NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMS 2i> 



Entomoloyy. 16,000 specimens, many unnamed, tliougb about 

 2000 species have been determined by authorities of high stand- 

 ing. 



Botany. More than 10,000 sheets of flowering pUmts; also col- 

 * lections of woods, tree fruits, fungi, etc. 



Archeolofjy. 100 specimens; also some arrowheads and minor 

 articles. 



ILLINOIS 



Augustana college, Rock Island. J. A. L'dden, curator. The 

 mueeum is intended as an adjunct in instruction, but is also de- 

 voted to the care of local natural history material. 



Paleontology. 4000 specimens: general collection; McMaster 

 collection from Rock Island and vicinity. 



Mineralogy. 500 specimens: general. 



Historic and economic geology and Uthology. 1000 specimens: 

 rocks, 500; formational collection of rocks and some fossils, 300; 

 collection illustrating dynamic geology, folds, mud cracks, c on- 

 cretions, etc., 200. 



Zoology. 3000 specimens: 2000 general; egg collection, 100 

 species. 



Botany. 3000 specimens: exsiccate phanerogams. 



Ethnology and anthropology. 1000 specimens: 500 coins; Kaffir 

 articles of ornament, etc.; Hindu w^orkmanship; American In- 

 dian relics. 



Austin college, Effingham. Xo report. 



Carthage college, Carthage. Xo report. 



Chicago academy of sciences, Lincoln park, Chicago. Thomas C» 

 Chamberlin, president; ^Yilliam K. Higley, secretary; Frank C. 

 Baker, curator in charge; Frank M. Woodruff, taxidermist. 



Paleontology. 12,000 specimens representing 1600 species of 

 fossils: specially rich in forms of Silurian and Carboniferous 

 formations; nearly complete collection of Niagara fossils from 

 Chicago region containing about 30 type specimens; a mountec! 

 skeleton of Elephae primigenius and a good specimen 

 of a skull of Castoroides ohioensis. The Cincinnati 



