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 1878-79 Many improvements have been made in the arrangement of the Exhibition Rooms. The galleries of the North American Faunal room, and the gallery containing the Systematic Collee tion of Crustacea, have been opened to the public. The room containing the Systematic Collection of Fishes and Selachians, having been provisionally arranged by Mr. German, is now acces sible to the public. Excellent progress has been made in the completion of the new cases in the room devoted to the System atic Collection of Mollusca, and a large part of the collections intended for exhibition have already been selected by Mr. Hamlin. Much has also been done by Mr. Allen in the selection of material for the Birds and Mammals of the Faunal collections still remain ing incomplete. 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.