!66 DIRECTORY OF AMERICAN MUSEUMS 



FINANCIAL SUPPORT. The society is supported by biennial 

 appropriations of about $15,000 from the state legislature and an 

 income from memberships amounting to about $1100. The society 

 expends about $1200 a year for maintenance of the museum. 



BUILDING. The museum occupies 625 square feet of floor space 

 for exhibition in the library building of the state university. A new 

 building for the society is under construction. 



ADMINISTRATION. The archeologist has immediate charge of the 

 museum under the direction of the secretary of the society, who in 

 turn is responsible to the executive board. 



SCOPE. The maintenance of local collections by exploration and 

 research of the staff is the principal object of the museum. 



PUBLICATIONS. Museum reports are included in the publications 

 of the society, of which 13 volumes have been issued. 



ATTENDANCE. Open free to the public on week-days from 8 to 

 5. The number of visitors is about 8000 a year. 



NEBRASKA STATE MUSEUM. 



STAFF. Curator, Erwin H. B arbour; Assistant curator, Carrie 

 A. Barbour. Carpenters, janitors, engineers, electricians, etc., are sup- 

 plied by the University of Nebraska. 



COLLECTIONS. Large forestry, fiber, and grain collections; a 

 good working collection of minerals and rocks; large collections of 

 invertebrate carboniferous fossils, miocene vertebrates from the Bad 

 Lands, and plants from the Dakota group; zoological collections chiefly 

 from Nebraska but with some material from Bermuda and the Baha- 

 mas. 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. The museum has been developed by the 

 present curator from a very small beginning in 1891. Annual collect- 

 ing expeditions have been made possible through the generosity of 

 Hon. Charles H. Morrill. The collections were at first housed in two 

 rooms in Science Hall but increased to such an extent that the floors 

 weakened and the material was put in storage. The one completed 

 wing of a new fireproof building is now overcrowded and material to 

 fill the next wing is in storage. When completed the museum will 

 cover two or three acres on the campus of the University of Nebraska. 



FINANCIAL SUPPORT. Maintained by the regents of the state 

 university and by private subscriptions. 



BUILDING. The museum at present occupies 11,000 square feet 

 of floor space for exhibition, and 3500 for offices, workrooms, etc. in 

 a building erected in 1907-8 by the state at a cost of $55,000. 



