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GREELEY: 



STATE NORMAL SCHOOL. 



The school has undertaken the organization of museums for 

 teaching purposes in connection with its several departments of 

 study. A bulletin describing the collections was issued in May, 



1908. 



CONNECTICUT 



HARTFORD : 



CONNECTICUT HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 



The secretary and librarian reports that the society maintains a 

 small museum, of which he is the custodian, but no further information 

 regarding the collections has been received. 



THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY. (Broad St.) 



The seminary is the custodian of the large collection of ethno- 

 graphical specimens collected by missionaries of the American Board of 

 Commissioners for Foreign Missions, Boston, with which are included 

 similar articles belonging to the seminary itself. It also possesses the 

 Paton Palestinian ethnological collection; and has a full set of lan- 

 tern slides illustrating the archeology, geography, and ethnology of 

 Palestine. 



TRINITY COLLEGE. Museum. 



The collections include a fair representation of the minerals; the 

 Ward collections of rocks; rocks of the New York series, and of the 

 stratigraphical series; a local herbarium; a few cases of Indian and other 

 relics; Ward's collection of fossils and casts of fossils; a fair representa- 

 tion of vertebrates, including some good mammalian skeletons; small 

 local collections of insects, the fauna of Long Island Sound, Blaschka 

 models of Hydrozoa, and a large collection of unidentified shells. 

 These collections are in charge of the professor of natural history, 

 and though used primarily for college purposes, are open to visitors. 



WADSWORTH ATHENEUM. 



STAFF. Chief curator, Frank Butler Gay; Curators, John H> 

 Sage (natural history), Henry D. Miller (mineralogy), Albert Hastings 

 Pitkin (ceramics). 



COLLECTIONS. The art collections include paintings, ceramics, 

 firearms, statuary, etc. Among the artists represented are Lawrence, 

 Gainsborough, Raeburn, Morland, Constable, Ostade, Heernskerk, 

 Van der Neer, Weenix, Van der Heist, Corot, Troyon, Jacque Lhermitte, 

 Pasini, Isabey, Clays, Mesdag, Dupre, Copley, Trumbull, Stewart, 



