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1 1 and 4. The proceeds from the admission fees of 50 cents are received 

 by the Poor Association of Baltimore, following the custom of the 

 elder Mr. Walters, who adopted it in 1873. 



THE WOMAN'S COLLEGE OF BALTIMORE. Museum. 



STAFF. Director, Arthur Barneveld Bibbins. 



ANTHROPOLOGY. Uncivilized peoples: Archeology and ethnol- 

 ogy, native, 2o,ooo, foreign, 2ooo. Civilized peoples, ancient, 

 500, modern, 50. 



ART. Sculpture, 1 2 ; Prints and engravings, iooo ; Oil paintings, 

 10 ; Water colors, 36; Ceramics, 25; Textiles, 12; Lantern slides, 400. 



ASTRONOMY. $o lantern slides and i small telescope. 



BOTANY. Cryptogams, 2ooo; Phanerogams, 8ooo". 



COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY. Oil, iron, tin, copper, zinc, and phos- 

 phates, yooi. 



GEOGRAPHY. Lantern slides and stereographs, 5oo. 



GEOLOGY. Minerals, 2o,ooo; Rocks, iooo; Dynamic and 

 structural geology, relief maps, models, etc., 5oo; Microscopic 

 slides, 35oo. 



HISTORY. American, ioo, foreign, 50. 



PALEONTOLOGY. Invertebrates, on exhibition, iooo, in storage, 

 5o; Vertebrates, on exhibition, 12, types and figured specimens, 2 

 (miocene whale skulls); Plants, on exhibition, 25o, in storage, 5oo, 

 types and figured specimens, 7 (cycads). This department includes 

 extensive collections from the Potomac group, comprising more than 

 100 silicified cycad and palm trunks from Maryland. 



ZOOLOGY. Shells, 500; Other invertebrates, 100; Fishes, 12; 

 Reptiles, 2; Birds and eggs, 2000; Mammals, 10. 



OTHER COLLECTIONS. Coins and medals, 25oo; Babylonian 

 tablets, ancient and modern, 24; "Tyndall Iceland Spars" and 

 Foucault prisms valued at several thousand dollars. President- 

 emeritus Goucher also has, in his adjoining residence, a select collection 

 of rare books, prints, ethnologic and mineralogic material, gems, etc., 

 which he considers part of the college collections. 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. The museum was established about 1893, 

 the first accession being a collection of 250 minerals from the late 

 John W. Lee of Baltimore. Most of the subsequent accessions have 

 come as gifts or by purchase by friends of the college. The number of 

 objects exceeds 100,000. 



FINANCIAL SUPPORT. The museum receives occasional college 

 appropriations. The director serves without salary, in connection 

 with his duties as head of the department of geology. 



