230 PROCEEDINGS 
BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 
Science. A number of new diagrams have been made by Miss 
Martin. The Curator, assisted by Mr. Coles and Miss Martin, has 
rearranged the entire collection, a task requiring considerable labor, 
owing to the confusion into which all parts of this collection had 
fallen during the last ten years. 
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Remarks. 
An unusually large amount of time has been expended this year 
upon miscellaneous work not reported upon above, both by the 
assistants and by the Curator. 
The Museum has been visited this year on days other than public 
days by 494 pupils representing 12 schools. 
Teachers’ School of Sciexce. 
Mr. Grabau has continued his work in this department without 
remuneration. Five short and three long excursions were made 
during the spring of 1899 to the seashores in the neighborhood of 
Boston, and to some of the freshwater ponds, for the purpose of 
studying and collecting living animals. One of the longer excur¬ 
sions was made to Cuttyliunk, one of the Elizabeth Islands, and 
occupied four days. The average attendance on the short trips 
was fifteen, and there were seventeen jjersons present on the Cutty- 
hunk trip. The longest excursion was made to Bayville on Line- 
kin Bay, Maine. This occiqjied ten days in July. Here a tem¬ 
porary laboratory was opened, and lectures were given. This class 
was divided into sections, and practical instruction in the local 
geology and botany was added to the marine zoological work, each 
section carrying on one of these subjects. A number of the inhab¬ 
itants of Bayville attended this course, and the botanical section 
remained for ten days longer after the main body of the class had 
gone home. The average attendance on this excursion was fifteen. 
The third excursion, of ten days’ duration, was made in July to 
Monhegan Island, Maine, under the charge of some of the advanced 
students of the Teachers’ School of Science, who assumed Mr. 
Grabau’s duties during his absence at the West. The average 
attendance on this excursion was twenty-one. No systematic work 
was attempted in the autumn, but two excursions were made to 
localities in the vicinity of Boston. This decline in the autumn is 
the natural prelude to the entire cessation of this work, since Mr. 
Grabau will probably not remain in this vicinity after this year. 
