wo ^BW YORK STATEI MUSEUM 



in the state; 7000 labeled specimens of Musci, including all the 

 more important American forms; large collections of fleshy and 

 parasitic fungi; a few exsiccatae of American algae and lichens; 

 a small series of American woods; a small series of Brazilian 

 woods; Hough's sections of American woods, and a number of 

 papier-mach(§ models illustrating the organs and structure 

 of flowering plants. 



Wisconsin academy of sciences, arts and letters, Madison. Ernest 

 B. Skinner, secretary. 



This academy has no natural history collections except a few 

 fossils which are included in the collections of the Universiity of 

 Wisconsin. 



WYOMING 



University of Wyoming museum, Laramie. Wilbur C. Knight, 

 curator. 



Piilei/iitology. 3000 si>ecimens: good collection of the inverte- 

 brates from the Jurassic and Cretaceous formations of the 

 Rocky Mountains of the United States; one of the largest col- 

 lections of Jurassic dinosaurs from American localities in the 

 world and the largest collection of Western Jurassic swimming 

 saurians known. This collection contains type material as fol- 

 lows : Ceratodus americanus and robustus. 

 M e g a 1 n e u s a u r u s rex, (type genus and species) ; C i m o - 

 liosaurus laramiensis; Plesiosaurus shir- 

 ley e n s i s and Cycadella, a new genus of fossil cycad 

 and 21 species. There is a lot of material in the Jurassic col- 

 lection awaiting description. Duplicates of vertebrates and 

 invertebrates offered for exchange.. 



Mineralogy. 700 specimens. Duplicates of Wyoming minerals 

 for exchange. 



Economiic geology aiid Uthology. 1700 specimens the most of 

 which relate to the formations of the Rocky Mountains. Dupli 

 cates of Wyoming rocks for exchange. 



Zoology. 850 specimens; in this collection there are about 550 

 bird skins representing the fauna of Wyoming. 



Botany. The Rocky Mountain herbarium, Aven Nelson, cura- 

 tor, contains 40,000 specimens and the greatest number of 



