298 DIRECTORY OF AMERICAN MUSEUMS 



WASHINGTON 



PULLMAN: 



STATE COLLEGE OF WASHINGTON. 



The college maintains a museum on the third floor of the science 

 hall, in charge of W. T. Shaw, curator. The general collection occu- 

 pies a large central room, while the departmental collections are in 

 three smaller rooms. The museum comprises an excellent collection 

 of minerals from the United States, New South Wales, Germany, 

 and Mexico; an almost complete collection of the ores of the state of 

 Washington; plaster casts of prehistoric implements; a herbarium com- 

 prising 8o,ooo phanerogams and pteridophytes, 5000=1= bryophytes, 

 io,ooo fungi, and 200 algae; the Misses Mary P. Olney collec- 

 tion of shells; a nearly complete collection of Puget Sound mollusks; 

 a large series of fossil shells from Canada; 200 ooo insects; an excellent 

 set of echinoderms and other invertebrates; and a large number of 

 mounted fishes, birds, and mammals. The collection of Alaskan 

 birds is especially notable, consisting of about no species obtained by 

 the curator during two trips through southern Alaska, the Yukon 

 country, and the Bering Sea region, and including a specimen of the 

 Fisher petrel (/Estrelaia fisheri) which is the second known to science. 



The college appropriates $750-1000 a year for the general 

 ma'ntenance of the museum. The collections are open free to the 

 public on week-days from 9 to 4. 



SEATTLE: 



UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON. State Museum. 



STAFF. Curator, F. S. Hall; i assistant and i janitor. 



ANTHROPOLOGY. Ethnology, native, 26,000+ , foreign, 600+ . 

 This department includes the Stewart collection of many thousand 

 Indian implements, weapons, baskets, etc., collected along the lower 

 Columbia River and purchased for the museum at the close of the Lewis 

 and Clark Exposition; an extensive Philippine collection; and the 

 Emmons collection of about 1800 articles illustrating the life and 

 habits of the Tlingit people of southeastern Alaska. 



BOTANY. Cryptogams, 1500 (10 types); Phanerogams, 10,000. 

 There are also 400 jars of preserved fruits, nuts, vegetables, etc. of 

 the state; 200+ economic grasses, seeds, etc., from Washington and 

 Alaska; an exhibition series of 450+ mounted botanical specimens 

 from Washington and Alaska; and an extensive forestry exhibit from 

 Washington, Alaska, Hawaii, and the Philippines. 



