46 NEW YORK STATE MtJSEUM 



Zoology. 13,000 specimens: an almost complete series of mam- 

 mals and birds of Indiana, numbering 500 specimens; the A. W. 

 Butler collection of the lower vertebrates of Indiana, giving full 

 suites of the serpents, lizards and batrachians; 500 fishes, repre- 

 sentative of the larger genera and families; the Scheuch collec- 

 tion of Coleoptera, 6000 specimens; and the Scheuch and other 

 collections of mollusks, 6000. No material for exchange. 



Botany. 8000 specimens: 5000 phanerogams; 2000 cryptogams, 

 etc.; 500 specimens of seeds and economic products; 60 of wood, 

 and 500 microscopic sections. No material for exchange. 



Ethnology. 1000 specimens: small collections of relics from 

 Fort Ouiatenon and from the Pueblo Indian villages; also collec- 

 tion of local stone implements. No exchange. 



The museum is organized fo^r illustrative purposes in the 

 various branches of science, and other features are subordinate 

 to this. 



Taylor university, Walker museum, Upland. O. W. Brackney, 

 curator. 



Paleontology. 500 specimens. 



Mineralogy. 1000 specimens: iron ores best represented. 



Zoology. 100 specimens: mounted birds and animals. 



Botany. Mounted plants and specimens of wood found in this 

 vicinity. 



Ethnology and anthropology. 300 specimens : Indian relics, etc. 



Museum also possesseis a collection of coins and stamps. 



Wabash college, Hovey museum, Cra wf or devil le. Mason B. 

 Thomas, curator; Donaldson Bodine, professor of geology and 

 zoology. 



Paleontology. 4300 specimens: 300 cast® of fossil vertebrates; 

 300 fossils from the Coal Measures; 500 crinoids, 200 trilobites 

 and 3000 corals, brachiopods, gastropods, cephalopods, etc. from 

 the Keokuk group at Crawfordsville; fossil fishes from Persia; 

 and a series of mammalian fossils from California. 



The illustrative material is valuable and fairly representative. 

 The series of fossils is carefully arranged to portray the develop- 

 ment of life from the early primordial times to the present. 



