REPORT OF DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL GEOLOGY. 



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4,L'4G of tbese Lj,000 arc building or ornaniental stones, of wliicli 1,G58 

 are now on exliibition; 000 more are dressed and can be placed on exhi- 

 bition as soon as si)ac'e and oases are jtrovidi-d. The nniiibcr of speci- 

 mens in the duplicate series cannot be accurately estimated, but will 

 l)robably not vary far from 3,000, making a total of 18,000 specimens for 

 the whole collection. 



The following- list gives the collection of building and ornamental 

 stones in detail, the majority of the specimens being of sufficient size 

 to dress into 4-inch cubes, or at least to give u finished surface 4 inches 

 s(piare : 



UNITED STATES. | Oregon 6 



Peun.sylvaiiia 331 



Alabama l- 



Arkansas 9 



Arizona 6 



c alifornia 46 



Colorado 65 



Connecticnt 109 



Dakota 5 



Delaware o 



District of Colnmbia 3 



Florida 15 



Georgia 7 



Maho 2 



Illinois Ill 



Indiana 99 



Iowa 195 



Kausiis 192 



Kentncky 93 



Maine 127 



Massarbnsetts 226 



Maryland 109 



Michigan 30 



Minnesota 108 



Missonri 158 



Montana 9 



Nebraska 



New Hampshire 106 



New J ersey 133 



New Mexico 17 



New York 274 



Nfvada 8 



North Carolina 125 



Ohio 314 



Khode Island 



Tennessee , 



Texas 



Utah 



Vermont 



Virginia 



West Virginia 



Washington Territory 



Wisconsin 



Wyoming 



FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 



Bermuda 



Canada 



China 



Egypt 



France 



Germany 



Greece 



Ireland 



Italy 



Japan 



Mexico 



8 I New Brnnswick .. 

 New South Wales 



Portugal 



Russia 



Scotland 



Turkey 



42 

 127 



48 

 13 

 220 

 72 

 17 



4 

 89 



6 



15 



17 



1 



10 

 4 

 4 

 2 



1 



89 

 50 

 16 

 5 

 20 

 154 

 21 

 24 



Total 4, 246 



Of the collections now on exhibition the following may be noted as 

 of especial interest: 



Fourteen hundred specimens of building and ornamental stones of 

 the United States. These are nearly all in the form of 4-inch cubes, 

 prepared as already described. A part are, however, in foot cubes, and 

 a lew others of still larger size. 



