4:6 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



Zoology. 13,000 specimens: an almost complete series of mam- 

 mals and birds of Indiana, numbering 500 specimens; the A. W. 

 Butler collection of the lower vertebrates of Indiana, giving ful! 

 suites of the serpents, lizards and batrachians; 500 fishes, repre- 

 sentative of the larger genera and families; the Scheuch collec- 

 tion of Coleoptera, 6000 specimens; and the Scheuch and other 

 collections of mollusks, 6000. No material for exchange. 



Botany. 8000 specimens: 5000 phanerogams; 2000 cryptogams, 

 etc.; 500 specimens of seeds and economic products; 60 of wood, 

 and 500 microscopic sections. No material for exchange. 



Ethnology. 1000 specimens: small collections of relics from 

 Fort Ouiatenon and from the Pueblo Indian villages; also collec- 

 tion of local stone implements. No exchange. 



The museum is organized for illustrative purposes in the 

 various branches of science, and other features are subordinate 

 to this. 



Taylor university. Walker museum. Upland. O. W. Brackney, 

 owato-r. 



Paleontology. 500 specimens. 



Mineralogy. 1000 specimens: iron ores best represented. 



Zoology. 100 specimens: mounted birds and animals. 



Botany. Mounted plants and specimens of wood found in this 

 vicinity. 



Ethnology and anthropology. 300 specimens: Indian relics, etc. 



Museum also possesses a collection of coins and stamps. 



Wabash college, Hovey museum, Crawfordeville. Mason B. 

 Thomas, curator; Donaldson Bodine, professor of geology and 

 zoology. 



Paleontology. 4300 specimens: 300 casts of fossil vertebrates; 

 300 fossils from the Coal Measures; 500 crinoids, 200 trilobites 

 and 3000 corals, brachiopods, gastropods, cephalopods, etc. from 

 the Keokuk group at Crawfordsville; fossil fishes from Persia; 

 and a series of mammalian fossils from California. 



The illustrative material is valuable and fairly representative. 

 The series of fossils is carefully arranged to portray the develop- 

 ment of life from the early primordial times to the present. 



