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special collections. Curator : Professor L. W. Bailey, M.A., Ph.D., 

 F.R.S.C., Pi-ofessor of Geology, University of New Brunswick. 



Museum de VUniversitc Laval, Quebec, Quebec. — The nucleus of this 

 collection, which now amounts to 35,000 specimens, arranged and classified, 

 was the old ' Cabinet de Min^ralogie ' of the Quebec Seminary. The 

 mineralogical cabinet to-day comprises more than 4,000 specimens. Of 

 special interest is a collection of minerals made by the Abbe Haiiy for the 

 Quebec Seminary. Besides 1,000 specimens of rocks, determined by Dr. 

 Sterry Hunt, the geological collections include upwards of 1,000 fossil 

 remains, some from Canada, determined by the late Mr. E. Billings and 

 by Dr. H. M. Ami, others from the late Abbe Joachim Barrande, of 

 Bohemia. The zoological collections include 17,000 specimens : 1,200 

 mammals, 14,000 insects, and 2,000 shells from various parts of the world. 

 The botanical collections, including I'Abbe O. Brunet's herbarium, named 

 by Gray, Hooker, Engelman, and Michaux, comprise upwards of 10,000 

 sheets. Herbaria, by Hall, Parry, Harbour, Geyer, N. Bieid, Leidenberg, 

 Vincent, Moser, Smith, Durand, Nuttall, and Rafinesque are also included 

 in the botanical collection at Laval. 



The dried specimens of plants are supplemented by an excellent collec- 

 tion of woods from Canada and foreign countries. 



An archasological and ethnological collection of about 1,000 pieces, 

 prepared by Dr. Joseph Charles Tache, for the most part illustrates the 

 manners and customs of the Huron aborigines and Indians of North-East 

 America. The numismatic collection contains some 3,000 coins and 

 medals. 



The 'Lea collection' of Unios, the Macoun collection of North-West. 

 Canadian plants, the St. Cyr Herbarium of Quebec, the Dr. Ahem col- 

 lection of Quebec fossils, form some of the more conspicuous collections in 

 the museum of the University. Curator and Kector : Very Rev. 

 Mgr. J. C. K. Laflamme, P.A., F.R.S.C. 



Museum de V Instruction Puhlique, Quebec, Quebec. — Contains 32,450' 

 specimens, neatly housed, but uncomfortably overcrowded in a portion of 

 the uppermost storey of the Provincial Parliament Building, Quebec. 

 The local Legislature has given a small annual grant to the curator for 

 the support and maintenance of this museum for a number of years. 

 The geological collections consist of 3,500 specimens of minerals and 780 

 fossils. The zoological collections amount to 4,430 specimens as follows : 

 Mammals, 60 ; birds (mounted), 46 ; birds (skins), 514 ; birds' eggs, 271 ; 

 fishes, 65 ; mollusca, 3,480. The entomological collection is large and 

 contains 15,670 specimens, including as it does I'Abbe Provancher's 

 type collections of Canadian insects, described and figured in his ' Faune 

 Entomologique de Quebec' The St. Cyr Hei'barium is very exten- 

 sive, and includes an excellent series of the Quebec flora. It contains 

 7,870 sheets. Curator of the Museum : Mons. D. N. St. Cyr, Quebec, 

 Quebec. 



Museum du Seminaire de Philosophie, Montreal, Quebec. — For the use 

 of the students and professors. Contains about 6,300 specimens, of which 

 2,000 are geological (minerals and rocks) ; 1,500 palaeontological ; 2,810 

 zoological, besides a fair collection of botanical specimens for teaching 

 purposes. Amongst the special collections we note one, ' Collection de 

 Mineralogie faite pour le College de Montreal par les soins du c^lebre 

 Haiiy, 1822.' Most of the fossils are European. Curator : L. Lepoupon. 



Museum du College Saint-Laurent, St. Laurent, near Montreal, Quebec 

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