34 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM * 



Ethnology. 8000 specimens exclusive of the local collection: 

 relics of North American Indians; collections from southern 

 Illinois, Missouri and Kentucky; complete series of specimenjs^ 

 from England illustrating the process of making gunflints; antt 

 a large variety of material from various parts of the world. 

 Much described material not on exhibition owing to lack of 

 room. 



The university medical school has a museum of comparative 

 anatomy at Chicago. 



Connected with the museum at Evanston is a "museum of 

 ceramics and other arts ". 



Elgin scientific society, Elgin. Collections are small, the geo- 

 logic material consisting principally of specimens gathered in 

 the vicinity of Elgin, with a limited amount from Colorado, Cali- 

 fornia and elsewhere. 



The society has also a collection of shells and corals and some 

 curios from Egypt and elsewhere. 



Field Columbian museum, Chicago. F. J. V. Skiff, director. 



Paleontology. 7000 specimens of fossils, with casts and models 

 arranged chronologically to illustrate the animal and vegetable 

 forms which have characterized the life of the globe at the 

 succeeding stages of its history; exceptionally large and com- 

 plete series of fossils of Niagara age from the Chicago region, 

 of Mazon Creek Coal Measures plants, of European and 

 American ammonites, of European icthyosaurs, of American 

 dinosaurs and of Bad Lands vertebrates; complete skeletons of 

 the mastodon, Irish deer and extinct moa of New Zealand, and 

 the largest known skull of Titanotherium and largest known 

 limb bones of dinosaur. 



Mineralogy. 6000 specimens. The arrangement is based on 

 that given in Dana's new System of mineralogy, the purpose 

 being to illustrate the different species therein described. 

 Specimens worthy of special notice are: among the sulfids, large 

 crystals of stibnite from Japan; among the haloids, the beautiful 

 green and purple fluorites from English and American localities; 

 among the oxids, the extensive collection of natural and ar^ 



