Museums of the Pacific Coast 



In Oregon. — Oregon Agricultural College. Lo- 

 cated at Corvallis. Maintains exhibition and re- 

 search collections in connection with the science 

 departments. The herbarium contains 10,000 pha- 

 nerogams and vascular cryptogams and 1500 fungi. 

 In zoology there are collections of birds, mammals, 

 fossils, and miscellaneous specimens. 



Geo. F. Sykes, in charge of zoological museum. 



University of Oregon. Located at Eugene. Has 

 the Condon collection of vertebrate fossils from the 

 John Day beds, a mineralogical collection of about 

 4000 specimens, and considerable collections in 

 botany and ethnology. 



Portland City Free Museum. In City Hall, be- 

 tween Fourth, Fifth, Madison and Jefferson streets, 

 Portland. Started in 1903; general in character, 

 containing much valuable material not catalogued. 



C. F. Wiegand, curator. 



State Fish and Game Commission. Is accumu- 

 lating collections of the vertebrate animals of Ore- 

 gon. Located at Reed College, Portland. 



William L. Finley, in charge. 



In Washington. — State College of Washington, 

 Pullman. The general museum contains collections 

 of mounted birds, mammals, fishes, etc. Other 

 scientific collections are maintained by the depart- 

 ments of entomologj^ (200,000 specimens), botany 

 (about 85,000 herbarium sheets), geology and agri- 

 culture. 



The State University. Located at Seattle. Con- 

 tains the State Museum, in which are valuable col- 

 lections as follows: Anthropology, 27,000 speci- 

 mens; botany, 13,000; minerals, several thousand; 

 paleontology, 12,000; shells, 14,000; insects, 31,000; 

 other invertebrates, 11,000; fishes, 1500; amphibians 

 and reptiles, 5000; birds, 1000. 



In Idaho. — University of Idaho. Located in 

 Moscow. The university museum was destroyed by 

 fire in 1906, with the exception of the mineral 

 collections. There are collections of value in the 

 different departments of the university. 



In Utah. — Deseret Museum. Located in Salt 

 Lake City. Contains important collections as fol- 

 lows: Anthropology; archaeology, native, 500; 

 foreign, 50; ethnology, native lOO; foreign, 500. 

 There is a large collection of desiccated human re- 

 mains and artifacts from the cliff dwellings of 

 Utah. Geology, several hundred specimens, in- 

 cluding a large collection of geodes from Wayne 

 County; also more than 4000 fossils. Zoology, 

 shells, 2500; insects, 1000; many other invertebrates 

 and some 800 vertebrates. 



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