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and Assyria, Persia, Greece and Rome and of medieval sculpture 

 in Italy, France and Germany. There has been recently added 

 from the same fund a collection of casts of renaissance sculpture. 



Rutgers college, The George H. Cook museum of geology, New 

 Brunswick. Albert H. Chester, professor of mineralogy and 

 chemistry, curator, assisted by W. S. Valiant. 



Paleontology. 5750 specimens divided among the various geo- 

 logic systems as follows: Lower Silurian, including fossils from 

 the earlier formations and a fine lot of trilobites, with appen- 

 daged Triarthrus becki from Rome N. Y. 300; Upper 

 Silurian, 400; Devonian, 450; Carboniferous plant remains 

 mostly from Pennsylvania, Germany and Nova Scotia, 300; ani- 

 mal remains, 300; Triassic, 75; Jurassic, 525, mostly from foreign, 

 localities; Cretaceous, 2500, mostly from New Jersey; Tertiary^ 

 1000; Quaternary, 500. 



A great many of the type specimens used by Prof. R. P. Whit- 

 field in his report on the fossils of the clays and marls of New 

 Jersev are in this museum. 



Some of the more prominent fossils in the museum are the 

 Mannington (N. J.) mastodon; the original of the eurypterid 

 Stylonurus excelsior, of the Devonian; saurian re- 

 mains from the Cretaceous formations of New Jersey; and a slab 

 of Jura-Triassic sandstone from Morris county, N. J., showing 

 footprints of 15 species of dinosaurians. 



Mineralogy. 11,700 specimens: the George H. Cook ccllection 

 of 4500 specimens, with a large showing of New Jersey min- 

 erals — specially from the Franklin zinc mines, and the various 

 trap rock quarries through the state; the Lewis C. Beck col- 

 lection of 3000 specimens, mostly collected in New York from 

 1830 to 1850; Prof. A. H. Chester's private collection of 4550- 

 specimens, one of the finest private collections in the country, 

 is in the laboratory for use in teaching. 



Many duplicates for exchange. 



Geology. 1500 specimens: basaltic columns, large rock masses, 

 geodes, concretions, fulgurites, ripple and rain markings, mud. 

 cracks, glacial striae, etc. 



