20 DIRECTORY OF AMERICAN MUSEUMS 



ADMINISTRATION. By a curator, responsible to the board of trus- 

 tees of the Oakland Free Library. 



SCOPE. The primary object of the museum is the instruction of 

 the general public. 



ATTENDANCE. Open free to the public daily. 



PIEDMONT ART GALLERY. 



This is a private gallery owned by Mr. Frank C. Havens, and 

 consists of about 350 pictures, principally modern, representing 

 various European and American schools. It consists of three buildings, 

 each 1 20 feet long, divided into nine rooms of various sizes. The 

 gallery is in charge of Richard L. Partington, curator, and is open to 

 the public from 10 to 4 at a nominal fee of 10 cents. Its object is ex- 

 clusively educational. 



PACIFIC GROVE: 



PACIFIC GROVE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION. 



STAFF. Curator, Laura Duncan; Botanist, M. E. B. Norton; 

 Librarian, Jeanette Murray. 



BOTANY. A herbarium of 924 cryptogams, including 500 North 

 American and foreign ferns, and 424 algae of Monterey Bay; 2478 

 phanerogams, of which 478 local and Californian specimens are 

 exhibited, while 500 local, and 1500 eastern, foreign, and Philippine 

 forms are in storage. A small forestry collection includes 50 cones 

 and a large number of seeds. 



GEOLOGY AND PALEONTOLOGY. About 200 minerals, and 20 in- 

 vertebrate fossils. 



ZOOLOGY. Shells, on exhibition, 235 local species and 385 Philip- 

 pine specimens, in storage, 3000 ; Insects, 2oo ; Other invertebrates, 

 100 (local) ; Fishes, 54 mounted and 26 in alcohol; Reptiles, 15 mounted 

 and 20 in alcohol; Birds, 62 mounted and 447 skins; Mammals, 45; 

 Bird eggs, 600. 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. The museum was established in 1883 by the 

 Chautauqua Assembly in connection with class work in zoology. The 

 Pacific Grove Museum Association was organized in 1899, and incorpo- 

 rated in 1900 with 35 charter members. At this time a collection of 

 i ico specimens was purchased, partly representing the life of Monterey 

 Bay; later were purchased a collection of East Indian birds and one of 

 local bird eggs. All other collections have been added by donation. 



FINANCIAL SUPPORT. The museum had the following sources of 

 income in 1909: from memberships, $436; from donations, $31; from 

 proceeds of entertainments and festivals, $196. 



