MUSEUMS OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



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will be placed in the main room and will constitute a fine presentation 

 of the geology of Springfield and vicinity. Botany shares with geology 

 the left side of the main hall. Under this division there is an extensive 



The Museum of Natural History. Some of the Cases. 



herbarium of local flora, specimens of woods of North America and the 

 Bahamas, that show tangential, cross and radial sections, and illustra- 

 tions of the cocoanut palm, Indian corn and vegetable fibers. 



The Museum of Natural History. View from Near Entrance 



Zoology, on the east side of the room, is represented by a very com- 

 plete collection of local birds in the form of individual specimens and 

 as groups in reproductions of the natural environment. There are 

 fifteen of these groups, and they comprise the following species: song 



