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attention, and important industrial exhibits have been formed, show- 

 ing the development of commerce and manufactures in western Penn- 

 sylvania. 



It is far, however, from the purpose of the Trustees to restrict 

 the Museum to the work which has just been outlined. The whole 

 field of research is before them, and already very large accumulations 

 of material from distant parts of our own continent and from foreign 

 lands have been brought together. The collections already in the 

 possession of the Museum may be approximately classified as follows: 



Species and 



Varieties. Specimens. 



Minerals 400 4,000 



Geological Specimens 1,000 



Botany (recent species) 17,000 100,000 



Botany (fossil) 150 1,200 



Paleontology (invertebrate 500 2,400 



Paleontology (vertebrate) 160 3,500 



Porifera, Echinoderms, etc 500 1,250 



Mollusca 9,500 100,000 



Crustacea 100 2,000 



Arachnida 300 1,200 



Myriapoda 50 1,200 



Hymenoptera 1250 4,000 



Lepidopte. a 20,000 300,000 



Diptera 1,000 5,000 



Coleoptera 20,000 275,000 



Hemiptera 750 4,000 



Orthoptera 400 1,600 



Neuroptera 300 1,200 



Fishes 500 1,800 



Eeptilia and Batrachia 150 1 ,750 



Birds 1,200 9,000 



Mammals 300 1,050 



Total 74,510 822,150 



The foregoing table shows that the collections representing the 

 various classes in the vegetable and animal kingdom are somewhat un- 

 equal in the matter of extent. The assemblage of shells is already large 

 because of the acquisition by the Museum of several considerable col- 

 lections, one of them made in South America by Mr. Herbert H. Smith; 

 the other by the late F. E. Holland, which contains a large number of 

 species represented by cotypes and specimens autographically labeled 

 by Adams, Anthony, Bland and other early American conchologists. 

 This collection at the time of its acquisition by the Carnegie Museum 

 contained over six thousand species and is especially rich in West 

 Indian terrestrial mollusca. The collection of Lepidoptera is also 

 exceedingly rich in species, as well as specimens, containing as it does, 

 the entire collection of Mr. W. H. Edwards, the author of the 'Butterflies 



