Annual Reports.] 
184 
[May 4, 
The applications for tickets to these lectures so far exceeded onr 
expectations that we were forced to duplicate them, each speaker 
being engaged to repeat his lesson on the same day before a 
different audience. The average attendance was at first four hun- 
dred ; but subsequently fell off to two hundred and fifty in conse- 
quence of the attractions of two other courses of lectures, one of 
which was instituted by Harvard College, on Pedagogy, and the 
other by one of the Supervisors. These, coming at the same hour 
as the morning lecture, lessened our attendance very considerably. 
It is with great satisfaction that I find myself able to announce 
that this important department of our work is to be taken under 
the protection of the Lowell Fund. Mr. Augustus Lowell sent 
word recently through Mr. T. T. Bouve, that our Society would 
receive an annual donation of fifteen hundred dollars to be ex- 
pended in the Teacher’s School of Science. 
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Laboratory. 
The Laboratory has been used this year by a Saturday morning 
class for Te'achers, in Zoology, a class in Zoology from the Boston 
• University, a class in Zoology and Paleontology from the Mass. In- 
stitute of Technology, a special class in Biology under the exclu- 
sive direction of Mr. Van Yleck, and a class in Physiology from the 
Boston University, also under this gentleman’s exclusive con- 
trol. A comparison with last year’s report will show that the in- 
crease in activity in this department is very marked. Another 
movement of importance to our Laboratory has reached such 
proportions that we can speak of it publicly. It frequently 
happens that able students are obliged to take up teaching 
or some other paying occupation before they are sufficiently 
prepared. A number of ladies feeling this to be an evil which 
could be partially remedied by establishing a Students’ Aid 
and Loan Fund, have worked with great energy for that pur- 
pose. The Society is indebted to Miss Crocker, Mrs. Talbot, Mrs 
W ells and Mrs. Boardman, and the W Oman’s University Education 
Association, for their efforts to establish this fund, the amount of 
which is given in the Treasurer’s Beport. The fund has been 
used already for the benefit of four students. 
