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Zoology and hotany. Extensive collections for class use only 

 and therefore not considered as part of the museum. 



Ethrwloyy and a/t'cheology. 3000 specimens: exhibiting the 

 archeology of several well marked archeologic districts of 

 Mexico; illustrating the food supply, arts and industries of the 

 ■cUiX dwellers of Utah; collections from the Aleutian islands and 

 from Japan, illustrating the ethnology of those regions; articles 

 illustrating the ethnology of the Pueblo Indians of Mexico, and 

 the Swiss lake dwellers; and several loan collections. 



Total, 400,000 specimens. 



College of liberal arts, Northwestern university, Evanston. 

 U. S. Grant curator; A. R. Crook mineralogy; C. B. Atwell, 

 botany; W. A. Locy zoology; and W. A. Phillips anthropology. 



Paleontology. 3000 fossils from the Subcarboniferous of 

 Illinois; a large number of specimens from the Coal Measures of 

 Illinois; 300 specimens, including several types, from the Niagara 

 group in the vicinity of Chicago; and 1000 specimens from the 

 •Cretaceous and Tertiary formations of Alabama. 



Mineralogy. Some interesting material from the Lake Superior 

 region; from Hot Springs Ark.; from the Yellowstone national 

 park; and from the Black Hills of South Dakota. Much fine ma- 

 terial was obtained from the World's Columbian exposition. 



Mineralogy and lithology. 22,000 specimens: including a series 

 -of specimens from the typical localities of Europe; a set of rocks 

 of Illinois; a set from the Black Hills of South Dakota; and a 

 fiet from the Yellowstone national park; a set from the Lake 

 Superior district and the U. S. geological survey educational 

 series of rocks. Also a set of rocks from the copper bearing 

 formation of Lake Superior and ore from the upper Mississippi 

 lead and zinc district; these two sets are the property of the 

 Wisconsin geological and natural history survey. 



Zoology. 28,000 specimens: 3000 birds; 700 reptiles and batra- 

 chians; 900 fishes and 18,000 shells. 



Botany. 20,000 specimens, including the college and Babcock 

 herbariums, and various collections received from the World's 

 •Columbian exposition. 



