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Laboratory. 
The room of the department has been used as in previous years 
by the classes from the Boston University, and by two classes of 
the Teachers’ School of Science. A much larger amount of work 
than is usual has been done by Miss Martin in remounting old speci¬ 
mens and making new ones, together with diagrams needed for use 
in the classes. 
Teachers’ School of Science. 
This department has, through the liberality of the Trustee of the 
Lowell Fund, been able to do all of its work within this building. 
Heretofore we have been dependent upon the generosity of the 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the loan of a room for 
the use of the classes in geology and also for the use of their collec¬ 
tions. This year, however, we have purchased the materials and 
trays that were necessary for Mr. Barton’s courses, and these are 
now stored in this building. Mr. Barton also used our lecture room 
for his classes. The connection of the Society with the Normal 
School has been maintained by Mr. Barton, who has delivered a 
course of ten lessons in the field to a class of eleven pupils from the 
Boston Normal School. These lessons were all given in the imme¬ 
diate vicinity of Boston, Marblehead being the most distant point 
visited. This course was noticed as having been begun in the last 
annual report. This year the class is continued with a membership 
of thirteen, ten lessons having been arranged for. Mention should 
be made of the fact, that members from these classes have become 
sufficiently interested to join the regular teachers’ field and labora¬ 
tory classes in the Lowell Free Courses. 
, Lowell Free Courses. 
The field course in geology in the spring of 1895 was much dis¬ 
turbed by stormy weather. About fifty tickets were distributed, 
the average attendance being about twenty-five. Ten lessons in all 
were given, those occurring on stormy Saturdays being replaced by 
lectures in the laboratory. Two distant points were visited, Mt. 
Holyoke and Gay Head, the former taking two days and the latter 
three days. The autumn field course also consisted of ten lessons, 
of which two were to distant points, Hoosac Tunnel and Greylock, 
