Museums of the Pacific Coast 



Location, Mason and California streets; reached 

 by California street car line. 



Robert Howe Fletcher, director. 



California State Mining Bureau. Located on 

 the third fxoor of the Ferry Building. Is under 

 the direction of the State Mineralogist and en- 

 deavors to promote the interests of the mineral 

 industry in California. This is done through its 

 bureau of information, its publications, library and 

 reading room, laboratory, statistical department, 

 and museum. The museum contains some 20,000 

 mineral specimens attractively arranged and repre- 

 senting fully the varied mineralogical resources of 

 the State. The museum is open to the public. 



R. P. McLaughlin, curator. 



In Oakland and Berkeley. — University of Cali- 

 fornia, Berkeley. Several departments maintain 

 extensive collections of specimens pertaining to 

 their fields. These have been gathered with refer- 

 ence to their value in research and class work. The 

 more notable of these department collections are: 

 The paleontological, consisting of more than 150,000 

 invertebrate fossils, with several hundred types, 

 15,000 vertebrate fossils, with more than 100 types, 

 and 3000 plant fossils, with about fifty types; the 

 botanical, containing an herbarium of more than 

 135,000 sheets; a geological, of rocks, minerals, and 

 slides, many of them of rare value; zoological, con- 

 sisting of specimens of invertebrate animals, plank- 

 ton, etc.; and a large archaeological collection 

 where may be found casts of famous statuary. 



California Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. 

 Located in a corrugated iron building immediately 

 north of football field, campus of the University 

 of California, Berkeley. An institution devoted to 

 the study of problems in natural history, geographic 

 distribution, and speciation of the higher verte- 

 brates of the western coast of North America, with 

 special reference to California. 



There are three notable exhibition groups — one 

 of the Steller sea lion, one of the California sea 

 lion and one of the Kenai mountain sheep. The 

 major part of the collection is solely of a research 

 character. There are catalogued to date 53,186 

 specimens, distributed as follows: Birds' nests and 

 eggs, 1384; reptiles and amphibians, 5558; mam- 

 mals, 21,304; birds, 24,940. Adding to the value of 

 these, are series of photographs, maps, and field 

 note-books. 



Joseph Grinnell, director. 



Oakland Public Museum. Maintained by the city 

 of Oakland. Contains exhibits of natural history, 

 ethnology, American history and antiquities. 



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