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LAFAYETTE: 



PURDUE UNIVERSITY. 



The university maintains collections for teaching purposes in 

 connection with its scientific departments as follows: Anthropology, 

 1000 specimens. Botany, 5000 phanerogams, 2000 cryptogams, 500 

 specimens of seeds and economic products. Engineering, a railway 

 museum containing a number of historic locomotives and other mate- 

 rial illustrating railway development in America. Geology and paleon- 

 tology, 1000 minerals and 4000 fossils. Zoology, 13,000 specimens, 

 including the Scheuch and other collections comprising about 6000 

 mollusks; the Scheuch collection of 6000 coleoptera; 500 fishes; the 

 A. W. Butler collection of reptiles and batrachians of Indiana; and an 

 almost complete series of birds and mammals of Indiana, numbering 

 500 specimens. 



MARION: 



GRANT COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 



The secretary reports that the society maintains a museum in 

 connection with the library, but no further information has been 

 received. 



NEWCASTLE: 



HENRY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 



This society was organized in 1887. In 1901 it acquired its pres- 

 ent building, in which about 1000 square feet of floor space is devoted 

 to a museum and a historical library. The scope of the museum 

 includes the aboriginal life, geology and mineralogy, natural history, 

 history, and industries of Henry County and vicinity. The library at 

 present contains 500-800 volumes. 



NOBLESVILLE: 



HAMILTON COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION. 



This association maintains a small collection of historical relics, 

 etc., in a room in the county court house. The expense of maintaining 

 the collections up to $50 per annum is borne by the county. 



NOTRE DAME: 



NOTRE DAME UNIVERSITY. 



The university states that museum collections are maintained 

 but has not replied to repeated requests for further information. 



