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Many interesting statistics are appended to Mr. Winsor's report. The number of accessions to the central and to the various departmental libraries during the year was 16,051, as against 12,253 for 1889, 16,468 for 1888, and 11,924 for 1887. The total number of volumes now in the library is 371,255; the total number of pamphlets, 300,863. The number of books used last year was 92,109, as against 84,191 for 1889, 80,906 for 1888, and 74,902 for 1887. The use of cards admitting the holders to the stack has been...
...department and the relations with the large Faculty are at the same time promoted. This development of departmental authority and activity gives assurance that the organization of separate degree-giving schools of particular arts or sciences, as in vogue at other colleges, will not be needed at Harvard. The central Faculty, freed by its subordinate boards from the charge of administrative details, will be able to treat wisely and efficiently, with the help of its departmental and other standing committees, the fundamental questions of admission, residence, instruction, aids and honors, examinations and degrees, in the best interests of the body...
...rather interesting fact has come to light, explaining how Mrs. Elizabeth Fogg was led to leave her recent bequest of $220,000 to Harvard College. It seems that it had been her intention to build an observatory in Central Park, New York City, in honor of her late husband. The memorial was to be magnificently built and equipped. In talking over her project with Professor Josiah P. Cooke, head of the chemistry department, Mrs. Fogg learned that she would be unable to build, with the money she had for the purpose, an observatory as thoroughly and finely equipped...
...masks from the Pacific islands, specimens of Peruvian pottery, various copper instruments found by a sailor in Mexico, some of the forms of which have never before been found. The copper instruments will give some clew, till now undiscovered, to the particular way that the ancients of Mexico and Central America cut stone...
Probably few men in college know of the great amount of work that is going on at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. The collections in the museum are very valuable, and a great deal of original investigation is being carried on in Mexico and Central America under the charge of Professor F. W. Putnam, the curator of the museum. These investigations are proving very successful and the results obtained will be of the utmost value for ethnological study...