BUFFALO SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCES 223 



NORTH DAKOTA 



BISMARCK: 



STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 



The State Historical Society was organized in 1895, reorganized 

 in 1903, and permanently established in the state capitol in 1906. It 

 receives $4600 a year from the state for the maintenance of its museum 

 and field work, in addition to the amount received from memberships 

 at $2 a year. It maintains a museum in charge of H. C. Fish, curator, 

 devoting special attention to local history and containing thousands 

 of specimens of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Indians, with good 

 exhibits of the Chippewas and Dakotas. There is also a library of 

 2000 volumes, including a special collection of books on the history of 

 the Northwest, and complete files of state papers. 



Lectures are given about the state to citizens, and also in the mus- 

 eum to school children; the total attendance is nearly 4500 a year. 

 The society has published 2 volumes of its Collections. 



FARGO: 



AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. 



The college maintains teaching collections in charge of a committee 

 of the faculty, consisting of J. H. Worst, J. H. Shepperd, C. I. Gunness, 

 and W. B. Bell. The collections include 100 anthropological speci- 

 mens; a herbarium of 1135 cryptogams and 7118 phanerogams, chiefly 

 from the West and Northwest; 600 minerals, 300 rocks, and n relief 

 maps, models, etc.; 100 invertebrate fossils; and a fair collection of 

 northwestern vertebrates, chiefly Dakota forms. There are also mus- 

 eum collections in connection with the agricultural and chemical de- 

 partments. 



It is proposed to unite the now scattered collections in a new science 

 hall when completed. 



UNIVERSITY: 



UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA. Museum. 



The museum is reported by M. A. Brannon, professor of biology, 

 as a general and promiscuous collection possessed of much valuable 

 material but unclassified and without financial support. 



The collection is said by Merrill to include 1000 fossils, 2000 min- 

 erals, 800 specimens of economic geology, 299 specimens in zoology, 

 4640 specimens in botany, and 650 ethnological specimens. 



