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Zoology. 250 specimens of mammals and birds; 200 fishes, am- 

 phibians and reptiles; 500 shells; and 200 marine and fresh- 

 water invertebrates. 



Botany. 2500 specimens: chiefly illustrative of Nebraska 

 phanerog^am^j, but represent forms from other states and Eu- 

 rope. 



Ethnology. 150 specimens of implements, utensils, etc., of the 

 American Indians and of African tribes. 



Nebraska Wesleyan university, University Place. No report. 



University of Nebraska state museum, Lincoln. Erwin H. Bar- 

 bour, aoting state geologist, curator. 



Owing to lack of available space for exhibition purposes, the 

 museum is not at present well arranged. Some valuable col- 

 lections, chiefly of geologic and paleontologic material, have been 

 obtained by class excursions from the university. 35,000 speci- 

 mens have been added during the past three years by the state 

 geological survey, being obtained chiefly from the Carboniferous 

 and Dakota Cretaceous of Nebraska and surrounding states. 



The archeologic, ethnologic, paleontologic and forestry collec- 

 tions are valued at |50,000. Among the geologic material is a 

 set of specimens of the core of a test well some 2500 feet in 

 depth, bored near Lincoln. 



The present museum is so overcrowded that arrangements 

 have been made to store everything in fireproof buildings down 

 town till a new museum can be built. 



NEVADA 



State university, Reno. No report. 



NEW HAMPSHIRE 



Dartmouth college, Butterfield museum, Hanover. The collec- 

 tions are in charge of the heads of the respective departments: 

 G. H. Hitchcock, geology, civrator of museum; William Patten, 

 zoology; and G. R. Lyman, botany. 



Palwntology. Collections are mostly incorporated with those 

 illustrating historic geology. They include one of the James 



