42 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



Northwestern college, Naperville. L. M. Umbach, professor of 

 natural sciences, in charge. 



Paleontology. 300 specimens: including Silurian species from 

 Illinois, Iowa and Indiana; many Devonian Mollusca, etc., from 

 Ohio; and good collection of Carboniferous plants from Mazon 

 creek, Grundy co. 111. 



Mineralogy, economic and historic geology, and lithology. The 

 combined collections aggregate about GOO specimens, including 

 rocks from the glacial drift of this region; a series of agatized 

 woods from Colorado; lithologic material from Massachusetts 

 and Connecticut; and an economic collection illustrating the 

 mining regions of northern Wisconsin and Michigan. 



Zoology. A small series of local mammals, birds, reptiles, and 

 fishes — about 150 specimens in all. 



Botany. 17,000 specimens illustrating about 5000 species of 

 plants: a fair representation of the flora of North America; 

 quite complete herbarium of plants from the vicinity of Chi- 

 cago; about 350 Yucatan species and a small herbarium of 

 European species. 



Exchange list includes 2000 specimens of about 1200 differ- 

 ent species. 



Ethnology. 350 specimens, including several skeletons, articles 

 of wearing apparel, stone implements, etc. 



Taylor museum, Blackburn university, Carlinville. J. 1). Conley 

 in charge; Charles Robertson, assistant. 



Paleontology. 12,000 specimens: representing nearly every 

 epoch throughout the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras; a large part 

 of the Van Cleve corals figured in the Indiana report; richer in 

 drift corals than anything else but with an equal number of 

 Silurian, Devonian and Carboniferous fossils; a large number of 

 duplicates of the above fossils but comparatively few species 

 in the Jurassic, Cretaceous and Tertiary. 



Mineralogy. 5000 specimens: copper and iron ores; volcanic 

 products. 



Hhtoric and economic geology and lithology. One of the largest 

 collections in the state consisting of 75 cases averaging 4x5 feet 

 wall space; specimens labeled but not catalogued. 



