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Zoology. 325 specimens: birds and mammals with nests and 

 eggs. Also a collection of insects injurious to forests, pre- 

 pared by Dr John B. Smith of Rutgers college for exhibition at 

 the Pan-American exposition. 



Botany. Collection kept at Rutgers college. A new collec- 

 tion of New Jersey woods is being made, which contains now 100 

 specimens intended as an educational exhibit. It includes the 

 leaves, flowers and fruit of the trees. 



Ethnohgy and anthropology. A small collection of Indian relics. 



Princeton university museums, Princeton. William Libbey, pro- 

 fessor of physical geography and director of the E. M. museum of 

 geology and arcJieology; Arnold E. Ortmann, curator of in/vertehrate 

 paleontology; Marcus S. Farr, curator of vertebrate paleontology; 

 Henry B. Cornwall, professor of applied chemistry and mineralogy 

 and director of mineraloglcal cahmet; Alexander H. Phillips^ 

 assistant professor of 7ninet^alogy ; George Macloskie, professor of 

 liology and director of the John C. Green school of science, hiological 

 museum; Walter M. Rankin, assistant pi^ofessor of biology and 

 curator of the zoological nvusewm; Allan Marquand, professor of 

 archeology and history of art and director of the museum of 

 historic art. 



Pakontology. 15,000 species: skeletons of a mastodon, Irish 

 elk, cave bear and some of the extinct birds of New Zealand; a 

 skull of the Uintatherium and a remarkably complete skeleton of 

 Cervalces; mounted casts of the gigantic reptiles and mam- 

 mals of the Secondary, Tertiary and Quaternary ages; a very 

 perfect collection of vertebrate and invertebrate fossils from Eu- 

 rope and America illustrating the principal organic forms of all 

 the geologic epochs; fine Eocene, Oligocene and Miocene fossils, 

 many of which are type specimens, procured in the west by the 

 various collecting parties from the university; a series of fossil 

 plants from Colorado, many of which are type specimens. The 

 typical fossils selected agree, so far as possible, with those men- 

 tioned in Dana's Geology as characteristic of different geologic 

 periods. 



