58 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



LOUISIANA 



Louisiana state university and agricultural and mechanical college 

 museum, Baton Rouge. The collections are distributed among 

 the various departments and are in charge of the professors of 

 each department. 



Geology and mineralogy. Collections representative, classified 

 and arranged. 



Zoology. Several cabinets of mammals and birds; five large 

 cabinets of shells; several hundred jars of invertebrates (all the 

 types represented); a few dried specimens of invertebrates and 

 a few skeletons; also many charts and drawings. 



Entomology. 150 cases of insects principally southern. 



Botany. Between 1500 and 2000 classified specimens and a 

 great deal of material preserved in formalin and alcohol. 



There has been recently established on the Gulf of Mexico, in 

 Louisiana, a gulf biologic station through which the collections 

 of this institution will be greatly increased. 



Tulane university of Louisiana, Tulane museum, New Orleans. 

 George E. Beyer, curator and professor of Hology and natural 

 history. 



Paleontology. 3000 fossils and casts of fossils, of general dis- 

 tribution. The entire department is in course of reconstruction 

 just at present. 



Mineralogy. 5000 specimens: one of the largest collections in 

 the south, representing between 400 and 500 species and 

 varieties. 



Historic geology. 300 specimens: a general stratigraphic series, 

 illustrating rocks of the various formations and periods from 

 the Archaean to the Quaternary; and a special series illus- 

 trating the geology of New York. 



Zoology. Collections illustrate all classes and nearly all orders, 

 those in mammalogy, ornithology, herpetology, ichthyology and 

 conchology being extensive and specially representative of 

 Louisiana and the southern states. Invertebrate zoology is 

 fairly well represented, and is particularly complete in Mollusca. 



