The director of the University Museum, in his annual report to the President, records a very valuable gift of insects and fossil insects presented by Mr. S. H. Scudder '62; a gift of a collection of reptiles and Bermudan fishes from T. Barbour '06, and the presentation by H. B. Bigelow 2G., of the collection of over 8,000 North American and West Indian birds, which have been loaned to the Museum for the last three years. A gift of a different character is an early oil portrait of Professor Louis Agassiz h.'48, presented by Captain C. H. Davis, U. S. N.

The library has received during the year 9,147 volumes, pamphlets and maps, bringing the total number of brooks up to nearly 70,000.

This past year, for the first time, the Museum has employed a uniformed attendant on duty all day in the exhibition rooms. His presence has prevented such petty acts of Vandalism as have been committed now and then in years past.

The report contains, as usual, detailed accounts of the work in all the departments of the Museum.