One hundred and forty-six are taking Natural History 4. The members of the course will purchase James D. Dana's Manuel of Geology; the third edition (1880) is preferred.

More students have elected Philosophy I. than the lecture room furnishes accommodations for. Students who take the course as an extra, or have no strong reason for taking it, have been asked to take another course.

Mr. Snow, instructor of History 12, has prepared an outline text-book for the members of the course. It is to be issued in two parts, the first one of which will appear next week. Besides the subject matter proper, the first part will contain a map, and numerous valuable appendices. The price of the first part will be $1.75 and of the second 75 cents.

An interesting book to all Cambridge people, of carefully compiled statistics and important facts, has just been published by Moses King. It is called "The Cambridge High School History and Catalogue," and is compiled by Wm. F. Bradbury, A. M., head master of the school, with an accurate early history of the school by the former headmaster, Elbridge Smith, A. M. The book is now ready and can be obtained at the store of the publisher.

The following are the numbers of the thirty-three freshmen passed, out of fifty-three who tried the September examinations: 219, 220, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228, 230, 231, 232, 235, 236, 239, 240, 241, 244, 245, 246, 247, 248, 249, 250, 483, 484, 485, 489, 493, 494, 495, 497, 498, 499, 500. This makes the total class passed 278 in number, or larger by 29 than any other class ever admitted to Harvard College. The number of dropped men from '85 will raise the sum total of the class to 284.