NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMS 9 



Zoology. Collection of skulls of dilferent classes of mammals; 

 120 alcoholic specimens of invertebrates from Lenoir «& Forster, 

 Vienna; 101 Leuchardt charts; 100 Gerold's charts. 



Botany. 1500 specimens of plants and a fine collection of 

 BrondePs models in hardened gelatin, illustrating specially the 

 fertilization of crji)togams, mosses, molds, bacteria, etc. 



Ethnology and anthropology. A collection of skulls of the dif- 

 ferent races of men. 



The museum also contains a collection of relief maps. 



State mining bureau, San Francisco. L. E. Aubury, state miiv- 

 eralogist; J. M. Cline, curator. 



15,750 specimens: ores, minerals, rocks, etc., principally from 

 California and the Pacific coast, but to a small extent represent- 

 ing the whole world. 



One side of the museum is devoted to California. Collections 

 are arranged by counties and districts; and there are 32 cases 

 of gold quartz, five of silver ores, five of copper, four of quick- 

 silver, one of iron, one of chrome iron ore, and two of the ores 

 of manganese, antimony, lead, zinc, etc. Marbles and building 

 stones of the state are also represented. 



On the opposite side of the museum are 34 cases of crystallized 

 minerals, largely from California, but also foreign. These are 

 arranged mineralogically: two cases of iron, two of copper, one 

 of manganese ores, etc. 



There is also a series of economic minerals, such as borax, 

 niter, sulfur, alum, crude and refined oils, asphalt, coals, clays, 

 gypsum, etc., chiefly from California, arranged to show the state 

 resources. 



The vestibule is largely devoted to paleontology, and contains 

 some ethnologic and historic specimens. 



There are also many models of mining machinery and mine 

 timbering, photographs and maps. 



University of California, Berkeley. J. C. ^lerriam professor of 

 paleontology : A. C. Lawson professor of mineralogy and geology; 

 W. E. Bitter professor of zoology; William Albert Setchell pro- 

 fessor of hot any ; A. L. Kroeber professor of ethnology and archeo- 

 logy. 



