NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMS 51 



KAN'SA'S 



Baker university museum, Baldwin. C. S. Parmeter in charge, 

 assisted by J. C. Bridwell. 



Paleontology. 21,156 specimens. Several hundred duplicates 

 for exchange. 



Mineralogy. 4810 specimens. 2000 duplicates for exchange. 



Historic geology and lithology. 500 specimens. 200 duplicates 

 for exchange. 



Zoology. 43,638 specimens: mammals, 60; birds, 406; eggs, 

 1052; reptiles, 264; insects, 32,798; mollusks, 8458; marine inver- 

 tebrates, 600. 5000 duplicates for exchange. 



Botany. 7789 specimens: Phanerogamia, Hepatica and Musci. 

 500 duplicates for exchange. 



Ethnology. 900 specimens. 30O duplicates for exchange. 



Bethany college, Lindsborg. J. E. Welin, curator in charge. 



Paleontology. 500 specimens: Silurian, Devonian, Carbonifer- 

 ous, Jura-Trias, Cretaceous, Tertiary and Quaternary; the type 

 specimen (a skull in good condition) ofMegalonyx leidyi 

 Lindahl. Some common fossils for exchange. 



Mineralogy. 800 specimens from United States, Sweden, 

 Africa and South America; contains specimens of almost all the 

 mineralogic groups and serves. the purpose of class elucidation. 



Historic and economic geology and lithology. 100 specimens: 

 different groups of rocks. 



Zoology. 1000 specimens: mounted specimens of mammals and 

 birds; unmounted skins of same and mammals for class study; 

 alcoholic specimens of reptiles and all groups of marine and 

 fresh-water invertebrates. 



Botany. 1500 specimens: almost every family of flowering 

 plants; several genera of ferns; a few mosses. 



Ethnology and anthropology. 2000 specimens : a finely mounted 

 and classified collection of Indian relics from this vicinity con- 

 sisting of pottery; flint and bone implements; stone (Sioux 

 quartzite) hammers, metates with hand pestles, some pipes and 

 pipestone. The college has recently received a fine collection 



