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Zoology. 100 skins of mammals; 200 mounted birds, 400 skins 

 of birds, and 500 birds nests and eggs; 100 articulated and 250 

 disarticulated skeletons; 200 alcoholic vertebrates; 100 fragile 

 objects, vertebrate and invertebrate, in glass boxes for class use; 

 500 alcoholic invertebrates; 500 anatomic preparations; 1000 

 mounted insects; 350 dried invertebrates, exclusive of concholog- 

 ical specimens; 500 conchological specimens; 1000 histologic 

 preparations; and 1500 microscope slides. 



The more important donors to these collections are, the United 

 States national museum, H. L. Osborn, the Menage scientific ex- 

 pedition. Otto Lugger and Eddy H. Greeley. 



Botany. 3300 specimens : the H. L. Osborn collection of 2000 

 specimens from the northern and eastern parts of the United 

 States; the F. W. Dewart collection of 300 specimens of the Yel- 

 lowstone national park flora; the Merrill Hitchcock collection of 

 500 specimens of Vermont flora; collection of Mrs Thomas G-. 

 Lee of flowering plants, a collection of fungi and lichens; and a 

 local herbarium of 500 specimens. 



Ethnology. 200 specimens: from Liberia, Africa, donated by 

 Rev. B. F. Kephart and Eddy H. Greely; 50 relics of the Ameri- 

 can Indians received from N. J. Lillibridge. 



Minnesota academy of natural sciences, Minneapolis. Charles P. 

 Berkey, cwTesponding secretary. 



Paleontology. 1000 invertebrate fossils; 500 vertebrate. 



Mineraihgy. 2500 specimens. 



Geology. 500 rich specimens. 



Zoology. 100 mammals and reptiles, 100 reserve; 1100 birds 

 (mounted), 3500 reserve; 500 corals; 1000 shells and miscel- 

 laneous specimens. Those marked reserve are not mounted and 

 not on exhibition. 



Ethnology. 1500 weapons, tools, clothing, etc.; 300 photo- 

 graphs from the orient. These with the specimens under zo- 

 ology are almost exclusively from the Philippine islands and 

 the collection is one of the most complete in the world. 



In the library are 9291 publications of scientific societies. 



Besides the above there are loaned to other neighboring muse- 

 ums large collections of certain groups not counted in the list. 



