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contains a general museum including natural history specimens and 

 articles of interest in connection with local and masonic history. 



COLLEGE SPRINGS: 

 AMITY COLLEGE. 



The college maintains in connection with the biological laboratory, 

 and in charge of the instructor in biology, collections including about 

 200 specimens of wood from Page County; 30 kinds of minerals and 

 150-200 kinds of rocks; 300 fossils; and about 200 zoological specimens. 

 This material is largely the result of local collections made by students, 

 with gifts from alumni and friends of the college. The museum oc- 

 cupies one room but there are no provisions for its care other than that 

 given by students. 



DAVENPORT: 



DAVENPORT ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. Museum. 



STAFF. Acting director, E. K. Putnam; Curator and acting 

 librarian, J. H. Paarmann; Assistant curator, Sarah G. F. Sheldon; 

 Taxidermist, John Paddock; i janitor. 



ANTHROPOLOGY. Archeology, native, 23,500=^ foreign, ioo; 

 Ethnology, native, 1400, foreign, 2oo. These collections include 

 the following items: 1300 specimens of ancient pottery from the 

 lower Mississippi Valley, 15 from the upper Mississippi Valley, and 

 1 6 from cliff dwellings; 14,700 chipped implements, 1200 pecked imple- 

 ments, 800 polished implements of stone from the upper Mississippi 

 Valley; 350 bone implements and 65 carved pipes from mounds of 

 Iowa and Illinois; 2000 shell beads, 50 miscellaneous articles of shell, 

 34 copper axes, 300 copper beads, and 36 other copper articles from 

 Iowa mounds; 2oo crania from mounds of Mississippi Valley; and 

 iooo miscellaneous mound relics. 



BOTANY. A fairly complete herbarium of local flowering plants 

 and a collection of log specimens illustrating native trees of Iowa. 



COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY. Collections illustrating the origin, 

 cultivation, manufacture, uses, etc., of common things. 



GEOLOGY. Minerals, on exhibition, n,ooo, in storage, 5ooo; 

 Rocks, 6oo; Dynamic geology, relief maps, models, etc., 3oo; 

 Economic geology, 3OO. 



HISTORY. 4oo specimens. 



PALEONTOLOGY. Invertebrates, 6ooo; Vertebrates, ioo; 

 Plants, 6ooo. 



