NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMS 17 



Geology. 1200 specimens, a poitiou of which are in the high 

 school. 



Trinity college museum, Hartford. Charles Lincoln Edwards 

 in charge; Karl Wilhelm Genthe, instructor in natioral history. 



Paleontology. TYjjical fossils, originals and casts; among the 

 latter are Icthyosanrus, Plesiosaiirus, ^lastodon, Dinothcrium, 

 Olyptodon, Megatherium and about CO Ammonites. 



Mineralogy. Type minerals, specially from New York and Xew 

 England, also many European specimens. 



Historic and economic geology and lithology. Models and photo- 

 ;grai:>hs of volcanic and other important mountains; collections 

 illustrating Yesuvian minerals and rocks and the Triassic for- 

 mations of Connecticut; Ward collection illustrating the Xew 

 Y'ork system of rocks; \Yard stratigraphic collection, and Ward 

 systematic collection of rocks (college series). 



Zoology. Skeletons of mammals, birds nests and eggs, shells 

 and corals; Blaschka glass models of Hydrozoa; Ziegler's wax 

 models showing development of the frog and chick. 



Botany. Herbarium of Nebraska plants. 



Ethnology arid anthropology. War clubs, arrowheads, pipes, 

 dresses, pottery, etc., and material, including a skeleton, from 

 the Santa Catalina islands. 



Wesleyan university, Middletowm. B. P. Raymond, president, in 

 charge, assisted by W. N. Rice^ professor of geology, H. W. Conn, 

 professor of biology, and S. W. Loper, curator. 



Paleontology. 15,000 specimens: including Lower Silurian 

 fossils from Caiion City, Colorado, and Yalcour island. Lake 

 Champlain; Subcarboniferous fossils from Chattanooga Tenn., 

 and Crawfordsville Ind.; a fine representation of Triassic fishes, 

 and some fossil footprints of dinosaurs, etc. from the shales and 

 sandstones of the Connecticut valley; lithographic limestone 

 fossils from Solenhofen; a fine representation of Tertiary plants, 

 insects, and fishes from Fossil Wv. and Florissant Col.; manv 

 casts of fossils made bv Ward and others. 



Duplicates of Triassic fishes from the Connecticut valley, and 

 fossils from Caiion Citv Col. and Fossil Wv. for exchange. 



