48 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



soine miscellaneous material; a collection of minerals, including 

 ores, calcites, agates and petrifactions. 



There is a small collection of fresh- water shells. 



IOWA 



Amity college museum, College Springs. George M. Reed, 

 curator in charge. 



Paleontology. 2000 specimens: 1000 mollusks; 50 crinoids; 50 

 petrified fragments of bones of mountain lions and bears; 50 frag- 

 ments of fossil lepidodendrons and ferns of Carboniferous age; 

 and 10 belemnites from the Black Hills of Dakota. 200 dupli- 

 cate mollusks for exchange. 



Mineralogy. 1000 specimens of a general nature representing 

 ores of gold, silver, lead, zinc, particularly iron and copper; a 

 good collection of anthracite and bituminous coals from various 

 loicalities; collections of sedimentary and crystalline rocks. 



Zoology. 500 specimens : 200 alcoholic specimens of marine in- 

 vertebrates; 200 ishells; and 50 miscellaneous land specimens. 



Botany. 100 specimens of dried plants, seeds and abnormal 

 growths ; a series of cotton plants in various stages of growi;h. 



Ethnology. 200 relics of the American Indians; a "prehistoric 

 whetstone" from Kentucky; a few archeologic specimens from 

 the island of Cyprus. 



Cornell college, Mount Vernon. No report. 



Davenport academy of sciences, Davenport. Mrs Mary L. D. 

 Putnam, president; J. H. Paarmann, curator. 



The academy possesses extensive collections in archeology, 

 ethnology, mineralogy, paleontology, entomology, birds and 

 corals, besides a very large scientific library. 



Iowa college, Parker museum of natural history, Grinnell. Di- 

 rector H. W. Norris, professor of hiology and geology in charge. 



Paleontology. 2000 s-pecimens, chiefly from the Silurian and 

 Devonian systems but not at present well arranged. 



Mvneralogy. A general collection of about 1000 specimens. 

 Duplicates for exchange. 



lAthology. Material not abundant. 



