Report of the Annex.

The reports of the treasurer and secretary of the Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women, presented at the annual meeting October 27, 1890, have been published. The report of the treasurer, Miss Longfellow, is short, and shows receipts of $21,609.63 with expenses to balance.

The report of Secretary Arthur Gilman, opens with a summary of the the work done during the past year, which has been the most successful in the history of te organization, the last graduating class having included twelve young women. The advanced word done by students in Zoology, American History, Astronomy and Botany is recorded. The establishment by Miss Sarah B. Fay, of the first endowed scholarship is also mentioned.

Considerable space is devoted to a description of the enlargement and adornment of Fay House. Improvements to the value of $30,000 have been made, though as yet but $11.825 have been collected. The improvements consist of raising the building one story, adding an addition in the rear, altering the entrance to the house, and making various modifications in the lecture rooms and library.

The number of students in the four undergraduate courses increases slowly year by year, the total number being now one hundred and sixty five.

Details are also added concerning the social features at the Annex.

A table follows giving a complete list of the classes of the year with the names of the Harvard Instructors who have taught them, the subjects they have treated and the number of students in each class.

Finally the students are classified according to their states and preparatory schools. Massachusetts leads the way with 114 students, New York and New Hampshire 4 each, Maine 3, California, Connecticut, Lilinots, Rhode Island 2, and Georgla, Hawaitan Islands, Indiana, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, Ohio, South Carolina and Vermont one apiece. Among the preparatory schools the Cambridge Latin is at the head with 12 students. The Boston Latin supplied 8 and sixty-six other institutions sent students in different numbers down to one.