to the days of opening ; this has been done and the results are 
gratifying ; the average attendance on Sunday exceeding six 
thousand persons. The total number of visitors during the year 
was 412, 558. 
Chapter 423 of the Laws of 1892 was approved by the Governor, 
May 2d. Its terms authorized the Board of Estimate and Appor- 
tionment to appropriate four hundred thousand dollars for the 
erection and equipment of an addition to the Museum, and for 
other purposes therein specified. In conformity with these pro- 
visions the Trustees have selected the architects, and plans have 
been prepared for the building which is greatly needed. 
Lectures. — By arrangement with Columbia College, lectures 
have been delivered, in cooperation with the Museum, on Natural 
History subjects ; the results have been eminently satisfactory 
and have attracted large audiences. The courses comprised 
Forestry, Astronomy, Mineralogy and Chemistry. 
Meetings of Scientific Societies. — The annual exhibition 
of the New York Microscopical Society was given at the Museum 
on April 22d, and was attended by twenty-five hundred people. 
The joint meeting of the societies composing the Scientific 
Alliance was held in the lecture hall, and the regular meetings of 
the American Ethnological Society of New York, Linnaean 
Society, Entomological Society of New York, and the Mineral- 
ogical Society of this city are held in the reading room of the 
library. 
Forestry Collection. — The Jesup Collection of Woods has 
been enriched by the gift from C. P. Huntington, Esq., of an 
excellent section of the Redwood, and an equally good example 
of the Giant Sequoia from California. 
Geological Department. — A notable addition to this depart- 
ment was three large blocks of limestone from Beirut, Syria, 
donated by the Protestant College of that place through the Rev. 
D. Stuart Dodge. The entire collection of minerals has been 
transferred to the west wing of the new building. The lately 
purchased Spang Collection of Minerals has been incorporated 
