86 DIRECTORY OF AMERICAN MUSEUMS 



STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA. 



The university maintains teaching collections, as follows: 



ANTHROPOLOGY. About 2000 specimens, the greater number from 

 the Philippines, also collections representing the mound builders, 

 North American Indians, Esquimaux, and Hawaiian Islands. 



BOTANY. A herbarium of about 175,000 specimens, in charge of 

 Thomas H. McBride, professor of botany, and B. Schimick, curator 

 of the herbarium and assistant professor of botany. 



GEOLOGY AND PALEONTOLOGY. 30,000 specimens including good 

 local collections. 



ZOOLOGY. Shells, on exhibition, noo sets, in storage, 46 sets; 

 Insects, on exhibition, 500 boxes, in storage, i2,5oo, including several 

 types and co-types; Other invertebrates, on exhibition, 87 5, in storage, 

 28,ooo, including about 300 types and co-types; Fishes, on exhibi- 

 tion, 3 skulls, in storage, 7ooo; Batrachians, on exhibition, i, in 

 storage, 50; Reptiles, on exhibition, 22, in storage, 5oo; Birds, on 

 exhibition, 1030, in storage, 10,550; Mammals, on exhibition, 345, in 

 storage, 47 5 . There are 4 large and 6 small groups of animals exhibited 

 in natural surroundings. The collections in anthropology and zoology 

 constitute the museum of natural history, with the following staff: 

 Curator, C. C. Nutting; Assistant curator, H. F. Wickham; Taxider- 

 mist, Homer R. Dill; Assistant, Dayton Stoner; 4 janitors, engineer, 

 etc. The museum occupies 28,000 square feet of floor space for exhibi- 

 tion and storage, and is open free to the public on week-days from 8 

 to 6, and on two evenings in each week until 10. 



FINANCIAL SUPPORT. The museum collections are supported by 

 the funds of the university through the departments to which they are 

 related. The natural history museum receives about $2000 annually 

 for taxidermy, etc. 



MADRID: 



MADRID HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 



This society maintains a collection of local historical relics 

 occupying 350 square feet of floor space. There is also a historical 

 library of about 200 volumes, with many historic papers and autographs. 



WAVERLY: 



WARTBURG TEACHERS SEMINARY. 



The seminary maintains teaching collections including plaster 

 casts, microscopic preparations, skeletons, apparatus, etc.; and a 

 natural history museum of about 12,000 specimens, including miner- 



