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MINNESOTA 



COLLEGEVILLE: 



ST. JOHN'S UNIVERSITY. 



The university maintains a museum for teaching purposes in 

 charge of Severin Gertken, curator, and James Hansen and Fridolin 

 Tembreull, assistants. The collections occupy 4576 square feet of 

 exhibition space on the second floor of the library building. There are 

 6 cases of ethnological specimens, representing the Minnesota Chip- 

 pewa Indians, the Dakota Sioux Indians, and the Alaska Indians. 

 The herbarium includes 1200 species; and the geological collection, 

 2500 specimens. In zoology there are 15,000 insects, including 600 

 species of beetles, and an equal number of butterflies and moths from 

 Minnesota ; and 400 mounted specimens of birds and mammals. There 

 are also small collections of shells, coins, and eggs. 



MINNEAPOLIS: 



MINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS. 



The society holds occasional exhibitions but maintains no per- 

 manent museum. 



MINNESOTA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. Museum. (Public 

 Library Building.) 



STAFF. Curator, John W. Franzen. 



ANTHROPOLOGY. Skulls, body and limb bones of prehistoric 

 peoples from burial mounds in Minnesota and adjoining states; 

 Indian implements, weapons, clothing, etc., from Minnesota; an exten- 

 sive and varied collection from the Philippines. 



ART. The following collections have recently been placed in the 

 museum by Mr. T. B. Walker: A series of the finest 8th century 

 Persian porcelains; Greek vases and Tanagran sculptured figures of 

 the 6th to the 2nd century B. c.; ancient Greek and Assyrian glass- 

 ware; Chinese idols and temple gods; 9 bas-reliefs and 4 marble heads 

 from Palmyra; 3 stone tablets with cuneiform inscriptions from the 

 palaces of Ashur-nazir-pal, king of Assyria; 40 Chinese bronze vases 

 of the 1 2th to the i8th century; a marble statue of Hercules from 

 Palmyra; etc. 



BOTANY. A herbarium of several thousand flowering plants of 

 Minnesota ; a collection of Philippine woods. 



GEOLOGY. The Walker collection of ornamental stones, said to be 

 the best of its kind in the West; a general geological collection repre- 

 senting the rocks and minerals of Minnesota and adjacent states, and 

 the province of Ontario. 



