220 DIRECTORY OF AMERICAN MUSEUMS 



DURHAM: 



TRINITY COLLEGE. 



The college maintains small teaching collections, including a 

 good collection of bird skins, skeletons for use in the study of compara- 

 tive anatomy, and local collections of shells and other invertebrates 

 from Beaufort, N. C. and Woods Hole, Mass. . The collection is in 

 charge of James J. Wolfe, professor of biology, but has no regular 

 funds for .development. 



TRINITY COLLEGE HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 



No reply has been received to repeated requests for information 

 concerning this society, which is said by Thwaites to maintain a 

 collection of portraits and articles of local historical interest in the 

 library of Trinity College. 



RALEIGH: 



NORTH CAROLINA STATE MUSEUM. 



STAFF. Curator, H. H. Brimley ; Assistant curator, T. W. Adickes; 

 Director of hall of history, F. A. Olds; Usher, A. H. Lewis; i janitor, 

 i night watchman, and i engineer. 



ANTHROPOLOGY. About 1000 objects relating to the native races 

 of North Carolina. 



ART. i case of chinaware, illustrating the possibilities of North 

 Carolina kaolin. 



BOTANY. 60 jars of native forest seeds; 322 specimens of native 

 woods; 500 jars of native medicinal plants; and 5oo forestry speci- 

 mens in storage. 



COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY. A small collection of kalmia and 

 rhododendron blocks illustrating the " briar" pipe industry; collec- 

 tions illustrating the turpentine industry and the possibilities of 

 ornamental native woods; a large collection of agricultural and horti- 

 cultural specimens and photographs; building stones of North Carolina; 

 a large series of photographs and transparencies illustrating many of 

 the industries of the state. 



EDUCATION. An over-crowded exhibit occupying 300 square feet 

 of floor space devoted to the public schools of North Carolina. 



GEOLOGY. Minerals, on exhibition, 2400, in storage, many hun- 

 dred; Rocks, 600; Relief maps, i; Native ores and economic minerals, 

 on exhibition, 3000, in storage, many hundred; Native building and 

 ornamental stones, 128; Meteorites, a small collection; Diamond drill 

 cores and artesian well borings. Special attention is given to the non- 



