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■good 'herbarium of Canada. Collections of native and cultivated fruits, 

 seeds, etc., preserved in a liquid medium for reference for agricultural as 

 well as horticultural purposes. Samples of the cereals, grasses, and fruits 

 which grow in Canada as the result of tests made at the central and other 

 ■experimental stations in Canada. Samples of soils from different portions 

 of Canada and the North-West. Director : Dr. Wm. Saunders, F.R.S.C, 

 Ottawa, Ontario. Maintained by the Dominion Government Territories, 

 forming part of the Department of Agriculture. Collections of insects 

 injurious and beneficial to vegetation. Botanical and entomological 

 collections in charge of Dr. James Fletcher, Central Experimental Farm, 

 Ottawa, Ontario. 



Quee7i's University Museum, Kingston, Ontario. — Contains 22,700 

 Gpecim&ns, arranged and classified for the use of professors and students. 

 Of these there are 3,600 minerals and rocks and 5,000 fossil organic 

 remains, in all 8,600 geological specimens. The zoological collections, 

 chiefly mollusca and other invertebrata, number 3,146 specimens. Ento- 

 mological and ethnological collections defective. 



The herbarium is an excellent one, and contains 9,435 sheets of 

 Phanerogamia and Cryptogamia of Canada and other countries. Type 

 specimen : Large slab showing tracks of Saicropus ungui/er, Dawson, 

 from the Carboniferous rocks of Cumberland County, Nova Scotia. 



Special collection : The ' Rev. Andrew Bell collection ' of minerals, 

 •rocks, and fossils, consisting of 1,500 specimens. Curator : Rev. J. Fowler, 

 M.A., F.R.S.C, Kingston, Ontario. 



Museum of the School of Mining, Kingston, Ontario. — The mineral 

 collection consists of about 9,000 specimens, classified as follows : — 

 (1) Specimens to which students have access, 5,650 ; (2) specimens illus- 

 trating physical mineralogy, 900; (3) mineral species, 2,120, specimens; 

 {4) ores, &c. 



The palpeontological collections consist of the Columbian Exposition 

 -collection sent to Chicago by the Geological Survey of Canada, and presented 

 to the Ontario School of Mining, together with a number of specimens of 

 Ontario palseozoic fossils. Curator : Professor W. G. Miller, M.A., Ph.D. 



Biological Museum, University of Toro7ito, Toronto, Ontario. — Contains 

 between 15,000 and 20,000 specimens, of which the geological department 

 includes about 12,000 specimens, as follows : — 



Ferrier collection of minerals .... 6,000 specimens 



Pala3ontological collections 4,000 „ 



Kocks, &c 2,000 



The zoological collections alone number 8,000 specimens, and include 

 specimens of living and fossil representatives of the various classes and 

 orders of the animal kingdom, as well as a large series of models for educa- 

 tional purposes. There is also a good herbarium, with collections of woods, 

 models, &c., all of which serve to illustrate the botanical department in 

 ■the university. The ethnological department, established by the late Sir 

 Daniel Wilson, contains a large collection of crania and implements. 



There are no types in the museum. Curators : Professor R. Ramsay 



Wright, M. A., Ph.D., Professor A. B. Macallum, M. A., C. Jeffrey,Esq., M. A. 



Museum of the School of Practical Science, Toronto, Ontario. — Contains 



'6,000 specimens, of which 3,292 belong to the geological department, and 



■are divided as follows : — 



Minerals 1,245 specimens 



Rocks 1,647 „ 



Fossil organic remains 400 „ 



