NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMS lo 



state of Colorado, ari'an<j:ecl by counties; a series of its coal, coke 

 and iron products; samples of the massiye ores of the various 

 mines in the state and the Dr Ellsner collection of miner- 

 als from all parts of the world. 



Colorado college and Cutler academy, Colorado Sprinccs. No 

 report. 



Colorado scientific society, Boston building, Denver. 



Classified collection of minerals, rocks and fo'ssils on exhibition 

 daily except Sunday. 



Colorado school of mines. Golden. H. B. Patton, professor of 

 geology and mineralogy, in charge. 



Paleontology. A display collection mainly of fossils, M'2 sp^^ci- 

 mens and a miscellaneous collection of 1360 specimens. 



Mineralogy. A display collection of Colorado minerals, 1305 

 specimens; a type collection, 3700 specimens; a supplementary 

 collection of the rarer species, 950 specimens; a working collec- 

 tion of 21,000 specimens; and a crystallographic collection of 

 950 specimens; the R. C. Hills collection of minerals, a collection 

 of the coals of Colorado, Wyoming and Xew Mexico, 800 hand 

 specimens and slides of Colorado and Xew Mexico eruptive 

 rocks. Prof. Patton's private collection of 970 specimens is dis- 

 played. 



Historic and economic geology and lithology. A type collection 

 of rocks consisting of a) a general collection 6) a series of Colo- 

 rado rocks, 1800 specimens; a working collection of 17,400 speci- 

 mens and the U. S. geological survey educational series of rocks, 

 156 specimens. Prof. Patton's private collection of 1700 litholo- 

 gic specimens is also exhibited. 



The museum has many specimens to exchange. 



Ilining and metallurgy. Excellent set of models of furnaces,, 

 mills, crushers, with models of mines, examples of timbering, 

 etc. 



State agricultural college, Fort Collins. 



The collections are in charge of the heads of the several de- 

 partments: W. P. Headden, paleontology and mineralogy; Wendell 



