c Water Works is established upon the summit of the hill, and, in
effect, forms a part of the College grounds; so that, in the summer
season, there is no more beautiful or attractive spot in the whole
region about Boston than College Hill. In 1882-3 a very important
feature was added to its cluster of buildings by the erection of a stone
chapel from funds provided by Mary T. Goddard. The style of the edifice
is Romanesque with a genuine Lombardic tower. It is as graceful a piece
of architecture as can be found in this part of the country and is a
worthy memorial of the woman, who, with her noble husband, has been so
efficient a promoter of the origin and growth of the institution. Since
the completion of the chapel, Mrs. Goddard has built and finished at her
own expense an excellent gymnasium.

One of the most important additions of recent years has been the
founding of the Barnum Museum of Natural History. In the spring of 1883,
the writer suggested to the Honorable P. T. Barnum that as he had been
all his life engaged in collecting rare objects in certain departments
of natural history for the purpose alike of popular amusement and
instruction, it would be most appropriate for him to leave behind him,
as his monument, a natural history museum in connection with the College
of which he was one of the original promoters and founders. The response
was instantaneous. He directed me at once to procure plans and
specifications of a building which would admit of indefinite extension,
and submit to him an estimate of the cost. In accordance with the
foregoing scheme, the present museum building has been erected; and a
beginning has been made also in the endowment fund. The museum, which
is only the central portion of what is intended to be a much larger
building, is a structure of dignity and beauty. The first, or basement
floor, which is almost wholly above ground, is occupied by the
steam-engine and by the necessary laboratories and work-rooms. The
second, or main floor has, besides a large lecture-room, a grand
vestibule, containing a marble bust of the donor, by Thomas Ball. Here
the larger and more important specimens of natural history now belonging
to the College are deposited. Here also the skin of Jumbo and the
skeleton of the white elephant are to find their ultimate resting-place.
The third floor comprises a large exhibition hall, fifty feet wide by
seventy feet long, with a gallery running completely around it. In