NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMS 29' 



Entomoloyij. 16.000 specimens, main- unnamed, though about 

 2000 species have been determined by authorities of high stand- 

 ing. 



Boiunij. More than 10,000 sheets of flowering plants; also col- 

 lections of woods, tree fruits, fungi, etc. 



Archeology. 100 specimens; also some arrowheads and minor 

 articles. 



ILLINOIS 



Augustana college, Rock Island. J. A. ITdden, curator. The 

 museum is intended as an adjunct in instruction, but is also de- 

 voted to the care of local natural history material. 



Paleowtologij. 4000 specimens: general collection; Mc^Iaster 

 collection from Rock Island and vicinity. 



Mineralogy. 500 specimens: general. 



Historic and economic geology and Uthology. 1000 specimens: 

 rocks, 500; formational collection of rocks and some fossils, 300; 

 collection illustrating dynamic geology, folds, mud cracks, con- 

 cretions, etc., 200. 



Zoology. 3000 specimens: 2000 general; egg collection, 100 

 species. 



Botany. 3000 specimens : exsiccate phanerogams. 



Ethnology and anthropology. 1000 specimens: 500 coins; Kaffir 

 articles of ornament, etc.; Hindu workmanship; American In- 

 dian relics. 



Austin college, Effingham. No report. 



Carthage college, Carthage. No report. 



Chicago academy of sciences, Lincoln park, Chicago. Thomas C. 

 Chamberlin, president; William K. Higley, secretary; Frank C. 

 Baker, curator in charge; Frank M. Woodruff, taxidermist. 



Paleontology. 12,000 specimens representing 1600 species of 

 fossils: specially rich in forms of Silurian and Carboniferous 

 formations; nearly complete collection of Niagara fossils from 

 Chicago region containing about 30 type specimens; a mounted 

 skeleton of Elephas primigenius and a good specimen 

 of a skull of Castoroides ohioensis. The Cincinnati 



