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some 16,000 individuals, representing very completely the avifauna 

 of New Jersey, and in part that of North America, Europe, Indo- 

 Asia, Australia, and South America. There are also about 4000 sets of 

 eggs, most of them in nests. The morphological collections contain 

 about 2600 preparations, illustrating the comparative anatomy of 

 vertebrates. These are being increased at the rate of about 300 prep- 

 arations a year. The histological collections contain some 30,000 

 mounted microscopical specimens illustrating the various forms of 

 tissues of many different animals; some 5000 specimens are stored in 

 paraffin blocks. 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. The museum contains the collections form- 

 erly included in the E. M. Museum of Geology and Archaeology, the 

 storerooms of the department of geology, the museum of biology, the 

 class of 1877 morphological museum, and the mineralogical museum of 

 the John C. Green School of Science. The task of consolidating and 

 arranging these collections is aot yet completed. 



FINANCIAL SUPPORT. By endowment and by appropriations from 

 the university. 



BUILDING. The museum occupies the ground floor of Guyot 

 Hall, the new natural science building, erected in 1909, at a cost of 

 about $425,000. About 19,650 square feet of floor space is available 

 for exhibition, and about 5921 will be used for offices, workrooms, etc. 



ADMINISTRATION. The museum is in charge of an executive com- 

 mittee of faculty members of the departments of natural science, the 

 details of administration being not yet determined. 



SCOPE. It is the object of the staff to build up exhibits illustrat- 

 ing the subjects taught in the departments of natural science and the 

 lines of investigation carried on by the members of the instructing staff 

 and the graduate students. 



LIBRARY. The library, located on the second floor of Guyot Hall, 

 has a reading room space of 625 square feet and lateral stacks holding 

 the working libraries of the biological and geological sciences, with 

 capacity for about 10,000 volumes. 



PUBLICATIONS. The E. M. Museum of Geology and Archaeology 

 has published a series of Bulletins, begun in 1878, and a series of Con- 

 tributions. Biological investigations are published in the Contribu- 

 tions from the Biological Laboratory of Princeton University. 



PRINCETON UNIVERSITY. Museum of Historic Art. 



The collections include casts of ancient, medieval, and renaissance 

 sculpture, presented by the class of 1881; the Turnbull-Prime collec- 



