172 DIRECTORY OF AMERICAN MUSEUMS 



PRINCETON: 



PRINCETON UNIVERSITY. Museum. 



STAFF. Executive committee, William Libbey (chairman)) 

 Gilbert Van Ingen (secretary), C. E. W. McClure, W. M. Rankin, 

 A. H. Phillips. Department of geology: Curators, -William Libbey 

 (director of E. M. Museum of Geology and Archaeology), Marcus S. 

 Farr (vertebrate paleontology), Gilbert Van Ingen (invertebrate 

 paleontology), W. J. Sinclair (geology), A. H. Phillips (mineralogy). 

 Department of biology: Curators, W. M. Rankin (botany), C. E. 

 Silvester (zoology), W. E. D. Scott (ornithology). 3 janitors. 



ANTHROPOLOGY. America is represented by the pottery and 

 human remains of the mound builders; by several hundred specimens 

 of Mexican and Peruvian pottery; and by a number of recent Indian 

 relics. The ethnological collections, chiefly from Alaska and New 

 Mexico, presented by Dr. Sheldon Jackson to the Theological Semi- 

 nary of Princeton, have been transferred to this museum by the 

 trustees of that institution, with the consent of the donor. There is 

 also a series of models of the cliff dwellings and pueblos of the South- 

 west. Extensive series of anthropological material, comprising house- 

 hold utensils, hunting implements, etc., illustrating very fully the 

 domestic life of the Esquimau of the West Greenland coast. A collec- 

 tion of relics from the Swiss lake dwellings representing fully the vari- 

 ous localities in Switzerland, particularly Neuchatel, and containing 

 a large number of type specimens from the collection of Dr. Gross, 

 who for a long time was associated with the work of recovering these 

 relics from the dwelling sites in the Swiss lakes. Localities in Norway 

 and Denmark representing the culture of this same epoch are also 

 represented. 



An extensive collection, gathered by the Rev. Robert Hamill 

 Nassau, of the class of 1854, at Batanga, West Africa, illustrates in 

 full the dress, implements of warfare, household utensils and articles of 

 adornment of the natives of the German Possessions in the Cameroon. 



BOTANY. These collections include, beside certain illustrative 

 specimens, models, and charts, a herbarium of mounted plants, com- 

 prising 4000 sheets of New Jersey flora; some 40,000 sheets of plants 

 from the United States, South America, Europe, and Asia; and 10,000 

 sheets of mosses, recently acquired from Dr. Per Dusen of Sweden. 



GEOLOGY. Minerals, on exhibition, 2ooo, in storage, 5ooo ; 

 teaching collections in petrology and economic and structural geology, 

 about 10,000 stratigraphic geology, about 10,000; relief maps, models, 

 etc., looo. The collections contain a unique series of about 10,000 



