NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMS G9 



Geology. 4000 specimens, most fully representing^- the divis- 

 ions of dynamic geology and petrography (lithology and petrol- 

 ogy); historic geology not prominent. 



Zoology. 120,000 specimens: mounted mammals, 118; mounted 

 birds, 12,328, including the Lafresnaye collection, containing 

 more than five hundred types; Samuel Cabot's collection with 

 his types, and the Bryant collection named by Ridgway; 5000 

 unmounted bird skins, and 5200 birds eggs; 1000 mounted speci- 

 mens received from the Boston museum and including a large 

 part of the collection formerly in Peale's museum in Philadel- 

 phia. Among these are a number of Wilson's and Bonaparte's 

 types and specimens figured in their works on American ornithol- 

 ogy, also a number of specimens from both the Lewis and Clark's 

 and Long's expeditions; reptiles, 817; amphibians, 424; fishes, 

 4500; mollusks 35,000, including many of the type specimens de- 

 scribed by Gould, Bland and Binney, Achatinellae described by 

 'Gulick, and Strophias described by Maynard; crustaceans, 2500; 

 insects 50,000, including the Harris collection, some specimens of 

 which were named by Thomas Say, and the Burnett collection; 

 including a number of type specimens of parasites; worms, 800; 

 -echinoderms, 1700; coelenterates, 1000; and sponges, 1475. 



The Wyman anatomic collection contains manv of Dr 

 Wyman's type specimens. 



Botany. 85,280 specimens: the John A. Low^ell herbarium of 

 17,780 specimens; the C. J. Sprague collection of 2550 North 

 American lichens; part of the Cummings, Williams and Seymour 

 collection, 250; the Seymour and Earle collection of 450 speci- 

 mens of economic fungi; a special New England collection of 

 4750, and the society's general herbarium of 39,500 specimens; 

 preparations and originals from the microscopic collections of 

 Bailey, Glenn, Greenleaf, Habirstraw, Burnett and Wyman. 



Ethnology. Collections have been given to the Peabody 

 museum of archeology and ethnology in Cambridge. 



The plan of the museum has been limited in order that its 

 growth might not interfere v>ith the prosperity of the society 

 .and its most important function, the publication of original re- 



