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drawers that run in grooves screwed upon the inner side of the doors 

 of the cases. These doors open only far enough to make right angles 

 with the case, so that when drawn out the drawer serves as a ta))Ie. 



The museum contains between 400,000 and 500,000 specimens, and 

 is open all day on week days. The collections embrace anthropolog3^ 

 geolog}', geography, mineralogy, petrography', and historical ])aleon- 

 tology (illustration of the succession of the faunas and floras in the 

 history of the earth), with many models, casts, maps, photographs, 

 etc. Upon the ground floor are exhibits relating to the above-named 

 sciences, as well as to Mexican anticjuities. Upon the second floor are 

 the collections for study (for the most part in drawers), besides work- 



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rooms, a lil)rary, and lecture rooms. On the third floor are the col- 

 lections for study in anthropology, with instruments for measuring, 

 maps and graphic representations relating to the a})origines. with 

 collections from ^Mexico and Peru, from the pueblos of New ^Mexico, 

 the clitf-dwellers of Colorado, the Moki Indians of Arizona, the 

 Aleutes, and the northwestern coast of America. Japan, etc. 



The nniseum is managed b}'^ the professors of the University, with 

 a few assistants. 



II.\SKELL OKIEXTAL MUHF:UM. 



The Haskell Oriental Museum is dedicated by the donor to the 

 memory of her husband. It is a three-story building, costing $100,000, 

 and was opened in 1896. At the present time the second floor oidy is 

 devoted to the museum collections', which include a biblical exhibit; 



