NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMS 11 



selected with the view of supplementing the forms already 



possessed; and the collection of types is now complete for the 



j)urposes of general instruction in comparative anatomy. The 



large Alaskan collections recently given to the university by 



the Alaska Commercial Company- have been recently transferred 



to the new ferry building in San Francisco for temporary exhibi- 



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 tion, and the natural history specimens are there available for 



studv by students carrving on investigations. 



Botany. Some thousands of specimens of California plants, 

 of which over a hundred are new species; a representation of 

 woods, cones and tree photographs; several hundred specimens 

 from the southern part of the state; a herbarium of the United 

 States grasses; an excellent representation of the flora and silva 

 of the southern Atlantic states; 1000 specimens from Oregon, 

 Washington and North Dakota; a fine representation of the 

 Australian flora; several thousand specimens from eastern 

 United States; 4000 specimens of ferns, mosses, hepaticas, 

 marine algae, fungi, etc., and also the algae, fungi and lichens 

 of Prof. Setchell. 



Ethnology and archeology. Many stone implements and skele- 

 tons obtained from mounds and river gravels of the Pacific 

 coast, some presented by D. O. Mills and many more recently 

 collected by various expeditions sent out by Mrs Phebe A. 

 Hearst; wooden and stone implements, and other articles illus- 

 trating the manners and customs of the people of the Pacific 

 islands, presented by F. L. A. Pioche; rich Peruvian collections; 

 Indian utensils, a series of models of the cliff dwellings of New 

 Mexico and Arizona. Recentlv the Alaska Commercial Com- 

 pany has presented to the university its collection illustrative of 

 the habits of life of the Eskimos of Alaska and the Behring sea. 

 This collection has been in process of accumulation for many 

 years, and is very rich. Extensive collections in Egyptian arche- 

 ology are being constantly received from investigations carried 

 on in Egypt through the support of Mrs Phebe A. Hearst. 



The collections belonging to the university were obtained from 

 several sources. 1) The state geological survey contributed the 



