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PALEONTOLOGY. Invertebrates, on exhibition, 400, in storage, 

 100; Vertebrates, on exhibition, ioo,in storage, 1000, types and figured 

 specimens, 2 ; Plants, on exhibition, 20, in storage, 10. 



ZOOLOGY. Shells, 600; Insects, 50; Other invertebrates, 250; 

 Fishes, 50; Batrachians, 25; Reptiles, 50; Birds, 400; Mammals, 20; 

 Microscopic material, 4oc specimens. 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. The museum was begun in 1907 by Mr. 

 Gilbert, and is designed to aid the schools of the city in illustrating 

 class work. 



FINANCIAL SUPPORT. By a direct city appropriation of $200 

 annually, in addition to $200 in fixtures, and by private contributions. 



BUILDING. The museum occupies about 1400 square feet of 

 floor space in the science hall of the Los Angeles High School. A two- 

 story building 50 x IO feet in Agricultural Park has recently been 

 secured for the exhibition of part of the museum material. 



SCOPE. Public school teaching, supplemented by local explora- 

 tion. 



ATTENDANCE. Open free to the public. 



CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. 



A part of the collection of the Zoological Station of Avalon, Santa 

 Catalina Island, representing the archeology of the Channel Islands 

 of California is on exhibition here. 



SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



The academy has a collection of local pleistocene fossils and other 

 material with which it proposes to establish a museum in the Art 

 Building in Agricultural Park, where a floor space of 15,000 square 

 feet has been set apart for this purpose. 



THE SOUTHWEST MUSEUM. 



STAFF. Founder emeritus, Chas. F. Lummis; Curator, Hector 

 Alliot. 



COLLECTIONS. The most perfect collection extant of Southern 

 California archeology; important archeological collections from 

 Arizona, New Mexico, Mexico, Peru, and Bolivia; all relics of the 

 Franciscan missionaries and the missions in Southern California, 

 including the mission records of Los Angeles ; personal relics of John 

 C. Fremont and Jessie Benton Fremont, including the flag which he 

 raised on the' crest of the Rocky Mountains in 1842; the Lummis 

 collections of about 5000 items from New Mexico, Mexico, Arizona, 

 Bolivia, and Peru. 



