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a large well-lighted room in the main building of the college. It is in 

 charge of J. W. Adams, professor of geology, and includes about 300 

 arrowheads, axes, and other relics of American Indians, and 300 speci- 

 mens from cliff dwellings; about 35,000 fossils, mostly Silurian, 

 devonian, or carboniferous; 2000 shells, several hundred echinoderms, 

 200 Crustacea, about 800 bird eggs, etc. 



GOSHEN: 



ELKHART COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 



This society was organized in 1896 and occupies a room in the 

 county court house, where it maintains a historical museum, including 

 about 400 Indian stone implements; domestic and other implements 

 and articles used by early settlers; documents, photographs, and local 

 publications of early date relating to the county; a cabinet of curios 

 from the Philippine Islands; mastodon tusks and elk antlers from Elk- 

 hart County; a collection of military relics and records; etc. There 

 are no regular funds for the support of the museum, and the exhibi- 

 tion cases .have been provided by the county. 



The museum is open free to the public on week-days from 8 to 5 . 



HANOVER: 



HANOVER COLLEGE. 



No reply has been received from this institution, which is said by 

 Merrill to have a teaching collection of 500 geological specimens, 

 chiefly local. 



INDIANAPOLIS: 



ART ASSOCIATION OF INDIANAPOLIS. John Herron Art 

 Institute. 



The John Herron Art Institute comprises a fine arts museum and 

 a school, each having its own building on grounds at Sixteenth and 

 Pennsylvania Streets. It is conducted by the Art Association of 

 Indianapolis, to which funds were bequeathed for the purpose by 

 John Herron in 1896. These funds have since been increased by other 

 endowment. Additional income is derived from annual dues of $10 

 each from about 500 members and by an appropriation of about $9000 

 annually from the school board of Indianapolis. The institute is 

 administered by William Henry Fox, director, William Coughlen, 

 secretary of the art association, and Anna E. Turrell, curator of the 

 museum and school property. 



COLLECTIONS. The museum possesses a permanent collection of 

 about 80 paintings; some casts; and a collection of miscellaneous 



