The Zoological Museum.

The annual reports of Dr. W. McM. Woodworth, keeper of the Zoological Museum and of the assistants and instructors in charge of its various departments have recently been published. They show that while the past year has, on the whole, been rather uneventful for the museum, yet there have been several important additions to the different collections, all of which are in excellent condition.

The principal addition is Mr. Agassiz's gift of the Davis and McConathy collection of palaeozoic corals. The Davis collection contains more than eight thousand lots and includes many remarkably fine specimens. The chief addition to the exhibition collections is a series of Japanese siliceous sponges for the Pacific room. The installation of the Bangs collection of mammals, containing about 10,000 specimens, chiefly from North America, is now complete, and the old museum collection has been incorporated with it in a separate room. The collection includes a large and valuable series of South American mammals which have been received from Messrs. Bangs. The most important additions to the department of ornithology are the collections from the Hawaiian and Liu Kiu Islands containing a number of new specimens.

Mr. Henshaw, Librarian of the Museum, reports that the accessions to the library are greater than those reported for previous years. By a vote of the Council of the University Library more than five hundred geological volumes and pamphlets, were transferred from Gone Half library to the Museum. Dr. Woodworth expresses the hope that this policy of segregation will be continued, believing that it will make the Museum library the most nearly complete of its kind and one of the strongest departments of the University.

Mr. Walter Hunnewell has given the Museum $5,000 in memory of his son Willard Peele Hunnewell '04 and the Faculty has voted to use the income from this fund for the purchase of books on entomology.