Annual Moc'tlny.] 280 [May 3, 
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RNITIIOLOGY. 
The Society is indebted to Mr. C. B. Cory for his care of this 
department. Considerable manual labor has been done during 
the past year, Mrs. Flint having spent the major part of her 
time for several months in dusting and cleaning the birds and 
stands and the shelving of the cases under superintendence of the 
Curator. 
New England Collection. 
Considerable work has been done in examining and cleaning 
the stored parts of the alcoholic zoology of New England by the 
Curator assisted by Mrs. Flint. The Curator's collection of 
alcoholic Bryozoa and other collections have been more or less 
reviewed, and the safety of the specimens looked after. 
Labokatort. 
The room of this department has been used as in previous years 
by classes from the Boston University and by two classes of the 
Teachers' School of Science on Saturdays. It must also be noted 
that the use of this room has been granted for the past year to an 
advanced class of the Normal School, which has come once a 
week, and consists of twenty-four students. 
Mr. A. W. Grabau has rearranged in natural order the collec- 
tion of fossils, placing them in paper and wooden trays made in 
such proportion as completely to fill the drawers of the cabinet. 
Teachers' School of Science. 
There has been a noteworthy advance made in this department 
during the year past, which was referred to in the first j)art of 
this report. An effort has been made to enlarge the curriculum 
of the Normal School in the direction of natural history work. 
It is not nec^essary to go into any details, but the results can be 
stated. The master of the Normal School has been allowed to 
enlarge the opportunities for study, and to offer voluntary courses 
in natural histoiy to certain classes. No provision, however, has 
