NATURAL HISTORY MUSKUMS 193 



NOVA SCOTIA 



Acadia college museum, ^\■()lfvill(^ Ernest Hnycork in cliargo. 



Paleontology. 500 to (JOO specimens: n working collection repre- 

 senting]: all j]:eologic horizons, but richest in Carboniferons and 

 Devonian forms; a cabinet collection put up in Enji^land, repre- 

 sentinfj^ in a manner the whole ran.uc of I^^nj^lish <^eoloj::y, jind a 

 (ollection of corals from Ontario, and KSilurian forms from 

 Gaspe and Anticosti. 



Milter alof/ J/. Several hundred specimens: a colleclion of several 

 hundred from Ottawa; a large collection purchased of Ward & 

 Howell ; and a series of the zeolites from the trap rocks of Nova 

 Scotia. 



Historic geology and lithology. Series of specimens illustrating 

 the rocks of New York state and typical rocks from all parts of 

 the world, purchased of Ward & Howell; and a representative 

 series of Canadian rocks. 



Economic geology. 300 specimens: ores purchased of Ward & 

 Howell; and collections of gold-bearing quartz, antimony sulfid, 

 manganese dioxid and other ores of Nova Scotia. 



Zoology. A few mammals of Nova Scotia; a small collection 

 of birds; a large collection of unios and specimens of shells of 

 nearly all the marine orders. 



Botany. A herbarium containing many species of plants of 

 Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, prepared by G. IT. Hay, of 

 St John, New^ Brunswick. 



Ethnology. Indian arrowheads and axes; bows aud arrows 

 from the Canadian northwest, and from India; weapons and 

 domestic utensils from India and Burmah, and numerous arti- 

 cles from all parts of the world, specially from Hudson bay 

 region and from China and Japan. 



This museum is considered the most instructive and attractive 

 in Nova Scotia. 



Dalhousie college, Halifax. No report. 



King's college, Windsor. Prof. Vroom, acting curator. 



Paleontology. W. B. Almon collections, a few fossils from 

 Scotland; Silurian and Devonian fossils from Arisaig, N. S.; a 

 small collection of Australian fossils and Silurian and Devonian 



