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fossils; a few from the Carboniferous system; a number of 

 Jurassic and Cretaceous and some bones and teeth of Masto- 

 don and Elephas. 



Indiana university museum, Bloomington. C. H. Eigenmann, 

 professor of zoology in charge; V. F. Masters, professor of geology; 

 T>. M. Mottier, professor of botany. 



Paleontology. 10,000 specimens: very complete collection of 

 corals from Falls of the Ohio; fair collection of Brachiopoda; 

 many thousand fossils of the Cincinnati group; numerous speci- 

 mens of all the species of the Spergen hill fauna ; nearly com- 

 plete representation of the Waldron fauna; small series from 

 the Genesee, Hamilton and Portage of New York; small series 

 from the New York Trenton. 



Cincinnati, Waldron and Spergen hill species for exchange. 



Mineralogy. 250 species: ores and rock-making minerals con- 

 stituting a working collection for students. 



Historic and economic geology and Uthology. Series of rocks 

 illustrating the geologic formations of the United States; series 

 (United States geological survey) illustrating the lithologic 

 types. 



Zoology. 55,000 specimens: several thousand species of fishes; 

 several hundred birds; limited number of mammals, reptiles and 

 batrachians; miscellaneous collection of invertebrates. 



Botany. A small but constantly increasing collection of dry 

 and alcoholic specimens of the higher and lower formis of plant 

 life illustrating certain phases. 



Purdue university, Lafayette. Stanley Coulter, director of the 

 hiologic laboratories. 



Paleontology. 4000 specimens, confined almost exclusively to 

 the forms found in the Indiana series of rocks. While there are 

 no type specimens, the collections are fairly complete in Silurian, 

 Devonian and Carboniferous forms. 



Mineralogy. A representative series of 1000 specimens of gen- 

 eral interest. No duplicates for exchange. 



Economic geology and litliology. Material is included in other 

 collections, or distributed in the testing laboratories. No dupli- 

 cates for exchange. 



