NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMS 55 



Washburn college museum, Topeka. G. P. Grimsley, professor 

 of geology amd natural history, in charge. 



Paleontology, 8000 specimens: Dakota fossil leaves from 

 Kansas; a series of Cretaceous fossils; a series of fossils from the 

 Carboniferous formations of Kansas; specimens of the Carbon- 

 iferous flora of Ohio; and of the Lower Silurian and Devonian 

 from the latter state. 



Fossils from the Carboniferous of Kansas and from the Silur- 

 ian and Devonian systems of Ohio for exchange. 



Mineralogy. 500 specimens: ores and minerals of Kansas. 



Historic geology and lithology. 500 specimens illustrative of the 

 geology of Kansas. 



Zoology. 2000 specimens : reptiles, fish and fresh-water shells 

 of Kansas; mounted specimens of the buffalo, mountain lion, 

 and smaller mammals; marine shells, corals and crustaceans. 



Fresh-water shells of Kansas for exchange. 



Botany. 2000 specimens: including a herbarium of the phan- 

 erogams, mosses and fungi of Kansas, and the Ellis collection of 

 fungi. Kansas phanerogams for exchange. 



This museum is very desirous of exchanging for geologic and 



zoologic material. 



KENTUCKY 



Bethel college, Russellville. No report. 



€enter college of Kentucky. No report. 



Central university of Kentucky, Richmond. No report. 



Kentucky university, Lexington. Alfred Fairhurst in charge. 



Paleontology. 500 specimens of fossils, of general distribution. 

 Faunas of the Trenton and the Corniferous limestones being best 

 represented. 



Mineralogy. 500 specimens: ordinary minerals, ores and non- 

 metallic minerals about equally represented. 



Lithology. 200 specimens of rocks, including one of the 

 students collections distributed by the Smithsonian institution. 



Zoology. 75 specimens of small mammals; 1000 specimens of 

 birds, of which 700 are mounted; about 100 specimens of birds 



