IQO DIRECTORY OF AMERICAN MUSEUMS 



bition, 60, in storage, 25. This material is chiefly from New York 

 state. 



ZOOLOGY. 248 specimens on exhibition and 360 in storage. 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. The museum was organized in 1906, 

 though much of the material had been acquired during preceding years. 



FINANCIAL SUPPORT. From the general fund of the university. 



BUILDING. The museum occupies 1400 square feet of floor space 

 for exhibition, and 500 for offices, etc. in the Carnegie Science Hall 

 erected in 1906 at a cost of $60,000. 



ADMINISTRATION. By a curator, responsible to the president of 

 the university. 



SCOPE. College teaching and the maintenance of local collections. 



LIBRARY. A small collection of reference books for the use of 

 students. 



ATTENDANCE. Open free to students and visitors during the 

 college session, and at all times on application to the janitor. 



In addition to the above there is a small anthropological collec- 

 tion in the department of history, and an art collection under a sepa- 

 ate department. 



CLINTON: 



HAMILTON COLLEGE. 



The college maintains collections primarily for teaching purposes 

 in Knox Hall in charge of W. G. Miller. The museum includes a 

 considerable collection of Indian implements and relics, especially 

 arrowheads, from the United States; the Dr. H. P. Sartwell herbarium; 

 and a geological collection including 10,000 minerals and ores, and 

 5000 rocks and fossils. The Oren Root collection of New York state 

 minerals is of special interest, being probably the best collection of 

 its kind except that of the State Museum. There is also the John 

 D. Conley collection of fossils and minerals. In zoology there is the 

 Henry Loomis collection of about 10,000 shells, the Barlow and Arnold 

 collections of insects, and the Barlow and Dorrance collections of 

 local birds. 



CORTLAND: 



CORTLAND SCIENCE CLUB. 



The Cortland Science Club was formed by F. W. Higgins in 1899 

 and incorporated in 1902 for the purpose of acquiring and maintaining 

 a museum and library and promoting the study of natural science. 



