NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMS 6S 



Maps. Extensive suites of maps, and among them, these: 



1 A set of topographical and geological maps prepared by the 

 United States geological survey; maps prepared by the United 

 States coast and geodetic survey, Mississippi and Missouri river 

 commissions, United States land office, and many of the earlier 

 national surveys. 



2 Maps prepared by the various state geological and topo- 

 graphical surveys in the United States. 



3 Partial, and in some cases complete, sets of topographical 

 and geological maps prepared by the national surveys of Great 

 Britain, including many of the colonies (especially Canada and 

 Australia), France, Germany, Austria, Russia, Norway and 

 Sweden, Italy, Holland, Belgium and Japan. 



The botanic collections are described in the same publication 

 as follows: 



1 The Schiniper collection of European and African flowering 

 plants, of about 4300 sheets, the gift of Dr A. F. W. Schimper, 

 now professor of botany in Bonn; 



2 The Fitzgerald collection of American and European mosses, 

 including about 1000 sheets, the gift of Mr Charles H. Fitzgerald, 

 formerly of Baltimore. 



Deposited with the university and available for use in its work 

 are : 



3 The local collection of flowering plants and ferns belonging 

 to the Naturalist's field club, of about 1400 sheets; 



4 The collection of American cryptogams, chiefly algae and 

 fungi, belonging to Dr J. E. Humphrey, comprising about 2500 

 sheets. 



Accessible to suitably prepared students, is the remarkable 

 herbarium of Capt. John Donnell Smith of Baltimore, represent- 

 ing the flowering plants and ferns of many parts of the world, 

 especially rich in the flora of tropical America, including some 

 85,000 sheets. The owner of this collection has generously 

 offered to give it to the Johns Hopkins university when a suitable 

 place can be provided for it. 



Maryland academy of sciences, Baltimore. P. R. Uhler, presi- 

 dent; William Wolle, curator; John Widgeon, collector. 



Paleontology. 500,000 specimens nearly all from Maryland 

 localiti: s, from all formatibns in the state; Lower Helderberg 

 and Oriskany exceptionally well represented. Triassic dino- 

 saurian cracks; Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous plants. 



Historic and eoonomic geology and Uthology. A few hundred 

 specimens. Gneisses, granites, diorites, marbles, sandstones 



