NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMS 197 



New Hebrides, Paraguay and Africa. 300 busts of European 

 and United^ States scholars and celebrities. 2000 archeologicai 

 specimens, photographs, paintings, etc. illustrative of people, 

 mainly of Ontario, Mexico. Southeastern United States, Costa 

 Eica and other countries are represented. 



Queen's college and university museum, Kingston. James 

 Fowler in charge. 



Paleontology. 5000 specimens of general distribution. 



Minei^alogij. 3600 specimens from various sources. 



Historic geology. The Rev. Andrew Bell collection of 1000 speci- 

 mens illustrating a north and south stratigraphic section across 

 the province from Lake Erie and a series of oOO specimens illus- 

 trating a stratigraphic section across the Ottawa river. 



Lithology. An extensive collection which together with other 

 collections in this department, is stored in the school of mining 

 and agriculture in connection with the university. 



Zoology. 3146 specimens: 26 mounted mammals; 130 mounted 

 birds; 40 specimens of fishes; 200 alcoholic preparations and 150 

 dried specimens of invertebrates; small collections of reptiles and 

 of insects_, and 2600 mollusiks. 



Botany. 9450 mounted sheets: illustrating 1200 genera and 

 3650 species; a private herbarium of 14,731 sheets illustrating 

 2157 genera and 8650 species. Several thousand duplicates for 

 exchange. 



Ethnology. 500 specimens: a collection of Indian relics; a few 

 hundred articles from China, Japan, the Pacific islands, Turkey, 

 India and other countries. 



University of Toronto, Toronto, geological and mixeralog- 

 ICAL MUSEUM. A. P. Colomau, professor of geology, curator; T. L. 

 Walker, professor of mineralogy. 



Paleontology. General collection for teaching purposes, 10,800 

 specimens. Pleistocene 2500 specimens, 227 species; the Towns- 

 end collection, 6400 specimens, 820 species. There is in addition 

 a collection of fossils in the biological museum to illustrate 

 systematic geology. 



Mineralogy. 7125 specimens: Ferrier collection, 3700 speci- 

 mens; general collection, 1400 specimens; students working col- 



