At the Medical School the most important event has been the completion of the laboratories of pathology and bacteriology. They were ready just when the Koch excitement arose. But the laboratories are not endowed, there is no professorship of bacteriology and the School needs money.

The Dental School has undergone a few changes in Faculty and in requirements for admission and study.

The Bussey Institution has lived within its income and has been of material help to Professor Goodale in supplying flowers for the classes in Cambridge. The investments of the Bussey Trust in Boston real estate have gone down from $17,155 in 1874 to $8,873.

The Veterinary School and Hospital have enjoyed their most prosperous year. They need new instructors, and, from the University point of view, it is desirable that the school should be a place of research as well as of instruction. For this an endowment of $100,000 is needed.

The Library wants more money and a new library is, excepting the endowment of permanent professorships, the most urgent need of the University.

The Herbarium has been particularly fortunate in receiving money and gifts. The Botanical Gardens have been actively used and the Museum of Economic Botany is being prepared for the public. At the Arnold Aboretum, but little progress has been made during the year owing to retarding circumstances.

The Chemical and Physical Laboratories are active. An effort was made by Mr. Francis Blake to secure a fund of $100,000 to endow research in the Physical Laboratory. The disturbance of commercial credit in the autumn of 1890 arrested it.

At the Observatory the danger of destruction by fire still exists. Books, manuscripts and 27,000 photographic plates, are in jeopardy.

The University museum now has accommodations for botanical and mineralogical work for many years to come. The Zoological Museum is, however, crippled for lack of money.

The Peabody Museum has passed through the period of isolation which it has had to undergo as a product of private endowment through the beneficence of Mrs. Thaw. The Semitic Museum contains an interesting nucleus for a valuable collection. Five thousand dollars have been spent on books, manuscripts, inscriptions, photographs, casts, coins, electrotypes, impressions of seals and tablets, etc.

The report concludes with a few details concerning the summer courses, the quinquennial catalogue, the suffrage for Overseers, etc.