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Pennsylvania state colleg-e, State Colle^^'. The collections are 

 not united as a nuiseuni, but each technical department has a 

 <?ollection wliicli is in charge of the head of the depart- 

 ment. M. E. Wadsworth, professor of inining and geoloyy; 

 N. W. Shed, assistant in mlninij and metallunjij; W. A. Buckhout, 

 professor of hotany ; H. A. Surface, professor of zoology; H. V. 

 Armsby, professor of agriculture; and G. G. Pond, professor of 

 chemistry. 



Paleontology. 2000 specimens: the Ward collection represent- 

 ing all geologic formations; Corniferous fossils from Columbus 

 O.; specimens from the Cincinnati group of southeastern 

 Indiana, from the Niagara group of Waldron Ind. and from the 

 Subcarboniferous limestone of Indiana; fossil leaves from the 

 Cretaceous formations of Dakota; material from the Trenton and 

 Hudson river groups. about State College Pa., and from the 

 Coal Measures of Allegany Pa. 



Mineralogy. 10,000 specimens: a large exhibition collection; 

 a series illustrating physical properties, crystallization, etc., for 

 the use of students. 



Historic geology. A general stratigraphic series; the material 

 collected bv the first and second seolooic survevs of Pennsvl- 

 vania. 



LitJiology. A series of European rocks; rocLs of the state; and 

 a set of the United States geological survey collection of 200 

 rock types. 



Economic geology. 5000 specimens: the Pennsylvania exhibit 

 of ores, minerals and economic products at the World's Colum- 

 bian exposition; a polylith of 281 building stones of Pennsyl- 

 vania and elsewhere; special collections of ores and ore-bearing 

 rocks from Colorado and iron ores from the Lake Superior 

 region; a general collection of economic minerals and rocks 

 from Germany. 



Zoology. 15,000 specimens: a general collection of 10,000 

 specimens; a special series of Pennsylvania vertebrates, a 

 nearly complete representation; a special collection of insects 

 showing their various stages of development and their work. 



Botany. A herbarium of 4000 phanerogams, a serit^s of 1500 

 species of seeds; specimens of woods of Pennsylvania from the 

 state forestry exhibit at the World's Columbian exposition. 



