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Botany. 2500 specimens: Brainerd collection of phanerogams 

 nnd ferns of the Champlaiu valley said to lack about 50 species 

 of comprising the full flora of the state; a set of Vermont mosses 

 prepared by Dr Grout; 400 or 500 specimens of the basidio- 

 mycetous fungi of Vermont, now accumulating. 



Ethnology and archeology. The Chapman collection of apparel 

 and implements from the Yukon valley, Alaska; stone imple- 

 ments; several Assyrian tablets and casts, contributed by the 

 Kev. Dr Farnsworth; and a series of relics of local and general 

 historic interest. 



The museum contains, primarily, collections illustrating the 

 natural history of Vermont which have been made from time to 

 time. They have been suitably arranged and cared for, so that 

 theT form an educational factor of value to the students. 



University of Vermont, Burlington. George H. Perkins, pro- 

 fessor of natural history and curator of the museum; L. R. Jones, 

 professor of botany, in charge of the cryptogamic and local col- 

 lections herbarium; C. G. Pringle, keeper of the herbarium, in 

 charge of main herbarium; E. C. Jacobs, professor of mineralogy, 

 in charge of the mineralogic collections. Student assistants are 

 employed from year to year. 



Paleontology. 5000 specimens particularly representative of 

 Vermont formations: the Cambrian fauna from the Georgia 

 elates and the red sandrock of western Vermont; the Calciferous 

 fauna from various localities, including a nearly complete set 

 of the Fort Oassin fossils described in bulletins of the American 

 museum of natural history; the Trenton, Chazy and Black river 

 fauna from various parts of the Champlain valley; and the 

 Brandon lignites with carpolites, etc., from the Tertiary forma- 

 tions; specimens from America or Europe illustrating all the 

 principal epochs. 



Cambrian, Trenton and some Calciferous fossils for exchange. 



Mineralogy. 5000 specimens: a good general collection of 

 American and European minerals, including some very fine 

 specimens; numerous specimens of Sicilian sulfur, celestite, etc., 

 collected by the Hon. George P. Marsh. 



Lithology. 2000 specimens: a series of the marbles and other 

 metamorphic rocks of Vermont: a series of several hundred speci- 



