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ADMINISTRATION. By a curator, responsible to a committee of 

 the church. 



SCOPE. Exploration, maintenance of local collections, and instruc- 

 tion of the general public. 



LIBRARY. A working collection for use of the staff only. 



UNIVERSITY OF UTAH. 



The curator, Orson Howard, reports that the university main- 

 tains a museum, but no reply has been received to repeated requests 

 for further information regarding the collections, which are said by 

 Merrill to comprise a herbarium of 1700 plants, 2000 minerals, 200 

 fossils, and 2000 zoological specimens. 



VERMONT 



BURLINGTON: 



UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT. Museums. 



STAFF. Curator, G. H. Perkins, who is also professor of geology; 

 Curator of the botanical museum, C. G. Pringle. 



ANTHROPOLOGY. Archeology, native, i5,ooo, foreign, 500; 

 Ethnology, native, 1000, foreign, 2000. This department includes 

 several thousand specimens of stone, bone, copper, shell, and earthen- 

 ware objects from the Champlain Valley, with smaller collections from 

 the Ohio and Mississippi valleys and the Pacific coast. The pottery 

 of the mound builders and of Pueblo tribes is represented by jars, 

 dishes, vases, stone and bone implements, basket work, bits of cloth, 

 skulls, etc., from cliff houses in Mancos Canyon, Colorado. There 

 are also collections of weapons, implements, and ornaments of the na- 

 tives of Australia, Polynesia, Africa, and oriental countries. The Reed 

 collection of objects obtained among the Sioux Indians is of special 

 interest, and there are also similar specimens from the southern tribes. 

 There is also the valuable Lewis collection of Chinese objects. The 

 collection of oriental objects obtained in India by the late Henry 

 LeGrand Cannon is displayed in a room added to the museum by 

 special provision of the donor. It includes fabrics and draperies; 

 bronze and porcelain lamps; chairs, stand, and screen of teak- wood 

 elaborately carved; numerous articles of silver, chiefly ornamental; 

 musical instruments; household articles of brass and iron; Indian, 

 Persian, and Japanese armor; articles of Tibetan origin; and fine speci- 

 mens of European arms of the i5th and i6th centuries. 



ART. Sculpture, 3 marbles and 28 casts; Prints and engravings, 

 33; Oil paintings, 18; Water colors, 3. This collection was begun in 



