Excerpt from Annual Report of the Curator of the Museum of Comparative Zooelogy at Harvard College, to the President and Fellows of Harvard College, for 1877-78 The Trustees of the Museum having, in accordance with the Acts of the Legislature (referred to in their last Report for transferred the property under their charge to the Presi dent and Fellows of Harvard College, the Legislature in J anu ary, 1877, passed an Act dissolving the Board of Trustees of the Museum (see Appendix A.) this is therefore the first Report I have the pleasure of presenting to the President and Fellows of Harvard College. The last Report submitted to the Trustees extended to the close of the year 1876. The present Report not only covers the year 1877, but the latter part of the academic year (1877 to September 1. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.