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charge of W. H. Samson, chairman of library committee, N. S. Olds, 

 curator, and R. T. Webster, assistant curator. 



UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER. Museums. 



STAFF. Curators, H. L. Fairchild (geology and paleontology), 

 Charles Wright Dodge (botany and zoology). 



ANTHROPOLOGY. A small but well authenticated collection of 

 flint and bronze instruments from the drift region of Abbeville and 

 St. Acheul in France; stone implements from Copenhagen; North 

 American stone implements, including the Lewis H. Morgan collection 

 relating to North American Indians, mound builders, and cliff dwellers; 

 and specimens of pottery from the tombs of the Incas. 



BOTANY. A general teaching collection and the following special 

 collections: flowering plants and ferns of Monroe County, New York, 

 and a general collection of ferns deposited by the Rochester Academy 

 of Science; the Huntley collection of New Zealand ferns ; several 

 hundred species of the smaller fungi. 



GEOLOGY. Minerals, on exhibition, 5000, in storage, iooo; 

 Rocks, on exhibition, 3000, in storage, iooo ; Economic collections, 

 etc., 2ooo. Most of the material in this department is a part of the 

 Ward collections, accumulated during many years of extensive travel 

 and forming one of the best geological museums jn the country. 



PALEONTOLOGY. There are 25,ooo fossils on exhibition and 

 iooo in storage, including about 8000 European species. The col- 

 lection is particularly rich in ammonites and tertiary mollusks. There 

 are a large number of Ward casts, and a collection of carboniferous 

 plants made by Professor Fairchild in the Wyoming and Lackawanna 

 coal basin. 



ZOOLOGY. This collection was established in 1890, and includes 

 the Ward collection of South American birds and mammals; the Charles 

 Andrews memorial collection of Monroe County snails; a large collec- 

 tion of mollusks deposited by Charles M. Robinson; a collection of 

 land and water shells of Monroe County, deposited by the Rochester 

 Academy of Science; the Eaton and Wilbur collection of 500 specimens 

 illustrating 175 species of birds of Western New York; a large collec- 

 tion of bird eggs and nests; a collection of butterflies and moths de- 

 posited by the Rochester Academy of Science and the valuable 

 Watson collection illustrating protective resemblance and allied 

 phenomena among insects; and the Lewis H. Morgan collection, con- 

 taining the original specimens used in illustrating his monograph on 

 "The American Beaver and his Works." 



