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BOTANY. Cryptogams, 2000; Phanerogams, 45oo. The de- 

 partment includes the Merrill collection of 1000 ferns; 100 Hawaiian 

 ferns; a general herbarium of 1500 specimens; and ico plants, in many 

 cases with open flowers, preserved in alcohol. As an adjunct to the 

 museum the Eleanor conservatory contains about 1500 plants repre- 

 senting the leading families. 



GEOLOGY. Minerals and rocks, 2572; Dynamic geology, relief 

 maps, models, etc., 50; Microscopic sections of rocks, 100. 



PALEONTOLOGY. Invertebrate, vertebrate, and plant fossils, on 

 exhibition, 1625, in storage, 2ioo. This collection includes skeletons 

 of a mastodon and a moa; 100 fine sections of American fossil bryozoa; 

 and 50 species of fossil ostracoid entomostraca. 



ZOOLOGY. Shells, on exhibition, 5oo, in storage, 6000; Insects, 

 5oo; Other invertebrates, 30o; Fishes, 4o; Batrachians, ioo; 

 Reptiles, ioo; Birds, on exhibition, 2500=!=, in storage, i22; 

 Mammals, i4o. The collection of birds includes the types of Ster- 

 corarius pomerinus (Audubon specimen), Icterus graceaurcea, and 

 Merula hauxwelli. Especially valuable specimens are the great auk 

 which served as the original of Audubon's plate, a male Labrador duck, 

 and several ivory-billed woodpeckers and Carolina parakeets. These 

 specimens were in the collection of J. J. Giraud, who was a friend of 

 Audubon and obtained some of his specimens from him. 



FINANCIAL SUPPORT. The college grants annually $650 to each 

 of the two divisions of the museum (art and natural history). There 

 is also a fund of $2000 left by J. J. Giraud, the income of which is 

 used for the extension of the collection of North American birds. 



ADMINISTRATION. By curators, responsible to a board of trustees 

 through the president of the college. 



SCOPE. The purpose of the museum is college teaching. 



ROCHESTER: 



ROCHESTER ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 



The academy has botanical and zoological collections deposited 

 in the museum of the University of Rochester. 



ROCHESTER HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 



In addition to a library of several thousand volumes on local 

 American history, the society maintains a collection of Indian relics 

 and other anthropological material; portraits of local celebrities and 

 other prints and paintings of a historical nature. The collection is in 



