year fifteen students are taking advantage of this opportunity to learn how to teach. The towns at present participating in this arrangement are Newton, Medford, Brookline, and Everett. All the courses in Education and Teaching, except the course in methods, show a satisfactory increase in membership. The total number enrolled this year, not counting those students who are taking one or more of the courses as extras," is 126. Of these students 65 are graduates. The distribution in the several courses is as follows: Educational Theory, 41; History of Education, 34; Organization, Management, and Teaching, 26; Methods of Teaching, 8; Pedagogical Seminary (Contemporary Problems in Education), 18. As usual, the Seminary comprises a number of high school principals (2), superintendents (3), and high school teachers of this vicinity (3). Of the other Seminary students two are holders of scholarships. All the members of the Seminary except one are graduates. Paul H. Hanus.

THE FOGG ART MUSEUM.

During the year ending Sept. 1, 1806 new photographs were received, making the total number in the collection 26,063. Among these latest additions are: A complete set of illustrations of the Sidon sarcophagi, now in the Imperial Museum at Constantinople; a large number of photographs representing mediaeval English architectural subjects, and a set of reproductions from the original drawings of Turner's Liber Studiorum. During the summer The John Witt Randall collection of engravings, which was bequeathed to Harvard College in 1892, was transferred from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts to this Museum. This, together with the Gray collection, which was returned to us last year, forms a very valuable collection of prints illustrating the history of engraving from the earliest times. Connected with this collection of prints is a working library of upwards of 400 volumes. The prints, as well as the photographs, are always accessible to members of the University, and other persons, on application to the Director or his assistants. - At the present time we have displayed in the exhibition cases of the print room a complete set of the published plates of Turner's Liber Studiorum belonging to the Gray collection, together with a number of the etchings before mezzotint, and one original lead-pencil drawing, loaned by Professor Norton; and a selection from the photographs of the drawings mentioned above. This exhibition affords a rare opportunity for the study of this important work. The Museum has lately received, by gift from Mr. Edward Robinson, '79, of Boston, a reduced copy in plaster of the marble statue of the Discobolus after Myron in the Lanceollotti Palace in Rome. In this statue the head is in a different

position from that of the statue in the Vatican, of which we have a cast of full size. A collection of about 50 pieces of ancient glass, comprising an unusual variety of forms, has been lately deposited in the Museum, in the hope that some friend of the University may give us the means to acquire them. The collection is a very beautiful one, and is sufficient in extent for our purposes. The price asked for it is $600. The Fogg Museum has as yet almost no original works of great importance except those of the print collections. It is very desirable that we should acquire a limited number of select examples of such works.

GERMAN.

Charles H. Moore, h '90.

The Department was crippled early in the year by the sudden and severe illness of Professor Schilling, who was obliged to give up all of his work for the time being. By consolidation of sections, and the transfer of several instructors from one course to another, the Department was able, however, to keep Professor Schilling's classes going, and accordingly to provide instruction in all courses announced for the first term. Happily, Professor Schilling hopes to resume all or the greater part of his work for the second term. In place of Mr. W. E. Walz, the Department has had in German A the services of Mr. T. C. Howe, professor of German in Butler College, Indiana, on leave of absence. Dr. J. A. Walz holds again a traveling fellowship, and is studying in Berlin. - Professor Francke delivered in the fall a course of illustrated lectures on German Religious Painting, from the Van Eycks to Holbein, which, in spite of inclement weather, attracted large audiences; and in January he gave a similar course at the Johns Hopkins University. Partly, perhaps, because of the bracketing for this year of Dr. Poll's course 2, Professor Bartlett's course 2a distinguished from courses 2, 3, and 4 by being conducted in English, and by paying relatively greater attention to grammar, composition, and translation has grown to such proportions in its second year that it has had to be divided, Dr. Bierwirth taking the work in grammar and composition. - Dr. Schofield offers this year for the first time a course in Modern Danish and Norwegian Literature. The programme for the year includes also (though at present in brackets) a new course by Professor Francke, entitled Introduction to the History of German Literature, a course consisting of lectures in English, and requiring no knowledge of German. Its purpose is twofold: to provide for students interested in literature, but not proficient in German, a consistent account of the great movements in German literature, illustrated by the reading of representative works in translation; and to afford students of German, whose work has been primarily

linguistic, who have no time for detailed study of German literature, or have been occupied with particular epochs, a broad outlook over the whole field. The results of this innovation will be watched with interest. Professor von Jagemann has expanded his half-course in Gothic to a full course, gaining time thereby for a considerable development of the Introduction to Germanic Philology, which he has always included in the Gothic course. Dr. Poll's Middle Low German is bracketed this year, but he offers the Tiersage in the Seminary.

William Guild Howard, '91.

THE GRAY HERBARIUM.

After considerable negotiation, the Gray Herbarium has just secured, by purchase, the large and valuable collection of Compositae left by the late Dr. F. W. Klatt, of Hamburg, Germany, a well-known specialist in this order of plants. This is by far the most important accession obtained since the receipt, some eight years ago, of the herbarium of the English traveler and botanist, John Ball. The two large collections just mentioned are very different in kind. The Ball Herbarium comprised all orders of vascular plants, but was chiefly made up of specimens from Europe, Northern Africa, and Western Asia, while the Klatt collection, which is remarkably rich in tropical types, contains only Composite, that is, plants of the large order to which the aster, sunflower, thistle, and dandelion belong. The collection comprises about 11,000 sheets of specimens, and very numerous excellently prepared drawings, tracings, and critical manuscript notes.

When any large herbarium is incorporated with another, it is usually the case that a considerable part of its specimens have to be rejected, since they are mere duplicates of plants already well represented. While such duplicates are useful in future exchanges, the real value of the acquisition is largely determined by the percentage of plants which are new to the acquiring herbarium. Judged in this way, the importance of the Klatt collection is exceptionally great, since it brings to the Gray Herbarium more than 60 genera and no less than 1500 species and varieties of plants not hitherto represented at Harvard, nor, for the most part, in America at all. These are largely tropical plants, secured by European explorers.— For many years a great part of the research work done at the Gray Herbarium has been devoted to the study of the rich and varied vegetation of tropical and sub-tropical America, especially Mexico. As Dr. Klatt was also a diligent worker in the same field of investigation, his critically identified specimens will be of great assistance in future work of this sort at Harvard. The Gray Herbarium, after its careful development and longcontinued scientific usefulness, is now passing through a financial crisis.

The income being insufficient to meet the regular expenses, its staff, already too small, will have to be seriously reduced, and much of the research work and publication stopped, unless a considerable addition to its permanent funds or liberal gifts for present use, can be quickly secured. Desiring to stimulate the needful gifts, a liberal patron has offered $20,000 as endowment for a memorial professorship, to be known as the Asa Gray Professorship of Systematic Botany (a chair to be united with the position of Curator of the Herbarium), on condition that another sum of not less than $30,000, to be known as the Asa Gray Memorial Fund, be secured on or before Commencement Day, 1899, the income of which shall be devoted to the salaries of assistants and other expenses of the Herbarium. Several friends of the University have responded to this call and have subscribed with promptness and cordiality; nevertheless, there is still a considerable sum to be raised before this much-needed addition of $50,000 to the present inadequate endowment of the Herbarium can be secured. The liberal support which establishments similar to the Gray Herbarium are receiving elsewhere in the United States should certainly stimulate the alumni of Harvard, many of whom have enjoyed the rare advantages of Dr. Gray's instruction, to contribute to the perpetuation of his name and the continuation of the work which he so nobly began. B. L. Robinson, '87.

THE LIBRARY.

Several interesting gifts have recently been received. Mr. Leo Wiener, Instructor in Slavic Languages, returned from his summer travels with a remarkable collection of Judaeo-German books, the result of a diligent search through the cities of Russia and northern Germany, and including many rare and precious pamphlets presented to him by A. J. Harkavy, of the Imperial Library in St. Petersburg. The language of these books, a German dialect formed under Slavic and Semitic influences and printed in the Hebrew character, is of interest to the philologist, and the subject-matter is of value to the student of popular literature and to the historian of the Jews. The whole collection (300 volumes and about 1100 pamphlets) Mr. Wiener has presented to the College Library. At the same time, information was received of another collection of books in the same dialect but printed in America, in the hands of a dealer in New Jersey. Through the generosity of Prof. Morris Loeb, '83, of New York, and of his brother James Loeb, '88, the books have been bought (some 125 volumes and 562 pamphlets) and added to Mr. Wiener's collection. -O. B. Henshaw, '93, a careful student of philosophy and lately secretary of the Cosmopolitan University, died July 4, 1898, in Camp Alger, where he was serving as a private in the Brooklyn

Invincibles (Troop C, New York National Guard). By his direction, all his philosophical books (about 150 volumes) have been given to the College Library. The larger part of them will be placed in the Library of the Philosophical Department. The rest form a welcome addition to the shelves in Gore Hall.-H. C. Warren, '79, who has just died, had been for long a generous giver to the Library and to the Sanskrit Department. His last gift was a copy (one of the 25 copies of the sumptuous Kyoto edition) of the beautifully illustrated work in ten volumes, "Japan Described by the Japanese." A part of Mr. Warren's Sanskrit books, under the provisions of his will, will also come to the Library. At the request of Professor Hanus, the Library has sent circulars to a large number of school boards throughout the country asking for recent reports, manuals, courses of study, and other printed matter, and publications of this kind are now daily being received in response to our request. During the Christmas recess, substantial improvement was made in the lighting of the history reading-room in Harvard Hall, and the room is now kept open through the evening, and will so continue at least until the end of the mid-year examinations.

William Coolidge Lane, '81.

MEDICAL SCHOOL.

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The David Williams Cheever Scholarship for 1898-99 has been awarded to G. T. Little. The Lewis and Harriet Hayden Scholarship has been equally divided between E. J. Davis and J. W. Thomas.—The Bacteriological Department received a bequest of $10,000 from the estate of Edward Austin. - Prof. C. S. Minot is making a complete series of embryological sections. His plan is simple and unique: by cutting sections in three planes, Frontal, Sagittal, and Transverse, and making sections at different periods of development, he is able to demonstrate the development of every organ of each vertebrate (he is doing the work with 16 different vertebrates). He is also making a collection of sections to demonstrate the normal histological structure of every organ in man and in some of the domestic animals. These collections will be of great value, especially as aids in original research. At present, however, there is little opportunity for original work, as the laboratories are so crowded. Two noteworthy papers have recently appeared: one by Professor Bowditch and the other by Associate Professor Porter. The former emphasizes the necessity of an extension of the elective system, and the latter urges an increase of work in the laboratory, and makes "the lectures merely explanatory of the experiments." W. H. Prescott, m '88.