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The Announcement of the Summer Session is published during March or April of each year, and is sent free, upon request, by the Recorder of the Faculties.

APPOINTMENT REGISTRY.

In January, 1898, the Regents of the University established, in the office of the President, a Registry for alumni and students who desire the coöperation of the University in securing employment. The aim is to obtain complete information in regard to all University candidates for the teaching profession, and for other callings, so that in answering inquiries from appointing authorities the President may be enabled to recommend the best person available for each position referred to him. A secretary is in charge of the lists of candidates, which include the names of many who have already won success in their professions, or in the business world. It is the duty of the secretary to secure evidence in regard to the scholarship, experience, adaptability, and personal fitness of each candidate. The reports of members of the Faculty are kept on file in the President's office, together with reports of school principals and superintendents, and the University examiners in the case of teachers, and of employers in the case of other candidates. The President reserves the right of refusing to extend the coöperation of the University to students when they apply for positions for which they are manifestly unfit.

The practice of giving written recommendations to students, to be used at their own discretion, has been discontinued. Recommendations given as a result of personal solicitation have little weight with appointing authorities. Confidential reports have superseded merely formal statements of the amount of work the student has to his credit and his standing with his instructors. This information may still be mailed to school officers, or to professional or business men, at their request, or at the request of the student concerned. But official nominations, based upon thorough acquaintance with the position to be filled, and comparison of the qualifications of all of the available candidates, are made only in response to requests from the appointing authorities. Letters requesting official nominations should be explicit; they should state the subjects to be taught, or the work to be done, the salary paid per year, and the time when the engagement is to begin. A prompt answer to such letters will be sent throughout the summer vacation as well as during the University year. The secretary will consult any member of the Faculty whose advice is especially desired. There are no fees for these services.

Communications should be addressed to the Appointment Secretary, University of California, Berkeley.

LIBRARY, MUSEUMS, AND LABORATORIES.

LIBRARY.

The General Library, kept in the Bacon Art and Library Building, now contains over ninety-five thousand volumes, and has been arranged with a view to making it especially valuable as a reference library. It receives a large number of periodical publications, literary, scientific, and general; and is furnished with author and subject catalogues and full indexes. It is constantly augmented by donations and exchange, and by purchases of books with the income from the Michael Reese, James K. Moffitt, Jane K. Sather, E. A. Denicke, and other funds.

The Library and Reading-Room of the Department of Agriculture receives the publications of the Experiment Stations of the United States and other countries, as well as pamphlets on agricultural subjects published by various Governments and Commissions. Through the courtesy of editors and publishers, a large number of dailies, weeklies, and monthlies, numbering about one hundred and forty, are regularly received and placed on file for the use of students. The list is published annually in the report of the Experiment Station.

ART COLLECTIONS.

Fine Arts. The Gallery of Fine Arts, in the Bacon Art and Library Building, contains three pieces of sculpture and seventy-five paintings, illustrative of the various periods and schools of art. All of these have been received as gifts from Henry D. Bacon, Mrs. Mark Hopkins, F. L. A. Pioche, Charles Mayne, R. D. Yelland, and others. They form a very interesting collection, which it is hoped will become, by the generosity of other citizens of the commonwealth, still more representative.

In the Library rooms below are numerous portraits, etchings, and bronzes, and to the student the library offers the use of a large number of books on aesthetics and the history of fine arts, as well as such collections of reproductions as the Louvre Gallery, Blane's Peintres, Galérie des Peintres, Mantz, Krell, etc.

The fourteen hundred photographs of ancient and modern masterpieces of sculpture presented by John S. Hittell, may be freely used in connection with the study of plastic art.

Collections of modern paintings are on exhibition at the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art in San Francisco, regularly during the spring and autumn months, and occasionally at other times.

Classical Archaeology. The University has a cabinet of about sixteen hundred coins and medals, including over four hundred ancient coins, mostly Roman. There are also sets of wall maps of ancient countries, the gift of Charles Webb Howard, and many photographs, other pictures, and about sixteen hundred lantern-slides, illustrating the topography, monuments, art, and life of ancient Greece and Rome.

MUSEUMS.

The several collections composing the University Museum have, by action of the Regents, been more closely coördinated with the departments of instruction to which they pertain than was formerly the case. Owing to the extremely crowded condition of the University buildings, it is possible at present to place on public exhibition only a very small portion of the collections, comprising mainly the ethnological collection in the upper corridor of South Hall, and the mounted mammals and birds, in East Hall.

The materials have been obtained from many sources, chief among which are the following: (1) The State Geological Survey, which contributed not only its extensive collection of minerals, of fossils, and of marine and land shells, but especially that series of skins of California birds which were the type-specimens of the species described in its report on ornithology. This nucleus of the Museum was subsequently enlarged by a set of Wardian casts made up of selected types of the larger fossils. (2) The Pioche collection of shells, fossils, minerals, and ores illustrative of Pacific Coast forms, though principally from South America. (3) The collection of D. O. Mills, containing a large series of California land shells, and of native ores and rocks. (4) The collection of James R. Keene-a costly group of minerals. (5) The various expeditions of the Zoological Department. (6) The ethnological and natural history collections made by the Alaska Commercial Company in Alaska. (7) The series of type vertebrate skeletons purchased for the Zoological Department by Mrs. Phoebe A. Hearst. (8) Four large collections of vertebrate fossils brought to the Museum by expeditions sent out by friends of the University. Recent additions have been numerous and valuable. Type specimens of new species are placed in the Museum, as are also specimens of various species, genera, etc., illustrating interesting cases of variation, geographical distribution, and other facts in the natural history of the California marine and terrestrial fauna.

A recent valuable addition to the zoological collection are two living specimens of the Giant Tortoise of the Galápagos Islands, which were purchased for the University with funds in part subscribed by members of the Faculty, and in part specially appropriated for the purpose by the Regents.

Ethnology. This department contains many remarkable stone implements and skulls obtained from mounds and river gravels of the Pacific Coast, and presented to the University by D. O. Mills; wooden and stone implements, and other articles, illustrating the manners and customs of the people of the Pacific Islands, presented by the late F. L. A. Pioche; a small but good collection of Peruvian pottery, presented by Dr. W. Newcomb; a fine collection of Indian utensils, presented by W. C. Chapin; a series of excellent models of the cliffdwellings of New Mexico and Arizona; a collection of relics from Alaska and the Fiji Islands; and a recent addition of nearly forty specimens of Ancient Mexican pottery. The Museum is frequently enriched by gifts from graduates of the University.

Recently the Alaska Commercial Company has presented to the University its collection illustrative of the habits of life of the Esquimaux of Alaska and the Behring Sea. This collection has been in process of accumulation for many years, and is very rich. It is now temporarily installed in the East corridor of the Ferry Building in San Francisco, and is there available for study.

Mathematical Models. A collection of about three hundred models of mathematical curves and surfaces in plaster, thread, wire, wood, and celluloid, including the Brill collection and the Schröder models of Descriptive Geometry.

Anthropology. [See p. 150.]

Botany. The botanical collections of the University contain the following:

I. Phænogamic Herbarium of about thirty thousand sheets of mounted specimens and nearly ten thousand sheets of unmounted material which is rapidly being incorporated.

The nucleus of this collection was contributed by the State Geological Survey. The California flora is well represented by this nucleus and by the large and valuable collections which have been made in recent years in various portions of the State by instructors and advanced and graduate students, and donated to the department.

This herbarium has acquired by gift a number of important collections, among which may be mentioned about one thousand choice specimens from the southern portion of the State, from S. B. Parish, Dr. A. A. Davidson, H. P. Chandler, H. M. Hall, and others;

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