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laboratories. They are growing steadily, but always in the direc- 

 tion of rendering more perfect the means of illustrating the 

 different branches of natural history, and with no intention of 

 building up a collection of curiosities or miscellaneous articles. 



Thiel collegfe, Greenville. No report. 



University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Amo'S P. Brown, pro- 

 fessor of mineralogy and geology; John M. Macfarlane, professor of 

 hotany and director of the botanic garden; Edwin G. Conklin, pro- 

 fessor of zoology; and Stewart Culin in charge of the ethnologic 

 collection. 



Paleontology. 15,000 specimens: a series of fossils from the 

 va-rious Paleozoic formations of New York state, some of which 

 are the type specimens described in the Paleontology of New Tork; 

 Cretaceous fossils from the western states; Cenozoic and 

 Mesozoic fossils from the Gulf and Atlantic coasts; many type 

 specimens of the Galveston Tex. deep well fossils; various in- 

 dividual type specimens, and small collections; and a duplicate 

 set of a part of the Paleozoic invertebrate fossils collected by the 

 Pennsylvania geological survey. Monographic collections of 

 certain groups are also included; as for example Bryozoa by 

 Ulrich, and Ostracoda by Bassler. 



Specimens from the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of Eocene, 

 Miocene and Pliocene invertebrates in excellent condition, for ex- 

 change. 



Miiveralogy. 20,000 exhibited specimens and 5000 duplicates 

 forming a nearly complete series of the known and recognized 

 species of minerals. New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and 

 North Carolina are specially well represented; Europe and the 

 western states are also well represented. The collections of Dr 

 F. A. Genth, Prof. E. D. Cope and Dr S. B. How^ell, of the uni- 

 versity, are included, also numerous donations, including the 

 important Clay collection and about 100 duplicate specimens 

 from the Bement collection. The recent purchase of the Car- 

 deza collection of minerals of southeastern Pennsvlvania and 

 adjoining states has increased the collection by some 10,000 

 specimens. Dr Genth's corundum alterations are represented 

 by a set of specimens. 



