Annual Meeting.] 
432 
[May 4, 
collections can be removed into another building and the arrange- 
ment remain practically the same. Each of the departments in 
the Systematic series, except the collection of birds which is 
already large enough and the Mollusca which is very nearly large 
enough for the purposes of a great museum, would require only 
to be expanded. No change in the order of their succession 
would be desirable. Great faunal collections, outside of New 
England, do not exist in the Society’s Museum, and should never 
be built up, as long as those at Cambridge are maintained in their 
present extent and perfection, and they have been omitted from 
the plan of our arrangement on this account. 
Part of the results attained during the past official year has 
been included in these retrospective remarks, and noting the 
omission of these, we can now pass on to the usual record of the 
work done during that time. 
Permission to visit and study in the Museum on days when the 
public is not admitted has been granted to thirty-eight teachers 
representing thirty-seven schools and six hundred and seventy- 
two pupils. This increase is so large, being nearly three times 
as great as the records of last year, that it suggests possible 
errors in the mode of keeping the entries, but allowing for all of 
these a margin of nearly one third, the fact remains that the num- 
bers of teachers and their pupils brought to this Museum in an 
official way have doubled within the past two years. 
The rooms and collections have been used as in times past by 
the officers and pupils of the Institute of Technology and Boston 
University. 
The staff of the Museum remains the same as during the past 
year, with the exception of the addition of one person, Mrs. E. D. 
Ramsay, who has had the care of the collection of microscopy 
and has done considerable work upon them, which is reported 
upon under the appropriate heading. 
The acknowledgment of our obligations to Miss J. M. Arms, 
Mrs. E. D. Ramsay, Miss E. 13. Boardman, Mr. John Cum- 
mings, Mr. C. B. Cory, and Dr. R. T. Jackson, for labor in the 
Museum, while due to them, is not in any sense an adequate 
return for the important services they have gratuitously rendered 
the Society. 
