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PUBLICATIONS. 26 Bulletins of the Library and Museum have 

 been issued, either separately or as a part of the college catalog. 



CONVENT DES SOEURS DE SAINT-CROIX. 



Teaching collections are maintained in charge of Sister Marie de 

 Sainte-Amelie. They comprise a herbarium of 600 cryptogams and 

 4400 phanerogams, with a collection of 100 fruits; 1400 min'erals and 

 rocks; 350 fossils; 2400 coins and 1300 medals; and a zoological collec- 

 tion including 1325 shells, 850 insects, 72 other invertebrates, 15 fishes, 

 lobatrachians, 25 reptiles, 306 birds, and 40 mammals. These col- 

 lections occupy 1575 square feet of floor space in a building erected in 

 1889. 



SHERBROOKE: 



ST. CHARLES SEMINARY. Museum. 



STAFF. Caretaker, Leon Marcotte. 



MINERALOGY. A few hundred specimens of minerals and rocks. 



NUMISMATICS. Over 2000 coins, medals, etc. 



ZOOLOGY. Shells, a few hundred; Insects, 3000 species, principally 

 coleoptera and lepidoptera; Birds, 150; Mammals, 40. 



FINANCIAL SUPPORT. By small annual grants from the seminary, 

 . supplemented by private contributions. 



BUILDING. The museum occupies over 4000 square feet of floor 

 space in the fireproof building in the seminary. 



SCOPE. Special attention is devoted to the natural history of the 

 eastern townships of Quebec and to instruction of students in the 

 seminary. 



ATTENDANCE. Open free to the public. The attendance in 1909 

 was over 700. 



VILLE ST. LOUIS: 



MUSEE DE L'INSTITUTION DES SOURDS-MUETS. (1941 Rue 

 St. Dominique.) 



This institution maintains a museum of objects useful in teaching 

 language to deaf-mutes. The museum was formally organized in 1885 

 and is in charge of J. A. Jean, conservateur, assisted by other members 

 of the faculty, none of whom receive remuneration for museum work. 

 The collections comprise a herbarium of 175 cryptogams and 598 

 phanerogams from the province of Quebec; a numismatic collection 

 of 3737 pieces, especially rich in Canadian coins; a general collection of 



