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and head of the department of biology, and Louise M. Hird, assistant, 

 and occupy about 1500 square feet of floor space for exhibition in the 

 school building. For lack of space only about half of the collections are 

 on view at any one time, but the exhibits are changed frequently. The 

 museum is intended primarily for the use of pupils in the school but 

 is open free to the public during school days. 



LAKE FOREST: 



LAKE FOREST COLLEGE. 



The college possesses a very good collection of local birds, and 

 small collections in geology, including a good set of the Guelph group 

 of Niagara fossils from Port Byron, Illinois, and a collection of the 

 Mazon Creek, Illinois, ferns. 



LINCOLN: 



JAMES MILLIKEN UNIVERSITY LINCOLN COLLEGE. 



The college has a museum not exceeding 500 or 600 specimens. 



NAPERVILLE: 



NORTHWESTERN COLLEGE. 



The college has general collections in charge of L. M. Umbach, 

 curator, and including anthropology, geology, paleontology, and 

 zoology, with especially extensive collections in botany, including a 

 herbarium of about 35,000 plants, chiefly American. The museum 

 occupies about 2800 square feet of floor space on the upper floor of the 

 main college building and is supported from the general funds of the 

 college. It is open free to the public on Fridays but no statistics of 

 attendance are available. 



PEORIA: 



ZOOLOGICAL PARK. 



This park, occupying i acre, was established in 1900 and contains 

 2 reptiles and 28 mammals. 



ROCK ISLAND: 



AUGUSTANA COLLEGE. Museum. 



The museum comprises several distinct collections as follows, 

 About 5000 specimens in zoology, collected chiefly by Dr. Josua Lindahl: 

 a notable feature being a fairly complete collection of land and fresh- 

 water shells from Sweden; a herbarium of over 2000 specimens, the 

 nucleus being formed by a collection of plants from Sweden, donated 



