BUFFALO SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCES 93 



TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY. 



The university maintains a museum in charge of Alfred Fair- 

 hurst and Charles Albert Schull, occupying about 2000 square feet of 

 floor space in the new science building completed in 1908. The collec- 

 tions include 100 articles from Japan, consisting of images, household 

 utensils, etc.; 1000 stone implements from the United States; 50 war 

 clubs, bows and arrows, etc., from the islands of the Pacific; 175 Chin- 

 ese coins; 200 rocks; 500 minerals; 600 trays of fossils; 200 species of 

 recent shells; 50 corals; 250 bottles of alcoholic material; 900 mounted 

 birds and 200 skins; 75 of the smaller mammals; etc. Many of the 

 birds were collected by the United States exploring expedition in the 

 Southwest, Mexico, Central and South America. A valuable collec- 

 tion of Australian birds was presented by Mr. O. A. Carr. The museum 

 is open to students and to the public five days in each week during the 

 college year. 



LOUISVILLE: 



LOUISVILLE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY. 



This library was organized in 1902 and opened to the public in 

 1905. Into it was merged the Polytechnic Society of Kentucky, 

 organized in 1876, which included an art collection, comprising 26 

 fine oil paintings and many others of minor importance, valued at 

 $15,000, and 4 statues, valued at $25,000; and a natural history col- 

 lection, consisting of minerals, shells, ferns, birds, etc. The pictures 

 and statuary are exhibited in the library rooms and corridors. The 

 natural history material fills a room 38 x 60 feot-on the ground floor. 

 The museum is open free to the public on week-days from 2 to 5 and 

 on Saturday mornings from 9 to 12. On Sundays it is open from 2 to 

 6. The attendance since its opening on October 18, 1909, has aver- 

 aged 92 per day. 



It is expected that the Jefferson Institute of Arts and Sciences, 

 organized in 1909, will ultimately secure a separate building, in which 

 case the library will probably turn its museum material over to the 

 institute. 



LOUISIANA 



BATON ROUGE: 



LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY. 



The university maintains teaching collections in agriculture, 

 botany, geology, history, and zoology, in charge of the professors of 

 these departments. 



