34 DIRECTORY OF AMERICAN MUSEUMS 



WAR RELIC DEPARTMENT. 



This department maintains a museum, in charge of W. W. Fer- 

 guson, custodian. The collections include over 3000 articles of histori- 

 cal interest, housed at present in the state house, but soon to be 

 removed to a new building in course of erection in May, 1910. The nu- 

 cleus of the museum is a collection made by Cecil A. Deane, and trans- 

 ferred in 1895 to the state. Admission is free, and the attendance has 

 been estimated at 50,000 a year. 



ZOOLOGICAL PARK. 



The city maintains a zoological park, established in 1897, con- 

 taining 200 birds and 155 mammals. 



FORT COLLINS: 



STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. Museum. 



The collections, which are rich in local material, are in charge of 

 the heads of the several departments and comprise a small collection 

 in ethnology; 7000 botanical specimens, including 1000 species of 

 Colorado phanerogams and 300 species of Colorado fungi ; small working 

 collections of minerals and rocks, and about 1000 specimens of ores; 

 550 specimens in paleontology; and an extensive zoological collection, 

 including 2000 shells, 80,000 insects, 500 other invertebrates, 20 fishes, 

 50 batrachians, 75 reptiles, 1200 birds, and 125 mammals. 



GOLDEN: 



COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES. Mineralogical Museum. 



This museum is in charge of H. B. Patton, professor of geology 

 and mineralogy and, although used primarily for instruction, is open 

 free to the public. 



COLLECTIONS. Minerals: a synoptic collection of 370; a working 

 collection of 2i,ooo; a display collection of 1305; a supplementary 

 collection of 950; the Patton collection of 970; and a crystal collection 

 of 1800. Rocks: a synoptic collection of 1800; a working collection of 

 748; a United States geological survey educational series of 156; and 

 the Patton collection of 1700. Fossils: a display collection of 342; 

 and a miscellaneous collection of 1360. Many of the Colorado min- 

 erals are of special interest, more particularly the zeolites of Table 

 Mountain, Golden. 



The school also possesses a museum of applied chemistry, including 

 mounted specimens of raw materials, main products, by-products, 

 and waste products of the various branches of technical chemistry and 

 metallurgy, and a metallurgical collection of models illustrating the 

 best types of furnaces in this and other countries. 



