100 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



LitJiOlogi/. In the laboratory of the school of science are 240 

 gpecimens of typical rocks, together with a large number of 

 Fuess's and other rock sections for study. 



Zoology. 1600 mounted and disarticulated skeletons of 

 mammals, birds, reptiles and fishes. There are over 12,000 

 specimens in the ornithologic collections starting with a 

 mounted collection of representative New Jersey birds. The 

 relations of these to the avifauna of the world is shown by col- 

 lections of unmounted skins in the following groups: North 

 America, Europe, Indo-Australia and South America. The 

 South American collection has been materially augmented 

 through the work done by the Hatcher expeditions to Patagonia, 

 the results being some 600 birds. The collections are further 

 supplemented by some four thousand sets of eggs, many of them 

 in nests, as well as much alcoholic material and many skeletons. 

 2000 European and Asiatic birds have recently been received 

 through exchange with the British museum of natural history. 

 Mr W. E. D. Scott is curator of ornithology. 



Among the invertebrates are a series of ascidians, echino- 

 derms, mollusks, 5000 specimens; corals, 6000 specimens; sponges 

 and microscopic preparations of small forms. 1500 prepara- 

 tions illustrating comparative morphology of the vertebrate 

 organs. 



Botany. Collections are arranged for exhibition and also as a 

 working laboratory for students. The plants are classified ac- 

 cording to the Pflanzenfamilien of Engler & Prantl and include 

 specimens from the different sections of the United States and 

 from South America, Europe and Australia. Recently the her- 

 barium has been increased by the addition of collections of hepa- 

 ticae, mosses and other plants, made by Dr Hatcher in western 

 Patagonia and Fuegia. 



There are extra specimens for laboratory use and for dissection, 

 together with the necessarv librarv and instruments. 



Archeology and ethnology. Relics of the Swiss lake dwellings 

 and numerous implements of stone and bronze from Denmark; 



