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Lithology. 25,000 specimens: working collections of rocks for 

 both elementary and advanced work in petrography. Material 

 for exchange. 



Zoology. A good working series, specially rich in the Puget 

 sound fauna, and embryologic preparations. 



Botany. 500,000 siDecimens: the university collection proper; 

 collections of the following botanists: Torrey, Meisner, and Chap- 

 man; the Austin and the Jaeger moss herbariums; and many 

 smaller collections. Collections and library will be placed in 

 the Bronx park botanic garden, where the advanced work will be 

 carried on. Many duplicates for exchange. 



Etlmology. The university avails itself of the collections of 

 the American museum of natural history. 



Cornell university museum, Ithaca. There is no museum staff, 

 the collections being in charge of the professors of the several 

 departments. Geology (including paleontology, mineralogy, eco- 

 nomic geology and physical geography), Kalph S. Tarr, professor 

 of dynamiic geology and physical geography; Gilbert D. Harris, 

 assista/nt professor of paleontology ; A. C. Gill, assistant professor of 

 mineralogy and petrography ; Heinrich Ries, assistant professor 

 of economic geology, and student assistants. Department of 

 entomology and invertebrate zoology, John H. Comstock, 

 professor of entomology and general i^wertehrate zoology; M. Y. 

 Slingerland, assistant entomologist; Alexander D. MacGillivray 

 and W. A. Riley, instructors in entomology. Department of 

 vertebrate zoology, Burt G. Wilder, professor of neurology, 

 vertebrate zoology and physiology. G. S. Hopkins, assistant 

 professot^ of veterinary anatomy and anatomical methods; B. B. 

 Stroud, instructor in physiology, vertebrate zoology and neur- 

 ology. Department of botany, George F. Atkinson, professor of 

 botany; L. H. Bailey, pi'ofessor of general and experimental horti- 

 culture; W. W. Rowlee, assistant professor of botany; G. N. Lau- 

 man, instructor in horticulture; E. J. Durand and Karl McKay 

 Wiegand, instructors in botany, and Robert Shore, assistant to 

 professor of botany and head gardener. Department of classical 



