j^O DIRECTORY OF AMERICAN MUSEUMS 



relief maps, globes, models, etc.; about 1800 invertebrate fossils on 

 exhibition, with especially good collections of trilobites, brachiopods, 

 and cretaceous cephalopods, and about 500 specimens in storage. 

 These collections are open free to the public daily. 



The department of zoology maintains for teaching purposes a 

 synoptic collection of about 3000 invertebrates, a series of 400 skeletal 

 parts and dissections, and newly started biological and anthropo- 

 logical collections of about 150 specimens each. 



The department of botany has small teaching collections only. 



SMITH COLLEGE. Hillyer Art Gallery. 



The Hillyer Art Gallery was built by Mr. Winthrop Hillyer of 

 Northampton, who left a fund of $50,000, of which the income is 

 spent on the collections or in whatever way may increase the help- 

 fulness of the gallery or of the art department of the college. A supple- 

 mentary sum of $15,000 from Mr. Hillyer 's estate will ultimately be 

 received and will be spent on an addition to the exhibition rooms. A 

 student of the college has given money to build a large lecture room, 

 reading room, and offices in connection with the present building and 

 upon the completion of this addition it is expected that the books on 

 art subjects, to the number of about 500 volumes now in the general 

 library of the college, may be transferred to the reading room. The 

 present building affords 8072 square feet of floor space for exhibition. 

 The collections comprise 105 paintings almost wholly by American 

 artists; a series of casts; 145 framed Arundel prints; about 200 photo- 

 graphs 14 x 18 inches, and about 1200 smaller ones; and about 3000 

 lantern slides. The gallery is in charge of the staff of the art depart- 

 ment of the college, with the assistance of 5 custodians, and is open 

 free to students of the college on week-days from 9 to i and from 2 to 

 4. To the public an admission fee of 25 cents is charged except on 

 Wednesday and Saturday afternoons, when admission is free. 



PEABODY: 



PEABODY HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 



This society was organized in 1896, and occupies two rooms in the 

 Warren National Bank building in Peabody Square, where it main- 

 tains a museum comprising about 3700 articles and books of local 

 historical interest. There are special collections of local pottery. 

 The society has also copied every gravestone inscription and Bible 

 record found in the town. The town of Peabody was known as South 

 Danvers from 1855 to 1868, having been separated from the town of 



