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Economic geology. 500 specimens : important varieties of ores^ 

 iron, copper, lead, zinc, gold, silver and antimony. 



Zoology. 100 well mounted mammals and birds. Marine and 

 fresh-water shells. 



Ethnology. A few relics of the American Indians and the 

 Mound Builders. 



Hiram college museum, Hiram. George H. Colton, professor of 

 natural science. 



Paleontology. 1000 specimens: Paleozoic time is the best 

 represented, but there is some material of later age. 



Mineralogy. 1200 specimens: the more common minerals and 

 ores from various localities. 



Economic geology. 100 specimens: collections of building 

 stones and fire clays. 



Zoology. 1000 specimens: a collection of birds; shells from 

 the Hawaiian islands. 



Botany. A small herbarium and a small number of woods. 



Ethnology. 2000 specimens: Indian relics from the neighbor- 

 hood; some implements, war clubs, etc. from the South Sea 

 islands. 



Oberlin college museum, Oberlin. Albert A. Wright, curator, 

 Lvnds Jones, assistant curator. 



Paleontology. 5700 trays of specimens, each containing from 

 1 to 50 individual specimens. This includes 4000 trays of 

 Paleozoic fossils, one half of which are from the Carboniferous 

 formations; a fine series of fossil fishes from the Upper De- 

 vonian formations, including type specimens of Mylostoma, 

 Titanichthys, Dinichthys, etc.; numerous bones of C a m a r a- 

 saurus supremus Cope, from Canyon City Col.; a 

 mastodon skull and tusks from Loraine countv, O.; a series of 

 400 trays of Mesozoic fossils; 650 trays of Tertiary forms; and 

 300 of Pleistocene fossils from southern California. 



Mineralogy. 2950 trays of specimens of general distribution; 

 also a set of 900 trays for laboratory use. 



Historic geology. General series of 1500 trays of specimens; a 

 series of 2200 trays illustrating geologic phenomena. 



Economic geology. 800 trays. 



