70 DIRECTORY OF AMERICAN MUSEUMS 



ATTENDANCE. Open free to the public, upon application to the 

 librarian, on week-days from 8 to 12 and 2 to 6, except Monday morn- 

 ing and Saturday afternoon. 



Northwestern University also has a small collection of ceramics 

 and art in charge of the University Guild; and museum collections in 

 connection with the Medical School, the School of Pharmacy, and the 

 Dental School, in Chicago. 



SWEDISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA. (Orrington 

 Avenue and Lincoln Street.) 



The society has a small historical collection as the nucleus of a 

 museum. 



GALESBURG: 



KNOX COLLEGE. Hurd Museum. 



STAFF. Curator, H. V. Neal, who is also professor of biology. 



ANTHROPOLOGY. Archeology, foreign, 200; Ethnology, foreign, 

 250. 



ART. Sculpture, 6; Prints and engravings, 1500; Oil paintings, 6. 

 . BOTANY. A herbarium containing 5000 phanerogams and 500 

 cryptogams. 



GEOLOGY. Minerals, 7000; Rocks, 3000. 



PALEONTOLOGY. Invertebrates, 4000; Vertebrates, 25; Plants, 

 300. 



ZOOLOGY. Shells, 6000; Insects, 5000; Other invertebrates, 1000; 

 Fishes, 200; Batrachians, 50; Reptiles, 25; Birds, 600; Mammals, 100. 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. The Hurd Museum was begun as a private 

 collection by Albert S. Hurd, professor of natural science in Knox 

 College, and was bequeathed to the college at his death. 



FINANCIAL SUPPORT. Occasional gifts from friends of the college. 



BUILDING. The museum occupies a room in the main college 

 building. 



ADMINISTRATION. By a curator, responsible to the trustees of 

 the college. 



SCOPE. Used chiefly for teaching purposes. 



ATTENDANCE. Open occasionally to the public. 



JOLIET: 



JOLIET TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL. 



The school maintains a natural history museum rich in local 

 material, especially fungi, cretaceous and other fossils, land shells, seeds 

 and fruits. The collections are in charge of Willard N. Clute, curator 



