Annu;il Me.<tiup.| !it)() [May 2, 
None fuili'd to pass, ami scweral of l.lio books were very nearly 
perfcHJt. 
Thirty-live ineinhers of the class have signified their desire to 
take the course in j)aleo-hotany offered for next year to complete 
the course aa originally j)lanned. 
Dr. Greenleaf desires to acknowledge this year as also last year 
his indebtedness to his assistants, Miss Jennie M. Jackson, Miss 
Helen Sharp, and Mr. Samuel F. Tower. 
The series of special courses in historical geology and pale- 
ontology was continued by the Curator. Nineteen lessons were 
given, excluding the examination, beginning on November 4, 189.'5, 
and ending Ai)ril 7 ; the examination was held April 28. The 
whole number of tickets issued was thirty, and the average atten- 
dance was twenty. This being the fourth year of this series 
accounts for the falling off in the number of the class. Fifteen 
persons took the examination, and the results show how com- 
pletely the class had been weeded. The note books made during 
the term, the test with twelve specimens, and the answers to 
questions, upon which most of them wrote for four hours at the 
examination, all proved highly satisfactory, the average l)eing far 
above th:it of last year. The Curator desires to thank Miss 
J. M. Arms and Miss Hetty O. Ballard for assistance in giving 
these lessons. 
The Teachers' School of Science also took part in the exhibi- 
tion of elementary science teaching made by certain teachers of 
the public schools of the eastern part of this State in the spring 
of 1893. The exhibit comprised a suite of large cards giving a 
list of lectures delivered since 1871 chronologically arranged, 
analyses of special courses then being carried on, and a synopsis of 
one lecture in each course accompanied by a series of the spe- 
cimens used. There was also a collection showing samples of the 
specimens that had lieen used and given away in past years, and 
also a sei-ies of the books and models of various kinds that had 
been made to illustrate these lessons. 
This exhibition was of solid benefit since it showed thousands 
of teachers what had been done and Avas still being done by this 
Society and by the TrustCQ of the Lowell Fund in aid of educa- 
tion, and it was worth all the labor and trouble that it cost. 
The Society owes the opportunity to take part in this public 
(exhibit to the generosity of Mr. T. A. Watson, who 2:)aid the 
expenses of ])reparation, installation, and attendance. 
