conducted 

 by Dr. Farlow and Mr. G. H. Parker, assisted by Mr. W. A. 

 Setchell, on the plan pursued in previous years. The course was 

 attended by thirty-two students. It was voted by the Faculty, 

 that, after the year 1889-90, all students intending to take 

 this course should be required to have studied previously Nat. 

 Hist. 2. 



The courses Nat. Hist. 23 and Nat. Hist. 12, awaiting the com- 

 pletion of the laboratories specially intended for their use, were 

 held in the room of the Crj^ptogamic Herbarium and one of the 

 Museum work-rooms. The former was attended by four stu- 

 dents, the latter by five students. Of the students in Nat. Hist. 

 12, Mr. Kingo Miyabe received the degree of Doctor of Science 

 in June, presenting as his graduating thesis a paper on the Flora 

 of the Kurile Islands, which will appear shortly in the Memoirs 

 of the Boston Natural History Society. He also published in the 

 Annals of Botany a paper on the Life History of Macrosporium 

 parasiticum," embodying work done in Nat. Hist. 12. A paper 

 by Mr. H. M. Richards on The Uredo-stage of Gymnosporan- 

 gium" appeared in the Botanical Gazette of September. Two 

 algological papers were written by Mr. Richards and Mr. J. P. 

 Morgan, but have not yet gone to press. Other students in Nat. 

 Hist. 12 have been engaged in the continuance of work on their 

 graduating theses, which they intend to offer as candidates for 

 the degree of Doctor of Philosophy during the coming year. 



