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Indies and Alaska; casts from Europe and the Ohio mounds; pottery 

 from the cliff dwellers of New Mexico and Arizona; the Daniel DePue 

 collection chiefly from Washtenaw County, Michigan ; a fine collection 

 of flint instruments from Denmark; and an extensive collection of Peru- 

 vian burial pottery secured by the Beal-Steere expedition. There is 

 also the Frederick Stearns collection of 1400 musical instruments 

 representing nearly all types of all nations and ages, collected with 

 reference to its educational value as illustrating the evolution of modern 

 types; and the Chinese exhibit of the New Orleans cotton exposition 

 illustrating the culture and manufacture of cotton and its use in gar- 

 ments,, native-made household furniture, and house and garden pot- 

 tery. 



BOTANY. 100,000 specimens representing 5000 species and in- 

 cluding large series of Michigan plants collected by the public surveys; 

 the Houghton, Sager, Ames. Harrington, Beal-Steere, Adams- Jewett, 

 and the Garrigues herbaria; Holden's and Setchell's Phycotheca 

 Boreali- Americana; Briosi and Cavara's parasitic fungi; Seymour and 

 Earle's economic fungi; the continuation of Ellis's North American 

 fungi and large additions to the cryptogamic flora of Michigan. 



GEOLOGY. Minerals, 6000, including the Lederer collection of 

 2500 specimens, principally European; rich series of Michigan minerals, 

 including all varieties of copper ores and associated minerals from the 

 Lake Superior region. Also an economic collection, including a series 

 of foreign and domestic building stones from the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion; a series illustrating the metalliferous region of the upper peninsula 

 of Michigan; 150 specimens of ores and rocks, 39 of copper ore and 

 associated rocks from the Wolverine copper mine, 7 of native copper 

 from the Calumet and Hecla mines, 25 of asphaltum and petroleum, 

 and samples of brine and salt from Percy's salt well in Mason County. 

 There is a good collection in dynamic geology and a series of relief 

 maps, models, and lantern slides. 



PALEONTOLOGY. g5,ooo specimens, nearly all invertebrates, 

 including a large series from the geological survey of the state, of 

 which more than 100 are type specimens; the White collection of 1018 

 catalog entries; the Rominger collection of 5000 species, including 

 types of all the paleozoic corals described by Dr. Rominger in the third 

 volume of the geologic report of Michigan^ and many other series. 



ZOOLOGY. Shells, on exhibition, 13,000, in storage, 5o,ooo; 

 Insects, on exhibition, 500, in storage. 5o,ooo, co-types, 9; Other 

 invertebrates, on exhibition, 500, in storage, 2ooo ; Fishes, in storage, 

 6864; Batrachians, in storage, 1345; Reptiles, on exhibition, 21, in 



