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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

. Boston, January 26, 1876.
To the Honorable Gro. B. Lorine, President of the Senate.

Sir :—The Trustees of the Museum of Comparative Zodlogy,
have the honor to present to the Legislature the Report of
the Curator to the committee on the Museum, marked [A].
The appendix thereto, marked [B], contains letters accom-
panying donations from Dr. John L. Leconte, Dr. T. M.
Brewer, Mr. Temple Prime, and sundry votes of the corporation
of Harvard College. The paper marked [C] contains the report —
of the committee of the Agassiz Memorial Fund. The papers
[D] and [E] contain a list of the Faculty of the Museum
- and assistants appointed by them, and of the present trustees.
The paper marked [F] contains the plans of the proposed
addition to the Museum, as well as a general sketch drawn
up from the instructions left by the late Professor Agassiz.

ABBOTT LAWRENCE, Secretary.

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REPORT OF THE CURATOR

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MUSEUM COMMITTER.

The general work of the Museum assistants has, as usual,
consisted mainly in preparing our material for exhibition and
packing our duplicate collections for exchange. A number of
collections have been sent to the schools of the State; these
will be supplemented from our duplicates as rapidly as pos-
sible. For the last two years the reduced staff of assistants
has compelled us to limit our collections to such additions as
a blank in our exhibition-cases, or the need of fresh material
for instruction made necessary, the working force at our
disposal being fully occupied in distributing the perishable
material not needed for our own use or for special study
hereafter. The great difficulty of preserving alcoholic collec-
_ tions, the unpleasant nature and enormous expense of the
work, make it imperative, not only for storage, but still more

_ for exhibition purposes, that they should be restricted to a

minimum, and limited, as far as possible, to those classes
where no other mode of preservation is practicable. The
constantly increasing facilities of travel, the comparative
economy with which fresh specimens can be studied, the
superiority of such work (with proper appliances) to that of
the Museum, the daily increasing number of workers who are
able, on the sea-shore or in the field, to produce results unat-

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tainable by museum study alone, shows that the time has come
when large collections must naturally be supplemented by
zodlogical stations. These, when once established at properly
selected localities, will enable museums to dispense with
much that is now exceedingly costly. They will become, for
certain departments at least, chiefly depositories where the
record of work done at the stations—the archives of natural
science, so to speak—will be preserved; so that, while their
usefulness for the general instruction of the public and of
our higher institutions will not be diminished, they must
hereafter be useful to the original investigator in a somewhat
more limited field.

The principal additions during the year consist of the col-
lections deposited by Harvard College and of those made by
myself, with the assistance of Mr. Garman, on the west
coast of South America, from Valparaiso to Lima, and along
the line of the railroad leading from the coast to Lake Titicaca.
We thus brought together a fair representation of the fauna of
the high plateau in which Lake Titicaca is situated. A pre-
liminary account of the materials collected is now publishing
in the “Museum Bulletin.” The fishes and reptiles will be
described by Mr. Garman, the fossils by Prof. O. A. Derby,
the crustacea by Mr. Faxon, the birds and mammals by Mr.
Allen, and I hope myself to be able to give a short account of
the physical geography and geology of the district. Thanks
to the generosity of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company in
passing our baggage free, we took to Peru a large outfit in
the way of ropes, dredges, sounding-leads, thermometers for
deep-water temperatures, kindly lent us by Capt. Patterson,
the superintendent of the Coast Survey, and all the necessary
materials for preserving large collections. Though we were
greatly disappointed in the variety of animal life found in
the lake and the surrounding shore, we took some very inter-
esting deep-water temperatures (to a depth of 154 fathoms),
and completed a preliminary hydrographic sketch of Lake
Titicaca, which has furnished valuable results, and done much
to explain the poverty of its animal life. But while thus disap-
pointed in our original aims, we made extensive archeological
collections, which have been given to the Peabody Museum.

This exploration of Lake Titicaca would hardly have been

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intendent of the Mollendo and Puno Railroad ; to his friendly
interest we owe the success we have had. To the Messrs.
Meiggs of Lima, also, I must return the thanks of the Museum
for the generosity with which our bulky materials were trans-
ported free of charges from the lake to the coast, over three
hundred miles of railroad, crossing a region accessible till

within a few years only by llamas or pack-mules, the diffi-

culties of which only a traveller in the rainless belt of South
America can appreciate. Mr. Garman sailed round the lake
in a small schooner (the only sail-boat on the lake), hired

for the purpose, receiving from the prefects of the various

departments, both in Peru and Bolivia, all possible aid in
furtherance of his objects. Thanks to letters from the Sec-
retary of State (Mr. Fish) to Mr. Thomas, our minister at
Lima, President Pardo was kind enough to give us, through
the Secretary of Home Affairs, circular letters to all the
custom-houses of the coast, passing our boxes in and out of
the country without delay or examination. Special instruc-
tions were also given by the President to Mr. San Roman,

Prefect of Puno, to whose interest we owe the ppportunity

of crossing the lake several times, and circumnavigating it

on the small government steamers plying thereon. The

officers of the “Yavari” and “ Yapura” did all in their power
to facilitate my work, and it is mainly owing to them that I
succeeded in making a great number of soundings, and vis-
iting all the places of interest on the islands of the lake
and its shores. During my stay on board, the steamers
were placed at my disposal in every sense of the word; and I
cannot close my list of acknowledgments without mentioning
more specially Capt. Guerrero, of the “ Yavari,” who was
indefatigable in our behalf.

The volunteer work of the Museum has, as usual, been
carried on by Messrs. L. F. de Pourtalés, Theodore Lyman,
T. G. Cary, and Baron Osten-Sacken.

The care of the business has been undertaken, as in former
years, by Mr. Cary, while the direction of the Museum
assistants has fallen upon Mr. Pourtalés for the greater part
of the year, owing to my protracted absence.

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Baron Osten-Sacken has continued to take charge of our
collection of Diptera. I regret, however, to state, that, for
the present, at least, his absence from Cambridge will deprive
the entomological department of his services.

To Messrs. Nathaniel Thayer, Geo. B. Emerson, and Theo-
dore Lyman, the Museum is indebted for means to carry on
specific parts of the current work.

The publications of the past year have been limited to a
paper on Ophiuride (No. 10, Vol. III. of the Bulletin), pub-
lished by Mr. Lyman for the Museum.

The Museum collections have, however, formed the basis
of several papers by Dr. Steindachner, issued in the Proceed-
ings of the Vienna Academy. They were mainly devoted to
the fresh-water fishes of Southern Brazil, the Characines and
Chromids of the Amazons, and a shorter paper on some of
the species of Doras. |

A large series of the duplicates of the Thayer and Hassler
expeditions were sent to the Vienna Museum to enable Dr.
Steindachner to describe the principal novelties of these col-
lections.

The collections (referred to above) forming a part of the
late Prof. Wyman’s Anatomical Museum in Boylston Hall,
have been deposited in the Museum by the corporation of the
College. It is particularly rich in isolated mastodon bones ;
it le also a fine series of skulls in different stages, and forms,
with the nearly perfect skeleton of a astodean found at
Hacket’s Farm, Warren County, N. Y., an invaluable addi-
tion to our paleontological series.

The great pains always taken to secure the authenticity of _
original specimens in our collections, as well as the care in
preserving intact our more perishable material, are beginning
to be appreciated by specialists. During the past year we
have received the promise of three separate collections, all of
which have been accumulated during long-continued and _ suc-
cessful scientific work. It is with great pleasure I am able
to announce the donation, by Dr. John L. Leconte, of Phila-
delphia, of his collection of Coleoptera, under conditions of
a most generous nature, showing a flattering appreciation of
the aims of our institution. Dr. Leconte’s collection must
always form the basis of any extensive original study of

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_ North American Coleoptera, and is the most valuable histor-

ical collection of the order in this country. The collection

of North American birds’ eggs, by Dr. T. M. Brewer, is
second only to that of the Smithsonian; and from the high
authority of Dr. Brewer in ornithology, the gift of his collec-
tion places us at once in a most enviable position in that
department. Mr. Temple Prime has given us the types of
his collection of Corbiculide, a family of Mollusks, to which
he has mainly devoted himself. The letters of these gentle-
men, accompanying their donations, are printed in the
Appendix.

For the regular instruction given at the Museum, I would
refer to the reports of Profs. Shaler and McCrady. In
addition to this, Dr. Hagen has given a course of familiar
lectures on entomology, which has been attended by seven
students. He has also superintended the work of one
special student in his laboratory. Prof. Hamlin has been de-
tailed this term to take charge of the undergraduate instruc-
tion in structural geology and physical geography, formerly
given by Assistant Professor Pettee. This has somewhat
lessened the amount of his Museum work, but the Cura-
tor has cheerfully consented to this diminution in view
of his increasing usefulness in another direction. I would
call attention to the great advantages given to the Museum
students from their opportunity to attend the Summer School
of Geology at Cumberland Gap, inaugurated by Prof. Shaler
in connection with the field work of the geological survey
of Kentucky. Owing to the unfortunate closing of the
Anderson School at Penikese, similar privileges could not be
enjoyed by the special students of zodlogy. The field work
and special investigations done by them in the summer was
mainly left to their own resources, with the exception of two
special students whom I was able to invite to work in my
private laboratory at Newport. The necessary rooms and
material have been placed at the disposal of Dr. James to
enable him to give the college instruction of physiology and
comparative anatomy to the undergraduates at the Museum.
He has under his charge the present term about forty stu-

dents, who are taught by lectures and laboratory work.

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we have been able to place at his disposal, the materials
for the proper illustration of the geological department. He
also delivers a general course on geology at the Museum,
attended by students. In connection with the instruction
given at the Museum, I may mention that a considerable
number of diagrams have been prepared for the use of the
zodlogical department by Mr. Blake, and that during the

coming term he will be mainly occupied in drawing for the |

geological department. The largely increasing classes in
natural history have made us painfully aware of our deficien-
cies in the common apparatus necessary for instruction,
which can for the present only be supplied by additional
work on the part of the professors. This condition of things
will be remedied as fast as practicable. The want of aqua-
ria, as well as of proper space to keep live stock for the use
of the students and professors, is felt daily. Unfortunately,
we can scarcely hope to remedy this defect until the proposed
additions to the building are completed. We shall then have
suitable rooms, not only for the aquaria, in which to keep an
abundant supply of the more common marine animals, but
also the space to keep at hand animals needed for embryolog-
ical as well as anatomical and physiological instruction.
During the present year the experiment, already carried on
for one year, of gradually concentrating all the instruction in
natural history at the Museum, has been enlarged most suc-
cessfully. The combination of Museum work by the assist-

ants with more or less instruction to beginners and advanced
students, cannot fail to benefit the Museum, by making —

_ known the scope of its usefulness. Nor does it seem advisa-
ble that the instruction in natural history, and the care of the
collections in the same department, should be intrusted to
different sets of workers. The Museum, when once fairly
established, can hardly be expected to provide entirely for
all its assistants, while the practical knowledge to be gained
from the care of a special department is a necessary requisite
for a successful teacher.

It is therefore with great satisfaction that I am able to
report the assent of the corporation to the connection of the
instruction in several departments of natural history at the
University with the Museum; this will hasten the accom-

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period, seemed far removed to the founder of the Museum.

The late Mr. Samuel Hooper gave his consent to the
mechanical connection of the Sturgis-Hooper Professorship
of Geology with the Museum, and, with the sanction of the
corporation, the geological department of the Museum will
hereafter be under the general superintendence of that pro-
fessor. The addition of the physiological and anatomical
departments necessarily adds much which could scarcely have
been expected to receive proper attention in a zodlogical
museum, even when understood in its widest sense. A
large part of the material required for the instructions given
in these departments is identical. The same is the case
for the series needed for the exhibition-rooms, and by this
close connection the materials needed for comparisons from
one department to the other will always be readily accessible. ©
A degree of concentration and efficiency can thus be secured
by the cordial codperation of the different heads, hardly to be
expected from separate institutions, even when part of the
same university, in which the instruction and exhibition do
not come so directly under the notice of the various officers,
and their general care is made a part of the duties of the
Curator of the Museum.

The advantages of a common library, and all the minor
details: of supervision, are too evident to need comment.

‘The proceeds of the Humboldt Fund have been used in
assisting several students to continue their work at the
Museum and elsewhere.

The details of the different departments are given in the
reports of the assistants in charge.

By the success of the Agassiz Memorial Fund,* the Trus-
tees and Faculty will be enabled, as soon as the contem-

~ plated additions to the buildings are erected, to carry out

the principal ideas of Prof. Agassiz for the arrangement of
a Museum.

The foundation will then be laid of an institution in which
the claims of college students, of teachers, of special students,

of advanced workers, and of original investigators will be

considered, as far as the means and space of the establish-

* For the details of the Memorial Fund see Appendix.

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ment will allow. The public will find in the exhibition-rooms
all that is likely to be of interest from the stores of the insti-
tution, labelled and arranged so as to be not only instructive,
but suggestive. Of course time alone will enable us to fill
out and complete this plan. We shall be compelled at first to
make a very unequal exhibition; but as the blanks become
apparent they will be filled. From our stores the necessary
materials for the constantly increasing number of students
are to be supplied, and one of the chief duties of the Curator
must always be to meet the reasonable demands of those
charged with the instruction, by supplying them with ample
materials suited to the wants of the different classes engaged
in study at the Museum. The special students will have at
their command, under proper regulations, in the store and
work-rooms of the assistants, the materials of the department
in which they are interested. To the original investigator
the resources of the Museum will always be available, under
generous restrictions, with facilities for the publication of
investigations made with Museum materials, as far as the
means of the institution will allow. On the completion of
the additions proposed at’ present, the Museum will thus con-
sist of several departments of natural history, formerly sep-
arated in the University, and now all more or less intimately
connected.

The number of exhibition-rooms will undoubtedly seem
small, compared with the total amount of space, to those who
are accustomed to wander through room after room of such
museums as the British Museum, the Jardin des Plantes;
and still smaller, when compared with the new museums con-
templated in London, Vienna, and Berlin. This brings us
to the fundamental difference existing between the two sys-
tems possible in museums: one of which is to place before the
public everything in a single series; the other to make such a
selection from the general collection, and also such other
combinations and special expositions, that, while the Museum
retains in its stores the archives of the science, the exhibi-
tion may place before the public an exposition of the prob-
lems of natural science in a condensed and easily intelligible
form.

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sistent with the safety of the collections. In these rooms the

_ furniture will of course be of the most economical character,
adapted to a proper preservation of the collections, and to
their ready access. By prompt distribution of the materials

received, everything should be at once taken to its place, and
the confusion as well as difficulty of keeping track of mate-

‘rials separated by imaginary lines in large rooms entirely

obviated.
The great. defect of museums in general is the immense
number of articles exhibited, compared with the small space

’ taken to explain what is shown. The visitor stands before

a case which may be exquisitely arranged, most carefully la-
belled, yet he does not know, and has no means of finding out, |
why that case is filled as it is; nothing tells him the purpose
for which it is there. The need of general labels, and a small
number of specimens properly selected to illustrate the labels,
would go far towards making a museum intelligible, not only
to the average visitor, but often to the professional naturalist.
The instruction which could thus be given without a special
guide is certainly very great, and a visit to a museum thus
arranged becomes of value, and cannot fail to leave some
impression. The advantage, therefore, of comparatively small
rooms intended for a special purpose, and for that purpose
alone, will overcome at once the objections to be made to
large halls where the visitor is lost in the maze of the
cases, which, to him, seem placed ‘without purpose, and
filled only for the sake of not leaving them empty. Of
course, as will be seen from the plans of the Museum, a
few large rooms are absolutely necessary for the proper
display of the few colossal mammals which must find their
way into every museum. The purpose to which a room is
devoted should not be known to the officers of the Museum
alone; the room itself is to be as distinctly labelled as a
single specimen. There must, then, again be general sub-
divisions of cases, properly labelled, and of certain categories
in the cases, until we come to the single tablet. Such an
arrangement is of course laborious, requires constant atten-
tion and alterations to represent the existing and past condi-

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tions of our knowledge ; but no museum where this is carried
out can become fossilized and lose its usefulness from being
buried in the arrangement made years before. There is
always in every room blank wall-space enough not available
for the exhibition of specimens, where such general informa-
tion can be permanently placed,—where enlarged figures of
animals, which can be exhibited in no other way, can be
painted, and thus add to the general attractiveness of the Mu-

seum. The conditions upon which the buik of the Memorial —

Fund was obtained limit its use for several years. It is hoped,
however, that, even after the proposed addition to the Museum
is completed, the endowment will still be large enough to
carry on the operations of the Museum with something like
their former activity. It has not been ‘thought unwise to
sacrifice a temporary brilliant existence to a permanent future ;
and it must be remembered by the friends of the University,
who have so often and so generously assisted us, that how-
ever large the funds at our disposal as compared to those of
other scientific departments of the College, our resources are
nevertheless meagre, contrasted with those of similar institu-
tions abroad. I may mention here, that, to place the Museum
on a level with corresponding establishments, each of its
several departments should have an income equal to that pro-
vided for the whole institution by its present endowment.
Until that is accomplished, we cannot hope to compete with,
much less to rival, the scientific activity of kindred institu-
tions in France, England, and Germany.

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REPORT ON THE MAMMALS AND BIRDS.

By J. A. ALLEN, Assistant in Ornithology.

_ There are few changes to report in respect to the collec-
tions of mammals and birds. The additions received during
the year have been duly registered and labelled, and the col-
lections, both alcoholic and dry, continue in safe condition.

‘During the year, the large Big-bone Lick collection of fossils

(chiefly bison remains), collected some years ago by Prof.
N. S. Shaler, has been assorted, marked, and catalogued.
The same has been done for the greater portion of the other
mammalian remains.

The additions during the year consist mainly of the collec-
tions made by Mr. S. W. Garman, about Lake ‘Titicaca, in |
Peru, embracing about one hundred species of birds and sey-
eral species of mammals, including skins and skeletons of the
different races of Auchenia found in Peru. In addition to

_ these is a valuable collection of monkeys, collected by Mr.

Garman in Central America. These collections have all been
presented to the Museum by Mr. Agassiz, under whose direc-
tion they were formed. The only other collections of note
are an invoice of some thirty species of birds and mammals
from India, presented by the Rev. M. M. Carleton, and an
invoice of about twenty-five species from Queensland, Aus-
tralia, received in exchange from Mr. Charles Coxen. Other
small lots have been received from Dr. T. M. Brewer, who
has given us a large series of eggs of birds, and from Messrs.

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REPORT ON SELACHIANS, BATRACHTANS, AND REPTILES.

By S. W. GARMAN.

Owing to the large amount of field work, since the last
report, less than half the year has been devoted to the usual
Museum work on the collections. The card catalogue, intro-
duced as an experiment in these departments, succeeds admir-
ably; its convenience, and the amount of time and labor
saved by its use, are found to be considerable.

Selachians.—During the year, an excellent lot of speci-
mens, from the North Sea, was added to this collection. Mr.
F. A. Bell presented a fine example of the panther shark,
from Natal. <A series of the Raje was sent to the Smith-
sonian Institution, and a number of specimens of different
genera and families have been given out to students. The
duplicates ‘are being prepared for distribution amongst the
correspondents of the Museum.

Batrachians and Reptiles.—The institution is indebted to
Col. Edward A. Flint of Peru, Allen Lesley, Esq., of Central
America, Rev. M. M. Carleton of India, Prof. N. S. Shaler
of Cambridge, Mrs. George E. Ryder of Cambridgeport, and

Prof. W. M. Osband of Michigan, for valuable additions to

these collections.

The explorations of Mr. Alex. Agassiz, in South America,
1874-75, secured many examples of species of which we had
no representatives. By exchanges with the Boston Society
of Natural History, animals new to the department are ob-
tained. A collection was forwarded to Prof. Osband. Vari-
ous specimens have been drawn by the college instructors for
the students. A number of large reptiles, only fit for skele-
tons, have been withdrawn from the alcoholic collection.

The additions to the catalogue of idéntifications, include
many Selachians and Reptiles, all of the European Batrachians,
and those of North America.

It is with pleasure these collochien: are reported in good
condition.

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REPORT ON THE FISHES.

By RicHARD BLIss, Jr.

During the past year there have been no additions in this
department, excepting a very valuable collection of. fishes
from Lake Titicaca, made by Mr. A. Agassiz and Mr. S. W.
Garman. The collection has been identified by Mr. Garman.
The fish skeletons, now stored in the attic, have been re-
arranged according to families, and the work of cataloguing
them has been begun. Mounted skeletons and stuffed speci-
mens have been placed in four of the gallery cases of the
large exhibition-room, the former having been selected and —
arranged with a view of affording students the best facilities —
for studying them as they stand in the cases. A small collec-

tion of typical specimens has been prepared for the use of Dr.

W. James, im his lectures and instruction to the undergradu-
ates. |

Aside from a general supervision of the large collection,
the work of identifying and cataloguing the specimens has
been steadily carried on. The Thayer, Hassler, Garrett, and

Pike collections, four of the largest in this department, are

now identified, and the process of selecting duplicates for dis-
tribution and exchange has been begun. This work is ren-
dered all the more necessary as the collection is too bulky to

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REPORT ON INSECTS.

By Dr. H. A. HAGEN, Assistant in Entomology.

Additions to the collection: from—

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Mr. J. H. Husparp, from Detroit, Mich. A large lot of speci-
mens for the biological collection, and Odonata.

Mr. E. Scuwanrz, from Detroit, Mich. Lepidoptera.

Mr. W. P. Austin. Specimens for the biological collection :
Diptera; Perlide from the White Mountains, N. H.

Mr. W. M. Davis, from Philadelphia, Penn. Biological speci-
mens.

Rev. M. M. Carterton, East India. A large collection of
Lepidoptera from the Himalaya; other insects in alcohol;
Water-Beetles and Hemiptera from Tanasur.

Mr. F. C. Bownitcuw, from Brookline, Mass. Neurop-
tera.

Mr. H. K. Morrison. Lepidoptera and biological specimens ;
Neuroptera from the White Mountains, N. H. (Exchange.)

Mr. H. K. Morrison. Diptera and Neuroptera from Glen and
Hermit’s Lake, White Mountains, N. H. (Purchased.)

Mr. H. L. Moopy, from Malden, Mass. Parasites of Diaph-
eromera femorata, and other biological specimens.

Mr. W. Saunpers, from London, Ontario, Canada. Lepidop-
tera, Diptera, Neuroptera.

Mr. H. Strecker, from Reading, Penn. A large lot of Lepi-
doptera,—American and foreign. (Exchange.)

Mr. Tuomas Briann, from New York. Zanzibar Copal, with
insects.

Mr. A. Acassiz and Mr. S. W. Garman. Insects from Peru,
Chili, and Ecuador,—dry and in alcohol.

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Dr. R. W. Hoover. Cocoon of Silkworms from Georgia.
Mr. FERNALD, from Orono, Me. Insects of several orders.
Mr. W. Putnam, from Davenport, Iowa. Neuroptera.

Mrs. M. de Cuavvin, from Freiburg, Baden. Phryganide
from Silesia.

Mr. L. Lesquerevx, from Columbus, Ohio. Biological speci-

mens of the potato-beetles.
Mr. Lestey, from San Pablo. Insects in alcohol.

Mr. H. J. Hupparp, from Detroit, Mich. A full set of the
different stages of the white ant, including the queen.

Mr. R. THaxter. Lepidoptera and Neuroptera from Florida
and Nova Scotia.

Rev. Tuomas Hix1, from Portland, Me. Coleoptera.

Baron VY. OstEen-Sacken. Insects of different orders from
New Jersey and the St. Lawrence River.

Mr. L. Tu. Harvey, from Buffalo, N. Y. Types of Noctuids
published by him.

Mr. A. R. Grote, from Buffalo, N. Y. Types of Noctuids
published by him. (Exchange.)

Mr. C. E. Wesster, Binghamton, N. Y. Lepidoptera.

Dr. Kipper, N. Y. Diptera and Psocus from Kerguelen
Island.

Mr. S. H. Scupper. Biological specimens.

Prof. N.S. SHater. Geological Survey of Kentucky ; insects
in alcohol.

Mr. Ph. R. Unter. Neuroptera from Colorado, from Prof.
Hayden’s Expedition.

Dr. C. A. Dourn, Zettin, Germany. A very large lot of
Coleoptera. (Exchange.)

Prof. Rosennaver, Erlangen, Bavaria. A very large biologi-
cal collection,—1,800 of all orders,—dry and in alcohol.
(Gray Fund.)

Dr. H. A. Hacen. Insects of several orders.

The additions to the collection have been unusually large
and valuable. The biological collection from Prof. Rosen-
hauer, containing 1,800 species from all orders, arrived in

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perfect condition. Together with the biological collections
of the Museum, this branch of the collection is a very prom-
inent one, and, so far as I know, unsurpassed ,—I can say,
unrivalled. With the help of Mr. Trowbridge, all alcoholic
objects are arranged in vials, with rubber stoppers. The
large addition by the collection of Prof. Rosenhauer, and the
considerable addition of the last year, necessitates a new
arrangement of the biological collection. The Bombycide,
Noctuide and Geometride, are arranged by myself, and fill
more than two cabinets.

In January, Mr. E. Schwarz arranged some families of the
United States Coleoptera. .

The alarming and rather perplexing condition in which the
collection of the Longicorns had been left by Mr. Crotch
made a new arrangement of them unavoidable. It took nearly
three months to arrange them. The collection of Longicorns
of the United States was arranged at the same time. Instead
of 3,500 specimens bought from Deyrolle, there are at pres-
ent—including all that the Museum possessed before—only
1,850 determined, and about 600 species not named.

During the winter months a large number of Aimalaya
Lepidoptera have been spread by Miss Clark. At the present
time she is pinning and labelling the alcoholic Coleoptera.
The exchanges with a number of entomologists in the United
States and Europe were quite considerable.

A synopsis of the Odonata of America was published in
the Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. A
course of lectures on general entomology is given in the winter
months. |

The summer of 1875 has been a very favorable one for
insects. It was one of those years which appear from time
to time, often separated by intervals of many years, when a
large number of rare species are taken. In the course of this
summer the collection has been augmented by more rarities
of North American insects than in several years put together.

In the exhibition-rooms the cabinets for the insects are
nearly filled.

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REPORT ON THE DIPTERA.

By R. OsTEN-SACKEN.

The principal work which occupied me during the past —

2 year was the working up of the Tabanide of the collection.
_ The result of this work appeared in the Memoirs of the Bos-
_ ton Society of the Natural Sciences ; as, Prodrome of a Mono-
_ graph of the Tabanide of the United States: Part I. The

second part is in type. All the typical specimens of this
- monograph are in the collection of the Museum. Im a similar
_ manner, a smaller monographic essay on the American species
_ of the genus Syrphus, was prepared in putting in order the

_ were but few.

1. Dr. Kidder, who accompanied one of the United States
_ Astronomical Expeditions in 1874, brought three remarkable
species of wingless, or almost wingless, Diptera from Ker-
guelen’s Island.
2. Mr. Bélanger, Curator of the Museum in Quebec, sent
. a considerable collection, consisting of numbered duplicates,
for determination ; they all remained for the Museum.

3. Mr. E. Palmer sent a small but interesting collection
from the Island of Guadeloupe and the Pacific Ocean. (In-
_serted a notice about them in the Proceedings of the Boston
Society of Natural History in October.)

4. A collection from the environs of Detroit, Mich., was
_ presented by Mr. Hubbard.

_ 5. Some interesting Diptera from the environs of Boston
were given by Mr. Bowditch; from the White Mountains by
_ Mr. George Dimmock.

6. I acquired a number of Diptera, collected by Mr. H. K.
Morrison in the White Mountains, some of them new to the
7 Museum ; some useful duplicates.

Besides Mr. Bélanger’s collection, I named several smaller
collections, sent to me for that purpose.

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REPORT ON THE CRUSTACEA.

By WALTER FAxoN, Assistant in the Zoological Laboratory.

The early part of the year was employed in determining
and arranging the fossil Crustacea. A set, including the
principal genera represented in the collection, has been
mounted on tablets, and is now exhibited to the public. This
collection is especially rich in species from Solenhofen and in
North American and Bohemian T'rilobites.

The work of identifying the recent species has been begun
and carried through the Oxyryncha. A collection of one
hundred and thirty-seven species has lately been returned
from the Jardin des Plantes. The Maiotds from the dredg-
ings of Stimpson and the “Hassler,” sent to Paris in the
spring of 1874, have also been returned. Among these are
types of seven new genera and twelve new species, described
by M. Alphonse Milne-Edwards.

The most valuable additions to the department during the
year are the interesting forms dredged in Lake Titicaca by
Mr. Agassiz, in Lake Superior by the United States Lake
Survey, and the collection of Bohemian Trilobites from Bar-
rande.

New material has been derived from the following sources :—

Agassiz, A. Eight Palemon Gaudichaudii from Arequipa, Peru ;
Amphipoda’ and Cyprids dredged in Lake Titicaca; mixed lot
from the Isles of Pearls, Panama Bay.

BARRANDE, J. One hundred and ninety species, 3,492 specimens of
Trilobites from Bohemia. (From the Gray Fund.)

Bott, J. Five species, 27 specimens from Dallas, Texas.
CarLeton, Rev. M. M. Estheriz from Kooloo Valley, N. India.

Comstock, Gen. C. B. Five species from Lake Superior. (U.S.
Lake Survey.)

Gass, W.M. Nine fossil Crustacea from San Domingo.

GE LOGICAL Rist ‘Gineek Prof. N S. Soiree
_ Astac dee aia Isopoda from Cumberland Gap.

Sapp DEN, W.P. Fourteen fossil Merostomata from Upper Ludlow
% | ‘Beds of Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire. (By exchange.)

, Prof. S.I. Eight species fresh-water Crustacea.
J. A bdlue Homarus Americanus.

Ya RROW, Dr. H.C. Eleven Apus equalis, 10 Estheria, from New he
_ Mexico. (U. S. Exploring Expedition, west of 100th merid.)

REPORT ON THE DEPARTMENT OF CONCHOLOGY.

By JoHN G. ANTHONY, Assistant in Conchology.

In my last report, I mentioned that the Pease collection of
shells, purchased some time previously, was then under a
process of identification and incorporation with our previous
collection. The plan pursued required a complete revision
and reidentification of all the species then on hand, and was
necessarily a slow and laborious undertaking. It was, how-
ever, thought advisable to make the work so critical and
thorough that it would not be necessary to recur to it again
for a long period.

The same plan has been pursued during the entire year now
drawing to a close, and a very considerable progress hds been
made. I can now state definitely that upwards of eleven
thousand species have been carefully examined, named, and
roughly catalogued, preparatory to being copied into the
Record Book which has been so long waiting for this purpose.

So far as we have proceeded up to this time, we have dealt
with univalve shells alone, reserving our bivalves for next
year’s study. In this examination and identification I have
had the assistance of Prof. Hamlin, all the marine gasteropods
having passed under his revision, while my own labors have
been mainly directed to the careful examination and revision
of the fluviatile and terrestrial forms.

As fast as identified, the species have been mounted on glass
or slate tablets by my daughter, whose skill in that line leaves

nothing to wish for, and have then been arranged in genera

@nd sub-genera, after the most approved plan known to me.
The space allotted for shells will not admit of all being placed
on exhibition; but so far as practicable, they have been made

available for the purpose of study by those devoted to this _

branch of natural history, and by the public generally.
The plan adopted of placing our more delicate specimens in
glass tubes before being mounted on tablets, has proved emi-

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shells from injury, but also obviates one great objection con-
stantly brought against mounting shells on tablets, since this
plan admits of all sides of a specimen being examined without

removal, and is moreover particularly adapted to the minuter

forms. |

Our usual exchanges have been continued, though the
number of packages and specimens received or sent away has
scarcely been as great as in many previous years. Our col-
lection being so large already, we have had no inducement or
wish to solicit miscellaneous or indiscriminate exchanges, and

hence we have in all cases restricted correspondents to such

forms as would furnish us with new or specially desirable
species, and have particularly sought for type specimens from

authors engaged in describing new species. During the year

we have received from 24 contributors 27 packages, containing
1,192 species and 13,683 specimens. Many of these were rare
types, sent by authors, or else species seldom attainable, and
hence of unusual value.

Some of the parcels received deserve more than a passing
notice. Among these I may mention two packages from Mons.
A. Morelet, containing mostly species described by him, and
derived from localities seldom visited by collectors.

Our old correspondent, Dr. Dohrn, from whom we have
hitherto received so many favors, has again laid us under obli-
gations, by furnishing many rare and choice species from
Morocco, the Red Sea, Bolivia, and Ecuador. His last box,
just received, contained more than forty species entirely new
to me.

Our friends, Messrs. Garrett, Geale, Bland, Count Kornis,
and others, have also kindly remembered us from time to time,
sending us valuable contributions, for which we desire to return

them our sincere thanks. From the first named we received

340 species, all collected by himself, mostly in the Feejee
Islands, and the localities being carefully noted renders them
unusually valuable.
The number of packages sent to correspondents has been
32, containing 2,125 species and 7,328 specimens.
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REPORT ON THE ALCOHOLIC MOLLUSCA.

By J. HENry BLAKE.

A portion only of my time has been employed in the -
customary work of this collection; during the past year it has
been concentrated in the basement of the building.

The Chitons in the collection have been forwarded to Dr.
P. P. Carpenter, Montreal, for identification, and with the
exception of those kept for a particular purpose, all have been
identified and safely returned by him.

The collection from Mr. Henry Hemphill, mentioned in last
year’s report, has been identified and distributed.

There are still unassorted specimens belonging to different
collections. They include mainly late invoices, and the
collection dredged during the Hassler voyage, all of which
are still in the bottles and small boxes in which they arrived
at the Museum.

The collection, however, with the exception of the cases
mentioned above, is in a safe condition, and the adopted tem-
porary arrangement renders the whole quite accessible.

Few additions have been made to the collection ; the most
valuable being rare specimens from different parts of Lake
Titicaca, South America, dredged by Mr. Alex. Agassiz,
assisted by Mr. S. W. Garman; also by same party specimens
from the Pear] Islands, Panama Bay.

REPORT ON THE FOSSIL CEPHALOPODA.

By Prof. A. Hyatt. | i

“a | ES Since the last time that the collection of fossil Cephalopods |

__was noted in the Museum Reports, the condition of the collec-

_ tion has been considerably improved. =

All of the Jurassic Ammonites have been prepared for

_ mounting, and all of those belonging to the Liassic and Oolitic
a ~ formations mounted and eaialoead:

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REPORT ON RADIATA.

By L. F. Pourtatzs, Keeper of the Museum.

During the last year the large quantity of duplicate corals
on hand have been classified and put in order. A catalogue
of them has been prepared, so that they are now more readily
available for exchange or distribution. Several sets have
been selected and sent to parties to whom the Museum was
indebted for collections received.

From the catalogue, it appears that the Museum has now on
hand, in the duplicate room, 6,463 specimens, representing
334 species. There are on exhibition 566 species of living,
and 479 species of fossil corals. The alcoholic specimens
and the Alcyoniria have not yet been placed on exhibition.

The general collection of fossil corals is now being revised,
and a card catalogue of them is in preparation by Miss Hyde,
who also catalogued and arranged the duplicates.

The collection of Ophiuride and Astrophytide, under Mr.
Lyman, has been enriched by numerous preparations of the.
hard parts, which have been mounted by Miss Clark.

The horny sponges have been revised by Prof. Hyatt, and
those which had not been named by Prof. Oscar Schmidt have
been determined.

The additions to this department have not been large
during the year. Mr. Gabb has made an additional donation
of tertiary fossil corals from Santo Domingo, and Mr. Agassiz
brought some interesting ones from Peru.

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REPORT ON THE INSTRUCTION IN GEOLOGY AND PALZONTOLOGY.

By Prof. N. S. SHALer, Assistant in Paleontology.

> During the academic year 1874—5, two courses of instruc-
tion were given,—one in Geology, the other in Palxontol-
. ogy. The first of these was attended by thirty students; the
second by six students. The instruction in geology was
given by lectures based on Lyell’s Principles of Geology, by
field work on the geology of the environs of Cambridge,
and by laboratory work. This latter included the drawing
of geological models and the study of the principles of deter-
: mining organic remains as applied to characteristic fossils.
The Paleontology was taught by lectures and laboratory
work. In both these courses, at least nine hours a week of
attendance was required.

In order to supplement this instruction, a summer school
of Geology and Paleontology was organized in connection
with the Kentucky Geological Survey at Cumberland Gap,
‘Kentucky. This was attended by several students and by
about twenty-five teachers from various schools and colleges.
Ten teachers, including five assistants of the Kentucky sur-
vey, and the state geologists of Tennessee, North Carolina
and Kentucky, took part in the instruction in this summer
: school. Large collections were made, a part of which will be
| deposited in the students’ collection of the Museum. Con-
- __ siderable advance has been made in the preparation of the
collection designed for instruction of students. About two
hundred drawers of specimens for the illustration of the
: teaching in Geology and Paleontology have already been set
| aside and in good part arranged. Before the year is out, this
collection will begin to crowd the teaching-rooms in a fearful
manner.

A “question guide to the geology of the environs of
Boston” has been prepared, and Part I., concerning the

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REPORT ON THE INSTRUCTION IN ZOOLOGY.

By Prof. JouN McCrapy, Assistant in Zodlogy.

During the year 1874-5, I gave two courses of lectures _
on a one including the Protashs and Radiata, and the ©
: Bor the Mollusca, Articulate and Vertebrata. This was_ .
BG feaiented by laboratory work by undergraduates, under 7
the immediate supervision of Mr. Faxon, but under my —
a general direction, and by constant practical investigations by | an
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REPORT ON THE LIBRARY

By Miss SLACK.

During the year there have been added to the library 964
volumes, parts of volumes, and pamphlets.

Complete works, . : ‘ . : é , volumes, 159
Transactions, current and of past years, : . cs 106
66 66 66 66 é6 : 2 parts, 881
Pamphlets, . : : - 5 . : : : « ods
964

There have been received from the following sources,—

Mr. Avex. Acassiz: 116 volumes, 140 parts, and 124 pam-
phlets, . ; ; : : : : : . 380

Library of Louis Aeaaee? 119 volumes and 135 pamphlets, 254

Bought: 3 volumes and 8 parts, : : : :

Societies: 93 volumes and 140 parts, . : : : . 2383

Mr. T. Lyman: 6 volumes of photographs,

M. Cu. Desmovutins: 5 volumes,

Department of the Interior: Geological tales ey,

Mr. L. F. Pourtatss, : .

Profs. Barrp, E. T. Cox, and F. v. ne ani 1 volte

W.H. Dati: pamphlets, .

Dr. E. v. Martens: pamphlets,

Messrs. S. I. Smirn and HarceEr: pamphlets:

Mr. F. W. Putnam: pamphlets, .

The Marquis DE Fortin, Mr. 8S. W. Garman, Mons. E. Hines
Mr. Greorce Lawrence, Mr. R. Ratusun, Prof. A. E.
VERRILL, Lt. G. W. WHEELER, and Bureau of Education,
each, 2 pamphlets, . ; 2 es

Messrs. J. A. ALLEN, N. Bateman, pies Bane, DE. ee
Cougs, Prof. James D. Dana, Count Hugo, Prof. O. C.
Marsu, and Department of the Interior, each, 1 pamphlet, 8

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PHILADELPHIA, April 28, 1875,
1625 SpRUCcE STREET. ‘

My Dear Sir :—For the better preservation of the types of North
American Coleoptera contained in my collection, I wish to have it
placed, after my death, in the Museum of Comparative Zodlogy, in
Cambridge, Massachusetts.

I am moved thereto, not only by the belief that the organization ©
of your Museum, and the climate of Cambridge, are favorable for
the preservation of perishable objects of natural history, but also
because I desire, in illustrating the Museum established by Prof. |
L. Agassiz, to testify the strong affection I had for him.

I need not mention the value which my collection has for the

future study of the Coleoptera of the United States; for, besides |
type specimens of nearly all the species described by me, it contains
specimens carefully compared with those described by Say, Harris,
Melsheimer, Haldemann, and Ziegler, and all the unique types of the
three last-named authors.
_ It has been also enriched by the extreme liberality and courtesy of
many distinguished European entomologists, who have sent to me
even the second specimens of many of the North American species,
which were otherwise unattainable, at that time. I have thus a
nearly complete series of those species described from the western
coast by Eschscholtz, Mannerheim and Maklin.

I trust that it may be consistent with the funds of the Museum to

_ retain permanently the services of an experienced entomological

curator, with sufficient assistance to keep in order and protect the
vast collection now being assembled.

I would suggest that, for ordinary study, type collections should
not be opened freely, but that, by accurate comparison with authen-
tic types, a separate collection for easy reference should be formed
as rapidly as by purchase, or otherwise, material may be procured.

When these separate collections become tolerably perfect, as must

- result after a moderate time, the typical collections would be seldom

consulted, only by those who were engaged in monographic work,
or in authenticating specimens for the more public collections.

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It is also important, for the preservation of entomological collec-
tions, that a rigid inspection should be made of each box of speci-
mens, at least twice a year; and I would therefore suggest that it
should be a permanent and stringent rule of the Entomological
Department, to have such an inspection regularly made, and its
results reported to the Director of the Museum.

In addition to the recommendations above made, I would urge
strongly the necessity of preserving, in type collections, all the
original labels of the author; these are sometimes removed for the
sake of producing uniformity of appearance, which, however pleas-
ing to the eye, occasionally gives rise to confusion.

If these views be acceptable to you, please signify to me your
approval, and I will, without delay, send you an order upon the

executors of my estate, to deliver to you, or your successors in)

office, my entomological collection. This order will be available, in
case of my death, if the collection is not sooner placed in the
Museum.

I would mention, the boxes used by me are very. convenient for
constant study, and for permanent protection could be readily
placed, by pairs, in tight glass-covered drawers, similar to those
now in use in the Museum.

With my best wishes for the future extension and prosperity of
the Museum, I remain, as ever,

Very Sincerely yours,
JOHN L. LECONTE.

ALEXANDER AGaAssiz, Esq., Museum of Comparative Zoilogy, Cambridge, Mass.

PHILADELPHIA, May 13, 1875.
1625 SpRucE STREET. ‘

My Dear Sir :—TI have directed my executors, in a clause of my
will, to deliver to the Trustees of the Museum of Comparative
Zoology, at Cambridge, my entire collection of insects, with the
pieces of furniture in which the boxes are contained.

I send you this note, in order that when the time comes for the
fulfilment of this bequest, you may designate, by proper indorse-
ment, or other separate note, the person authorized to receive and
transport to Cambridge, the collection, in such manner that it may
receive no damage.

In regard to matters of general policy affecting the care and use |

of typical collections of such extremely perishable objects, I have
expressed my views in a previous communication, and I am glad to

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learn from your letter, on the 10th instant, that they have your
entire concurrence, and that many of them have, in fact, been
already provided for in the Museum.

Very truly yours,

JOHN L. LECONTE.
A. AGAssiz, Esq.

: Boston, May 10, 1875.

Dear Sir :—I have no objection to your saying to your Trustees
that I design my collection to your Museum, and that while I live I
shall hold it only as its trustee, and moreover intend to do my
utmost to increase its value. This intention on my part is known
to and is approved by my family, and also has the cordial approval
of Prof. Baird, who freely allows me to take from their collections
to increase both the varieties and add to the new species. This
intention I made known to your father about two years ago, and
since then I have given a good deal of time to perfect the marking
and cataloguing of the collection. This is now completed so that
any one understanding the subject could arrange all my known
species. -

In numbers my collection is about as large as the famous Des
Murs collection, but much richer in North American egos, and
second in that respect to the Smithsonian alone, while the latter
has very few foreign.

It is my intention, if I live long enough, to have a series of
cabinets made and so arranged that the eggs may be examined
without injury from handling, light, or dust. If I am not able to do
this, I will have to trust to your Museum to supplement my imper-
fections.

I take to Europe with me about 1,200 duplicates for exchanges,
and hope to bring back with me both more complete series of what
I have and many entirely new species. About two-fifths of my
collection is North American, about two-sevenths European, about

-one-fourteenth, each, West Indian, South American, and African ;

the balance, Asiatic and Australian.

You may say, too, to your Trustees, that in the interim, all the
nests of interest that may come into my possession, or that I can
procure, go to supplement, as it were in advance, the collection of
eggs to come, either with their eggs, or where I wish to retaim
them, the latter are marked to their connection.

For some years to come I shall need to use my collection in my

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studies and writings, and I intend that my retention of them shall |
only add to their future value and interest.

Excuse the haste with which I have had to write this, but I think
you will understand just how the matter stands, and that you are at
liberty to claim a prospective interest in my collection.

Yours,
T. M. BREWER.

ALEXANDER AGASSIZ, Esq.

* New York, April 30, 1875.
Dear Sir :—I beg you will consider my collection of Corbiculidz
from henceforward as the property of the Museum, whether the
affair of the catalogue come to anything or not. I make this dona-
tion to the Museum free of any conditions or restrictions whatever.
If in a few years we do not see our way clear to the publication of a
catalogue, I will then send the collection to Cambridge.

Yours, very truly,
TEMPLE PRIME.

To ALEX. AGASSIZ.

At a meeting of the President and Fellows of Harvard College,
in Boston, June 28, 1875,—

Voted, That the specimens belonging to the University, which
remain in the Anatomical Museum in Boylston Hall, be deposited
until the further order of this Board in the Museum of Compara-
tive Zoology.

A true copy of record. Attest:
A. G. DAVIS, Clerk.

ALEXANDER AGassIZ, Esq., Cambridge, Mass.

40 COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. —[Jan.

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THE AGASSIZ MEMORIAL.

Boston, Jan. 1, 1876.

To ALEXANDER Agassiz, Esq., Curator of the Museum of Comparative Zodlogy,
Cambridge, Mass.

Dear Sir :—At a meeting of the Agassiz Memorial Committee,
held December 11, 1875, it was voted that the Secretary, with the
aid of the Chairman of the Finance Committee, be instructed to
prepare and forward to the Curator of the Museum a full account of
the doings of the Agassiz Memorial Committee, with a request that
the same be inserted as an appendix in the annual report of said
Curator to the Committee on the Museum.

I beg to hand you herewith the report called for by the above
vote of the Committee, and to request that you will cause the same
to be appended to the next annual report to the legislature made by
the Committee of the Museum.

Respectfully yours,

ROGER WOLCOTT,

Secretary Agassiz Memorial Committee.

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The following circular was issued in February, 1874 :—

Dear Sim :—At an informal gathering of some of the friends of the
late Prof. Agassiz, it was resolved to call a meeting to consider the
establishment of a memorial to him.

You are invited to be present at this meeting, which will be held at
Wesleyan Hall, No. 36 Bromfield Street, at 11 a. m., on Friday next, the
138th inst. ;

JOHN A. LOWELL, Chairman.

THEODORE LYMAN,

JOHN M. FORBEs,

JAMES L. LITTLE,

JAMES M. BARNARD, ~

EDWARD H. CLARKE,

MARTIN BRIMMER,
Committee.

In accordance with the above circular, a meeting was held, at
which a committee was appointed to take measures to raise a fund
for the Agassiz Memorial.

The meeting was largely attended, and was called to order by
Mr. Augustus T. Perkins. Hon. Robert C. Winthrop was called to
the chair. At the request of the Chairman, Col. Theodore Lyman
stated the purpose of the meeting to be the establishment of a

-memorial to the late Prof. Louis Agassiz. The most fitting memo-

rial must be the completion of his life’s work. The completion of
the Museum in accordance with his plans, and its liberal endowment,
would be of infinite value to the educational interests of the whole
country. To do this, the sum of $300,000 is required.

Prof. William B. Rogers spoke of the national importance of the
enterprise, and expressed the hope that the Commonwealth of Mas-
sachusetts and the liberal men of Boston would carry the enterprise
erandly and speedily to its consummation.

Hon. George B. Loring said that he did not doubt that the Com-
monwealth, proud of her adopted son, would gladly join her citizens
in perpetuating the memory of one who had done so much in the
cause of education and to honor the country of his adoption.

_Mr. Ralph Waldo Emerson said that of the scientific eminence of

Agassiz he could not speak of his own knowledge, but he, in com-

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mon with all who knew Agassiz, could testify to the broad humanity,
the genial charm, and true disinterestedness of his character.

Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes compared the unfinished work of
Agassiz to a cathedral left incomplete at the death of the architect.
In each case the noblest memorial is the completion of the work.
Like St. Paul’s Cathedral, this would be the truest and most lasting
monument to him who had planned it.

On motion of Mr. James M. Barnard, the Chair was requested to
appoint a committee of not less than thirty, with power to add to
their number, whose duty it should be to take measures to raise a
fund for the Agassiz Memorial.

The Chair announced the following-named persons as constituting
the Committee :—

John A. Lowell.
Nathaniel Thayer.

J. Ingersoll Bowditch.
Edward H. Clarke.

George T. Bigelow.
John M. Forbes.
Abbott Lawrence.
Theodore Lyman.

Sebastian B. Schlesinger.

Martin Brimmer.
James M. Barnard.

E. R. Mudge.

James L. Little.
Moses Kimball.
George B. Loring.
John Cummings.
George C. Richardson.

Prof. William B. Rogers.

Roger Wolcott.
Alpheus Hardy.
Otis Norcross.
Francis E. Parker.
Edward J. Lowell.
Alexander H. Rice.
O. W. Holmes, Jr.

H. Cabot Lodge.

Lewis Cabot.

William Gaston.

Prof. Benjamin Peirce.

Charles Francis Adams.

Henry P. Kidder.

Augustur Flagg.

T. G. Cary.

Prof. James Hall, Albany.

Prof. James D. Dana, New Haven.
Prof. A. Guyot, Princeton.

Dr. J. H. Rauch, Chicago.

Pres. Gillman, San Francisco.
Dr. H. Wheatland, Salem.

Pres. A. S. White, Ithaca.

Pres. Caswell, Providence.

Prof. Joseph Henry, Washington.
Prof. N. S. Shaler, Cincinnati.
Pres. Barnard, New York.

Prof. J. P. Lesley, Philadelphia.
Dr. George Engelman, St. Louis.

To this Committee were subsequently added the names of Geo.
P. King, E. P. Whipple, Chas. L. Peirce, Thomas G. Appleton, and
William S. Appleton of Boston, Prof. Joseph Leidy and Prof. Fair-
man Rogers of Philadelphia, and George Davidson and Thomas S.
Hoyt of San Francisco.

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four subscribers.
The meeting was then dissolved.

The Committee appointed as above held a meeting immediately
after the general meeting, and completed their organization by the
choice of Hon. George T. Bigelow as permanent Chairman, S. B.
Schlesinger as Treasurer, and Roger Wolcott as Secretary.

Col. Lyman, Dr. Clarke, and Prof. Rogers were appointed by the
Chair a sub-committee to prepare and issue an address explaining
the urgent need of a large fund, in order to insure the permanent
usefulness of the Museum, and inviting subscriptions from all parts
of the United States, and from all persons in Europe interested in
the advance of science.

Mr. James M. Barnard, referring to Prof. Agassiz’s modest recital
of himself in his will as ‘‘ Teacher,” suggested that the teachers and
pupils of the public schools of the United States should be invited
to join in the establishment of the Memorial, as the best means
of giving to it a national character, and that whatever sum might
be raised in this manner should constitute a separate fund to be
called the Teachers and Pupils’ Fund.

The Chair appointed Messrs. James M. Barnard and Edward J.
Lowell a sub-committee, with full powers to carry out this sugges-
tion.

The Addresses issued by these sub-committees were widely circu-
lated. A copy of each is given herewith.

“ Tt cannot be too soon understood that Science is one; and that, whether we investi-

gate language, philosophy, theology, history, or physics, we are dealing with the same

problem, culminating in the knowledge of ourselves.” —L. AGASSIZ.

In removing Louis AGassiz, death has deprived us of one who, for the
last quarter of a century, has done more than any other person to stimu-
late in this country the study of Nature, and a spirit of scientific investi-
gation. Twenty-eight years ago he left Switzerland, his native land, for
the United States, and became an American citizen. Those twenty-eight
years he gave to unremitted labor in behalf of that higher education,
which, by the public at large, was little understood. His interest was

‘confined to no town or State, to no individual or class. He journeyed

much ; and, wherever he went, there his pupils were. He might have
rested on the reputation he brought from Europe, and, by lecturing and
writing, have made a fortune. Such a life, however, he would not, or
perhaps could -not, live. At the age of sixty-seven his brain gave way,
and he died, leaving no wealth but his name, his example, and his works,

It would not be grateful for the country, nor would it be for the coun-
try’s interest, that Agassiz should pass away without a fitting memorial.
Such a memorial can be made out of the great Museum which he began

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and partially built, and for the completion of which he has left full direc-
tions. Completed, it would be a perpetual fountain of knowledge, ad a
monument quick with his spirit.

“ Museum,” a word that commonly suggests little more than a collec-
tion of curious objects, is scarcely an appropriate name for the memorial
that Agassiz ought to have. The Museum he labored for is a presenta-
tion of the animal kingdom,—fossil and living,—arranged so as to pict-
ure the creative thought. The .study of such a subject is the highest to
which the human mind can aspire.

At the end of the nineteenth century, no nation, least of all the Amer-
ican, may dare to lag in science; for science is only another word for
knowledge, and knowledge is the source of power, and of whatever con-
tributes to power. All knowledge springs from one root; and the sap
matured in the root flows through every twig of the tree: what is elabo-
rated in the leaf in its turn nourishes the roots Few distinctions are so
groundless as the popular one between “ practical” and “ scientific.”

Three or four generations since, learned men wondered why the rub-
bing of sealing-wax should make it pick up scraps of paper; what light-
ning was; and why the muscles of a frog’s leg should twitch without
apparent cause. What, to-day, has resulted from the study of these
observations? The electrotype of the printer, the plated-ware on our
tables, the telegraph across the Atlantic, the determination of longitude,
the knowledge of the nervous system,—these, and a hundred other
things, so important to our modern civilization, have resulted from the
abstract studies of Volta, Franklin, and Faraday.

Not long ago the silk-worms, a main source of wealth to Southern
France and to Lombardy, were dying; nobody knew why. Prof. Corna-
lia said: “ The worms are destroyed by a mouldy growth on their bodies.
The spores, or germs, may be seen by the microscope in the blood of the

parent moth. Here is the remedy: each moth’s eggs must be collected ©

separately ; then the blood of the moth must be examined, and all eggs
of unhealthy parents must be destroyed.” So the microscopists saved
the silk-growers of Italy and France.

Every workman must have his tools: the tools of a zodlogist are col-
lections of natural objects systematically arranged. Such an arrange-
ment means the exhibition of the animal creation in its natural order.
This is one of the prime difficulties of science, which taxes the powers
of the greatest genius. So difficult is it, indeed, that no two. leaders of
zoology have ever exactly agreed in their views; and it is only by com-
paring these views that the student can judge for himself. Of what

incalculable value would collections be, if such had been arranged by

Linnzeus in Sweden, by Oken in Germany, by Cuvier in France! But
such museums do not exist. Even the great collections of Cuvier are
mingled with those of his opponents, like a book culled from the works
of many authors. In this country we may have such a museum, if we
choose. The celebrated System of Nature of Linnzus can be studied
only in books. We may and should have Agassiz’s System of Nature
illustrated by the specimens which his own hands have set in order. It
is for our people to say whether they will neglect this magnificent oppor-

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future may not give.

The Museum of Comparative Zodlogy at Cambridge is an independent
establishment, governed by a faculty of its own.
years ago by Agassiz, and has grown to its present large proportions
under his hand. In connection with it is the newly-established School of
Experimental Zodlogy on the Islantl of Penikese, endowed by Mr. Ander-
son of New York. The system of instruction has the widest character,
and includes elementary teaching, as well as the highest investigations.
_The exhibition-rooms are free to the public. Large sums have already
been expended in bringing this national museum to its present condition.
Its collections, in several branches, are superior to those of the British
To make such an establishment use-
ful, it must have a large building, and-a considerable annual income for
the payment of professors and assistants. To perfect the grand plan
conceived by Agassiz will require at least three hundred thousand dol-
lars, of which about one-third would be used in enlarging the building,

Museum or the Garden of Plants.

and two-thirds would be funded.

It is to be hoped that the people of America, for whom Agassiz unsel-
fishly labored, and among whom he spent the best portion of his life,
will not hesitate to carry on the work he began.
teachings have benefited every section of the country. The Museum he
planned and founded will, if suitably endowed, become an ever-increas-
ing source of scientific and practical usefulness to the nation and the
world. We cannot doubt, therefore, that this appeal will be answered
by the public in the same generous spirit in which Agassiz devoted his
genius to the furtherance of science and to the advancement of education

among us.

But we would not appeal to the friends of liberal culture in this coun-
try alone. The works and the example of Agassiz are the precious
legacy left by him to all nations; and we feel sure that in the great
centres of scientific activity in the Old World, where his genius received
its first impulses and achieved its earliest triumphs, there will be felt an
earnest desire to aid in a work, which, while commemorating the labors
and influence of Agassiz, will be an enduring source of scientific discoy-

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Agassiz Memorial Commitice.

JOHN A. LOWELL.
NATHANIEL THAYER.
GEORGE T. BIGELOW.
JOHN M. FORBES.
ABBOTT LAWRENCE.
THEODORE LYMAN.
SEBASTIAN B. SCHLESINGER.
MARTIN BRIMMER.
JAMES M. BARNARD.
E R. MUDGE.

James L. LITTLE.
Moses KIMBALL.

Francis E. PARKER.
EDWARD J. LOWELL.

, ALEXANDER H. RICE.

O. W. HoLmeEs, Jr.

J. INGERSOLL BOWDITCH.
E. P. WHIPPLE.

Dr. EDWARD H. CLARKE.
H. Casot LopGE. *
LEWIs CABOT.

WILLIAM GASTON.

Prof. BENJAMIN PEIRCE.

CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS.

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GEORGE B. LORING.

JOHN CUMMINGS.

GEORGE C, RICHARDSON,
Prof. WILLIAM B. ROGERS.
ROGER WOLCOTT.
ALPHEUS HARDY.

Otis NORCROSS.

Prof. JAMES HALL, Albany.

Prof. JAMES D. Dana, New Haven.

Prof. A. Guyot, Princeton.
Dr. J. H. Raucu, Chicago.
Pres. GILLMAN, San Francisco.
Dr. H. WHEATLAND, Salem.
Pres. A. D. WHITE, Ithaca.
Pres. CASWELL, Providence.

Prof. JosepH HENRY, Washington.

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HENRY P. KIDDER.

AUGUSTUS FLAGG.

T. G. Cary.

GEORGE P. KING.

THOMAS G. APPLETON.

WILLIAM S. APPLETON.
* CHARLES L. PEIRCE.

Prof. N. S. SHALER, Cincinnati.
Pres. BARNARD, New York.

J OHN ANDERSON, New York.
Prof. J. P. LESLEY, Philadelphia.
Dr. GEO. ENGELMAN, St. Louis.
Prof. JosEpH LxErpy, Philadelphia.
Prof. FAIRMAN ROGERS, “
GEORGE DAVIDSON, San Francisco.
THomas S. Hoyt, * vi

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N. B.—Subscriptions may be sent to Sebastian B. Schlesinger, Esq.,
Treasurer of the Committee, 6 Oliver Street, Boston.

THE AGASSIZ MEMORIAL TEACHERS AND PUPILS’ FUND.
Boston, March 10, 1874.
Louis AGASSIZ, TEACHER. This was the heading of his simple will;
this was his chosen title: and it is well known throughout this country,
and in other lands, how much he has done to raise the dignity of the
profession, and to improve its methods. His friends, the friends of edu-

cation, propose to raise a memorial to him, by placing upon a strong and -

enduring basis the work to which he devoted his life,—the Museum of
Comparative Zoology, which is at once a collection of natural objects,
rivalling the most celebrated collections of the Old World, and a school
open to all the teachers of the land.

It is proposed that the teachers and pupils of the whole country take
part in this memorial, and that on the birthday of Agassiz, the twenty-
eighth day of May, 1874, they shall each contribute something, however
small, to the TEACHERS AND PUPILS’ MEMORIAL FunpD, in honor of LOUIS
AGassiz; the fund to be kept separate, and the income to be applied to
the expenses of the Museum.

JOHN EATON, Commissioner of Education, Washington, D. C.
JOSEPH HENRY, Sec’y of the Smithsonian Inst'n, Washington, D. C.
JOSEPH WHITE, Sec’y of the Board of Education of Mass., Boston.
W. T. Harris, Superintendent Public Schools, St. Louis, Mo.
EDWARD J. LOWELL, Boston.

JOHN S. BLATCHFORD, Boston.

JAS. M. BARNARD, Treasurer Teachers and Pupils’ Fund, Boston.

All communications and remittances for the “Teachers and Pupils’
Fund” of the ‘Agassiz Memorial” may be sent to the Treasurer,

JAS. M. BARNARD, Room 4, No. 13 Exchange Street, Boston.

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At a subsequent meeting of the Committee, the following gentle-
men were appointed as a sub-committee of finance: Messrs. George
T. Bigelow, J. I. Bowditch, Abbott Lawrence, Theodore Lyman,

and S. B. Schlesinger. The name of Roger Wolcott was added as

secretary.
Soon after the organization of the several sub-committees, the

state legislature, on motion of Mr. L. V. Cushing, Jr., passed the.

following resolve appropriating conditionally fifty thousand dollars
to the Memorial Fund.

[Resolves of 1874, chap. 44.]
RESOLVE in favor of the Museum of Comparative Zodlogy,

Resolved, That whereas the proposed Agassiz Memorial Fund is to be
devoted to the completion of the Museum of Comparative Zodlogy as the
best possible recognition of the benefits conferred upon the State by the
labors of the great naturalist, as an educator of the whole community,
and to the end that said museum may, for all time, fulfil the aspirations
of its originator; therefore,—

Resolved, That when the said memorial fund shall amount to the sum

of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars subscribed and paid in from ~

private sources, that then there be allowed and paid from the treasury
to the trustees of the Museum of Comparative Zoology the sum of fifty
thousand dollars. [Approved May 11, 1874.

The following votes of the Agassiz Memorial Committee, and of
the corporation of Harvard College, and the annexed correspond-
ence, need no special explanation :—

Voted, That the subscription for the Agassiz Memorial Fund be
kept open till the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars
($250,000) be raised, in order ultimately to secure the fifty thousand
dollars voted conditionally by the legislative resolve of 1874.

OcToBER 26, 1874. ;

Voted (1), That the Finance Committee be directed:to pay over
and deliver to the President and Fellows of Harvard College, all
sums of money received by them, and all investments of money in
their hands, the proceeds of subscriptions to the Memorial Fund
prior to this date, except such sum as it may be necessary to reserve
to pay the current expenses ; the same to be paid by said committee,
and received by said President and Fellows, upon the condition that
the net income thereof be paid to the Faculty of the Museum of
Comparative Zodlogy, to be expended by them for the benefit of
the Museum.

Voted (2), That the treasurer of the fund be directed to pay, at
convenient times, any balance of interest in his hands to the Faculty

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of the Museum of Comparative Zodlogy, to be expended by them ©

for the benefit of the Museum.

Voted (3), That the money received for subscriptions to said
fund from teachers and pupils in the United States be paid over to
said President and Fellows; the same to be held by them in trust
as a separate and distinct fund, to be called the Teachers and Pupils’

Fund, and the income thereof applied to the payment of the
. expenses of the Museum of Comparative Zoology.
OcToBER 26, 1874.

At a meeting of the President and Fellows of Harvard College, in Bos-
ton, March 1, -1875, the President having laid before the Beart sundry
votes passed by the Agassiz Memorial Committee, whereby the treasurer
of said Committee was directed to pay over and deliver to the President
and Fellows certain money and investments in their hands, to be held in
trust, the income to be paid over to the Faculty of the Museum, to be
expended by them for the support of the Museum; and also to pay over
to said President and Fellows a certain other sum of money received by
said Committee from subscriptions by teachers and pupils in the United
States, to be held in trust as a separate and distinct fund, the interest to
be paid over to the Faculty of the Museum, to be by them applied to the
payment of the expenses of the Museum of Comparative Zoology ; it was
therefore,—

Voted, That the treasurer of the corporation is hereby authorized to
receive said money and property in behalf of the President and Fellows,
the same to be held by them in trust on the conditions in said votes
expressed, the income to be applied for the purposes above set forth.

Voted, That the President express to said Memorial Committee the
grateful acknowledgments of the President and Fellows for this disposi-
tion of the money and property in their hands for the use and benefit of
the Museum of Comparative Zoology.

Voted, That the principal fund above mentioned be called the Agassiz
Memorial Fund.

A true copy of votes from record. Attest: GEORGE PUTNAM, Secretary.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, March 2, 1875.
SEBASTIAN B. SCHLESINGER, Esq.

DEAR Sir :—I beg to express to all the members of the Agassiz Memo-
rial Committee the sincere and hearty acknowledgments of the President
and Fellows of Harvard College for the gift to them of the large fund
which has been procured through the exertions of the Committee, in
order that the memory of Prof. Louis Agassiz may be perpetuated by the
adequate and secure endowment of the Museum which he founded at
Harvard University. It will be a grateful duty for the President and
Fellows, in executing the trust which the Committee have laid upon them,
to commemorate the scientific attainments, enthusiasm, and devotion of
Prof. Agassiz, while they build up, and enlarge the Museum of Com-

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- for it. The continuous growth of the Museum is assured through the
successful labors of the Committee.

_ With the warmest pongrasnlaine and thanks, I am, dear sir, very
truly yours,

CHARLES W. Exot, President.

At a meeting of the Memorial Committee, held January 6, 1875,
the following letter was received :— |

Boston, Jan. 6, 1875.

Hon. Gzorce T. BIcELow, Chairman of the Agassiz Memorial Committee.

DEAR Sir:—I have the pleasure of announcing to you that Messrs,
Quincy A. Shaw and Alexander Agassiz have authorized me to offer the
sums respectively of $100,000 and $30,000, to complete the $250,000
necessary to obtain $50,000 from the State. These gifts are in addition
to their previous subscriptions, and are made on the following condition:
“ That the Memorial Fund shall be in charge of the Corporation of the
College, and that the Museum Building shall be enlarged in accordance
with the plans of Louis Agassiz and of A. Agassiz, which are now in the
hands of the Museum Faculty.

Very respectfully,
THEODORE LYMAN,
Agent for Quincy A. SHaw and ALEX. AGASSIZ.

Voted, That the munificent donations of Mr. Quincy A. Shaw of
the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, and of Mr. Alexander
Agassiz of the sum of thirty thousand, be gratefully accepted, on
the conditions annexed to said gifts, as stated in the letter of Theo-
dore Lyman, agent for the donors.

JANUARY 6, 1875.

Voted, That the Treasurer of the Committee is hereby authorized
to pay over and deliver, from time to time, to the President and
Fellows of Harvard College, all moneys and securities that may be
in his possession, the proceeds of the subscription raised by this
committee and accepted by said corporation.

Makrcu 13, 1875.

Voted, That hereafter, at such time or times as may be convenient,

‘all money in the hands of the Treasurer of the “* Agassiz Memorial

Fund,” together with such further sum as may hereafter be invested
by him for the use and benefit of said committee, be by him paid
over and delivered to the ‘‘ President and Fellows of Harvard Col-

lege,” to be by them received and held in trust for the uses and pur-

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poses following ; namely, to keep and invest the same according to
their best judgment and discretion, and collect and receive the
income thereon as the same shall acerue from time to time, and
apply said income as follows; to wit, first, such portion thereof as
the Faculty of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard
College shall direct, shall be accumulated and reinvested as an addi-
tional fund, so long as said Faculty shall direct; and the said fund,
thus accumulated, shall be kept till said Faculty shall direct the
same to be applied to the erection of an addition to the Museum
Building, substantially in accordance with the plan of Prof.
Agassiz, as left by him to his scientific executor; and thereupon,
so much of said income as said Faculty shall from time to time
direct, shall be applied and paid to said Faculty for the erection of
such addition to said Museum, on requisitions therefor to be made
by said Faculty and communicated to said President and Fellows ;
and secondly, the residue of said income shall be paid to said
Faculty from time to time on their requisition, to be applied and
expended for the benefit of said Museum.
DECEMBER 11, 1875.

Annexed is (1) a copy of the general subscription list, furnished
by the Treasurer, Mr. S. B. Schlesinger; (2) a copy of the report
submitted by Mr. James M. Barnard of the Teachers and Pupils’
Fund; and (3) a general recapitulation of the Agassiz Memorial
Fund, all posted to January 1, 1876.

(1) SuBscRIPTIONS TO AGASSIZ MEMORIAL FUND.

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Alexander Agassiz, . $25,000 00 | Col. R.S. Oliver, oe $100 00
Quincy A. Shaw, 25,000 00 | Otis Norcross, 1,000 00
Theodore Lyman, . 10,000 00;C.H., . 25 00
Nathaniel Thayer, 5,000 00 | W. R. Ellis, 50 00
Stephen Salisbury, 5,000 00 | Miss Marian i 50 00
John Amory Lowell, 3,000 00 | * * : : 5 00
James L., Little, 2,500 00/S., . ; ; : ; 1 00
Henry P. Kidder, . 1,500 00 | Edw. Wigglesworth, Jr., 100 00
William Amory, 1,000 00 | Mrs. John E. Lodge, ad-
J. Huntington Wolcott, 1,000 00 ditional, 1,000 00
Mrs. (ES S. and Miss Mrs. N. I. Bevan 1,000 00
Alice Hooper, 1,000 00 | Moses Kimball, 500 00
Thomas G. Appleton, 1,000 00 | George B. Loring, Presi-
Abbott Lawrence, . 1,000 00 dent N. E. Ag. Soc’y, 150 00
George Higginson, 1,000 00 | J. M. Forbes, 2,500 00
Mrs. John E. Lodge, 1,000 00 | John J. May, 100 00
George Baty Blake, 500 00 | William F. Cary, New
Mrs. Louisa Smith, Bos- York, . 200 00
ton Highlands, 2 00 | Abby W. May, 25 00

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Joseph T. Greenough,

D. Hutchins, .

Bangs & Horton, .

Martin Brimmer, .

Mrs. Brimmer,

R. W.,

Otto Dresel,

Henry Schlesinger, Lon-
don, England,

Dr. O. W. Holmes,

George Peabody, .

Miss Mary Wiggles-
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Arthur Lincoln,

North Middlesex Agri- |

cultural So., Lowell, .
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R. M. Mason,. 5
Roger Wolcott,
William T. Andrews,
R. W. Hooper,
George D. Howe, .
William E. Howe,.
Henry S. Snow,
Mrs. G. H. Shaw, .
J. M. Beebe, . ‘
Peter C. Brooks, .

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$300 00 | F. C. Lowell,. $500 00
25 00 | E. R. Mudge,. 500 00
10 00 | H. H. Hunnewell, . 500 00
1 00 | Cash (a friend), : 500 00
100 00 | Nantucket Ag. Society, 30 00
100 00 | Caspar Crowninshield, . 100 00
100 00} Junior Class Harvard
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1 00 bott Lawrence, Jr.,
1 00 Chairman Com., 208 25
1 00 | F. Gordon Dexter, 500 00 ©
2 00:1). Wi'G.,. ; : 25 00
5 00 | George Baty Blake, The 100 00
200 00 | Mrs. E. C. James, . 100 00
10 00 | L. Prang, 50 00 —
5 00 | J. C. Burrage, 25 00
10 00 | Mrs. G. R. Russell, 2,000 00 —
2 00 | Henry Cabot Lodge, 100 00
5 00 | Harvard Law School, 45 00
100 00 | Horatio J. Gilbert, 100 00
50 00 | J. H. Beal, 100 00
10 00 | E. W. Hooper, 100 00
1 00 | Robert C. Winthrop, 100 00
50 00 | J. L. Gardner, Jr.,. 100 00.
25 00 | William Munroe, . 100 00
1,000 00 | A Friend, 200 00
500 00 | Mrs. George aigietio: 200 00
25 00 | The Misses Ward, . 20 00
50 00 | J. B. Bright, . 100 00
Jarvis Lewis, t 00°:
100 00 | T. Wetherby, 1 00
100 00 | Josiah Beard, 1 00
500 00 | Alexander Starbuck, 1 00
Jos. F. Gibbs, 1 00
500 00 | Thomas H. Armstrong, . 1 00
5 00 | George Phinney, . 1 00
J. I. Prince, . : 4 1 00
50 00 | James C. Parsons, . 1 00
55 00 | B. T. D. Adams, 1 00
1,000 00 | ‘In Memoriam,” . 10 00
100 00 | Miss Georgina Lowell, . 50 00
500 00 | J. H. Center,. 20 00
300 00 | Miss Anna C. Lowell, 100 00
300 00 | J. B. Bright, . 9 30
800 00 | R. P. Whitfield, 20 00
100 00 | W. S. Bigelow, 100 00
5,000 00 | Miss S. P. Banks, . ; 50
1,000 00 | Miss E. M. Wellington,. 50
1,000 00 | Henry A. Ward, 25 00

Lewis Cabot, . «$400 00 | Swiss Soc’'y in Boston,. $284 00 Asa
Th M.Smith,Jr, —. 1 00 | Swiss Society in Phila- :
Harlem Collegiate In- delphia, . at ie 33 50 |
stitute, ; 2 00 | Swiss Society in Cleve-
Charles H. Williams, for land,O., . : 25 00
Medical Students, . 12 00 | Swiss So. in Denver, Col., 20 00
S. Carter, 2d, . : 5 00 | Swiss So. in Evansville, fade 8 10
Boston Daily Advertiser, 110 00 | Swiss Consulate, N. Y., 5 00
mars. S. V. RK. Thayer, : 200 00 | Welch & Bigelow, Cam-
Hon. Samuel Hooper, ._ 1,000 00 bridge, ; : , 270 10
Hingham Agr. Society, 30 00 | Henry P. Curtis, . : 20 00
Essex Agricult. Society, 50 00 | Public Schools of Whit-
Albert Fearing, . 35 00 | insville, Mass... . 5 00
Worcester Co. East res | Calumet, Mich., through
Society, Milford, : 25 00; Chas. Briggs, Treas.,
Martha’s Vineyard, : 50 00 subscription of 1,233
So ae i 10000| persons, . . . 1215 30
Swiss Society in Wash- ==
ington, : : ; 34 00 Total, 4“: . ”* $115,600 25

SEBASTIAN B. SCHLESINGER, Treasurer.

(2) THe AGaAssiz MEMORIAL.
Teachers and Pupils’ Fund.

13 EXcHANGE STREET, Boston, Dec. 12, 1874.

We have already had the pleasure of reporting, in the public news-
papers, the contribution of $741.63 from 455 teachers and 12,018 pupils
of the public schools of Baltimore.

The school committees of Philadelphia, New York, Brooklyn, and Bos-
ton believed it to be inexpedient to suspend, in our favor, the law forbid-
ding contributions to be taken up in the schools. Contributions, however,
have been received from those cities, excepting Philadelphia. In New
York, the president of Columbia College, and Madame Charlier’s Insti-
tute, gave $12961. In Brooklyn, the Packer Institute, and Public School
No. 1, gave $190. In Boston proper, twenty-one friends, some thirty
teachers, and a few pupils, gave $990.15 In the Charlestown district, one
hundred and fifteen teachers gave $135, through the late superintendent,
the Rev. B F. Tweed. In the Western States many cities and towns gave
freely: Chicago, $1,003.40; St. Louis, $765.53. The number of contribu-
tors in these cities was not reported, but it may, we believe, be estimated
at ten thousand in each. Below is a table showing the amounts received
from all quarters. As reports of the number of contributors were not
received from all of the schools, the numbers given in this table are
hypothetical, but they are believed to be substantially correct. Useful
as the amount received will be in building up the Memorial, we have
reason to believe, from the letters received at this office, that the indirect
effects have been of equal value; that it has been a very important event
in the education of the country. It has given to the teachers throughout

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ce appreciation of those great ideas of which he was an exponent. It has

led to meetings where Agassiz’s methods of teaching have been explained

and discussed. To the established associations for the study of Nature

it has given a new impulse, and it has caused the formation of new ones,

particularly among the young. Teachers everywhere have found in this

plan to honor an eminent man, who claimed above all else that he, too,
was a teacher, a new motive to faithful service. In confirmation of this
opinion we quote from a letter lately received from Hon. Newton Bate-
man, the well-known superintendent of education of Illinois: “I am
sure that the indirect results of the movement have been exceedingly

valuable,—results that would have been cheaply secured by the expendi-

ture of: many times the amount of time, money, and labor that the whole
enterprise has cost.”
It is proposed to keep the fund open permanently for contributions.

A table showing the Amounts Contributed and the Number of Contributors
to the “* Teachers and Pupils’ Fund” of the Agassiz Memorial from alt
sources, to date.

Sees.) | amount. sragces: [Tee ) lame
tors. tors.
Mame;..> . 743 $83 90 || Indiana, ‘ 214 $33 35
N. Hampshire, 526 64 00 || Michigan, . E755 172 04
Vermont, 163 18 76 | Illinois, . -| 30,380 | 1,982 54
Massachusetts,| 10,941 | 2,555 07 Wisconsin, : 2,376 226 04
Rhode Island, . 459 140 05 || Minnesota, . 1,166 114 67
Connecticut, . 227 54 36 || Iowa, . : 919 TED
New York, .| 6,590} 1,106 97 || Missouri, -| 10,975 | 882 79
New Jersey, : 650 216 99 || Kansas, . : 315 45 00
Pennsylvania, . 500 108 81 || Nebraska, . 59 |: Int
Maryland, .| 12,600 815 33 || Colorado, . 390 66 25
Delaware, 4 25 19 00 || Nevada, . . 290 60 00
Dist. of Columbia, . 2 25 00 || California, . - 47 50
Virginia,. . 30 5 00 || Texas, : 1 2 00
West Virginia, 195 25 45 || England, : g 34 16
N. Carolina, . 2 2 00 || Unknown, - 27 31
S. Carolina, . - 1 25 ————___—_|—_______
Ono, . .| 4,200 174 25 Total, . .| 86,696 | $9,192 74

*

Total number of contributors (estimated), 86,696.
Total of contributions, $9,192.74.

For the Committee,

JAMES M, BARNARD, Treasurer.

(3) RECAPITULATION OF THE AGASSIZ MEMORIAL FUND. _

_ General subscription, Mee aye d < bite oe Blt 600 725
3 Teachers and Pupils’ Fund, ae : : 9,192 74, ih
_ Subscriptions of Messrs. Q.A.Shaw and Alex- While «
ander Agassiz, . . . . ~~ « 180,000 00 a ae ne

Interest paid to Faculty of Museum of Comparative Zodlogy
Pat sundry times,—

November, 1874, $1,072 70 e

January, 1875,* vas hme eer gene OOD one :
LM ait ots) ek Scat 438 00 aa

July, 1875; le2 hoki tedde fl ea aes One

Interest on Teachers’Fund, . . 18000 -* aie

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ae CHARLES W. ELIOT, President. 4 <
aa ALEXANDER AGASSIZ, Curator. JOHN B. 8. JACKSON. aaa
JOSIAH D. WHITNEY, Secretary. THEODORE LYMAN. ue
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; iv HERMANN A. HAGEN, . ._ . Professor of Entomology. a
aN NATHANIEL S. SHALER, . 3 - Professor of Paleontology. ;
> JOHN McCRADY,. . . ._ . Professor of Zovlogy. , | mE
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THEODORE LYMAN, . . ._ . Assistant in Zoology. “

JOHN GOULD ANTHONY,. .. .. Assistant in Conchology.. te:

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JOEL ASAPH ALLEN,. . ._ . Assistant in Ornithology. 3

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WILLIAM JAMES,. . . . . Assistant in Physiology and Comp. Anat.
WALTER FAXON,.. . . ._ . Assistant in Zoological Laboratory. :
_ RICHARD BLISS, Jr. . . «. « Incharge of Ichthyological Department.
SW. GARMAN, . . . . « Incharge of Reptiles. , r.
J. H. BLAKE, . : J F - Incharge of Alcoholic Mollusca. Pi,
TeuUSvs ROERTTER, . . . .« Artist.

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TRUSTEES OF THE MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY,
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THE GOVERNOR OF THE COMMONWEALTH,
ALEXANDER H. RICE.

THE LIFUTENANT-GOVERNOR,
HORATIO G. KNIGHT.

THE PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE,
GEORGE B. LORING.

THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE,
JOHN D. LONG.

THE SECRETARY OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION,
JOSEPH WHITE.

Tue CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME JUDICIAL Court,
HORACE GRAY.

THEODORE LYMAN. ALEXANDER AGASSIZ.

NATHANIEL THAYER. L. F. POURTALES.

MARTIN BRIMMER. ROBERT W. HOOPER.

QUINCY A. SHAW. ABBOTT LAWRENCE,
WILLIAM GRAY, JR.

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PLATE I. View of the wing, now partly built, together with its proposed
addition and the corner-piece joining it to the main building. In the sketch
here given, the main building is seen extending to the southern limit of the
central segment. The view is taken facing the north-west corner of the
Museum.

PLATE II. Shows the general ground-plan of the whole building; the
darkly shaded portion is completed ; the dotted part forms the proposed addi-
tion. Adjoining the general plan is a cross-section of the building on the
line A B.

The basement will contain, as at present, rooms mainly devoted to the
storage of alcoholic specimens and the work-rooms for the more bulky alco-
holic collections.* It contains, also, a room for plaster-casts and general work,
—three rooms for the use of the anatomical and physiological departments,
the boiler-room, coal-bin, and proper accommodations for aquaria, both
marine and fresh-water, as well as suitable quarters for live-stock. ;

PuLaTE III. Shows the plan of the first story and first story gallery, the
latter, except in two cases, the synthetic and lecture rooms opening into the
rooms below, having for the sake of greater economy of space been floored
over so as to gain very conveniently situated work-rooms for the entomo-
logical, the geological, and paleontological departments, as well as central
rooms for a general library and a Curator’s room.

The first story immediately under the gallery floor contains exhibition-
rooms and work-rooms for the geological and paleontological department, so
as to retain the heavy material near the bottom of the building. The syn-
thetic room, giving a general synopsis of the arrangement of the Museum, is
placed on this floor opposite the main entrance of the wing.

In the corner-piece we find, in addition to the hall and lecture-room, four
smaller rooms for the use of advanced students and professors.

PLATE IV. Shows the disposition of the main floor of exhibition rooms,
partly for systematic and partly for faunal collections. These rooms, all
having a gallery, oceupy the whole of the second story. The central space
of the large hall in the corner-piece is destined to receive casts or originals
of the larger fossil vertebrates.

The attic story has no gallery; it contains in the wing three exhibition
rooms for the anatomical and physiological departments, and six work-rooms
for the general use of the assistants of the Museum, to be distributed accord-
ing to our needs. The corner-piece is entirely devoted to rooms destined for
the teaching done in the different branches of natural history at the Museum.

Owing to the facility with which any section of the proposed building can
be added without interfering with the existing conditions of things, addi-
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branch thereof, as rapidly as it outgrows the quarters assigned to it.

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