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tions; plaster models of many forms; enlarged models in wax of 

 polyps, etc.; a large series of corals, dried specimens, etc. 



Botany. 30,000 specimens: herbariums of Europe, Nortli Amer- 

 ica, West Indies and Syria; collections of fruits and models of 

 them; woods; dissected models of fruits and flowers; and 

 pressed specimens of typical plants with engrayings of their 

 parts. 



Eflmolof/ij and archeology. Collections yery small. 



The museum is composed of specimens intended strictly for il- 

 lustrating the principles of the sciences taught, the aim being 

 to giye full representation of the natural objects. It is strictly a 

 teachers museum. 



Virginia polytechnic institute, Blacksburg. Ellison A. Smyth, 

 in charge of natural history museum; John Spencer, state 

 vetermarian, yeterinary department ; Robert C. Price, mvtieralogy ; 

 W. B. Alwood. state entomologist, in charge of fungi, scale insects, 

 etc. in station building. 



Mineralogy. 900 species: the various groups of ores (oxids, 

 carbonates, sulfids, silicates, etc.); metals of economic yalue; 

 minerals of industrial importance. 



Historic and economic geology amd litliologj/. 800 species: yarious 

 classes of rocks and different formations; 'an educational series 

 presented by the United States geological suryey. 



Zoology. 1200 North American bird skins; a small collection 

 of mounted birds; shells, marine inyertebrates, etc., sufficient to 

 illustrate the work of the institute in zoology; on deposit for an 

 indefinite time, 3500 species, 25,000 specimens, rich in the genus 

 Papilio (236 species) and the Sphingidae (145 species) of natiye 

 and exotic butterflies and moths; the station collection of natiye 

 insects, rich in Orthoptera and Ooleoptera, containing 4000 

 species and 10,000 specimens, 60 species being scale insects on 

 125 dilCerent host plants; 1000 histologic slides; 50 species of al- 

 coholic snakes, lizards, etc.; skulls of alligator, turtle, porpoise, 

 cat, dog, etc.; mounted skeletons of monkey, sheep^ dog, cat, 

 horse, cow, squirrel, birds, turtle, fish, etc.; a large lot of animal 

 parasites in alcohol and microscopic specimens. 



Lepidoptera for exchange. 



Botany. 3000 species of spermophyta and ferns; 550 speci- 

 mens of fungi; seeds of native weeds. 



