50 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



Ethnology. 800 specimens: a valuable collection of skulls, 

 ivory carving and implements from the Eskimo and Indian 

 tribes of arctic America; pottery and utensils from Mexico, 

 Arizona and New Mexico; and a small collection of skulls and 

 pottery of the mound builders, from Missouri and Iowa. 



Upper Iowa university, Fayette. Bruce Fink in charge. 



Paleoniology. 1000 specimens: Silurian and Devonian fossils 

 of Iowa; Cretaceous fossils of Kansas; Carboniferous fossils of 

 Penns3^1vania ; also a small geologic collection from Germany. 

 Some local forms for exchange, specially Atrypa reticu- 

 laris, and Terebratula iowensis. 



Mineralogy. 500 minerals from American localities. 



Plicnomcnal geology. 100 specimens: ripple marks, stalactites, 

 geodes, concretions, peat, etc. 



Zoology. 600 specimens: 25 mammals, 25 birds, 200 reptiles 

 and fishes, 100 insects, and 200 marine invertebrates. 



Botany. A herbarium of 12,000 specimens. Three fourths of 

 the herbarium are forms lower than Anthophytae, lichens being 

 the best represented group. An immense variety- of lichens for 

 exchange. 



Ethnology. 125 paleolithic implements and relics of the Ameri- 

 can Indians. 



Wartburg teachers seminary and academy, Waverly. The Rev. 

 Frederick Lutz, president in charge. 



Paleontology. 938 specimens: chiefly from formations of the 

 Silurian and Devonian systems. 



Mineralogy. 1434 specimens. 



Historic and economic geology and Uthology. 352 specimens. 



Zoology. 1128 specimens illustrating every division of the ani- 

 mal kingdom, specially birds. 



Botamj. 1151 specimens: a general herbarium, and a collec- 

 tion of woods. 



Ethnology. 452 specimens. There is an art collection con- 

 nected with the museum. 



Western college, Toledo. No report. 



