NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMS 17 



Geology. 1200 specimens, a portion of which are in the high 



school. 



Trinity college museum, Hartford. Charles Lincoln Edwards 

 in charge; Karl Wilhelm Genthe, instructor in natuA^al history. 



PaUontolof/y. Typical fossils, originals and casts; among the 

 latter are Icthyosaurus, Plesiosauriis, ^lastodon, Dinotherium, 

 Glyptodon, Megatherium and about 60 Ammonites. 



Mineralogy. Type minerals, specially from New York and New 

 England, also many European specimens. 



HistwHc and economic geology and Hthology. Models and photo- 

 graphs of volcanic and other important mountains; collections 

 illustrating Vesuvian minerals and rocks and the Triassic for- 

 mations of Connecticut; Ward collection illustrating the New 

 York system of rocks; Ward stratigraphic collection, and Ward 

 systematic collection of rocks (college series). 



Zoology. Skeletons of mammals, birds nests and eggs, shells 

 and corals; Blaschka glass models of Hydrozoa; Ziegler's w^ax 

 models showing development of the frog and chick. 



Botany. Herbarium of Nebraska plants. 



Ethnology and anthropology. War clubs, arrowheads, pipes, 

 dresses, pottery, etc., and material, including a skeleton, from 

 the Santa Catalina islands. 



Wesleyan university, Middletown. B. P. Raymiond, president, in 

 charge, assisted by W. N. Rice, professor of geology, H. W. Conn, 

 professor of Mology, and S. W. Loper, curator. 



Paleontology. 15,000 specimens: including Lower Silurian 

 fossils from Canon City, Colorado, and Yalcour island. Lake 

 Champlain; Subcarboniferous fossils from Chattanooga Tenn., 

 and Craw^fordsville Ind.; a fine representation of Triassic fishes, 

 and some fossil footprints of dinosaurs, etc. from the shales and 

 sandstones of the Connecticut valley; lithographic limestone 

 fossils from Solenhofen; a fine representation of Tertiary plants, 

 insects, and fishes from Fossil Wy. and Florissant Col.; many 

 casts of fossils made by Ward and others. 



Duplicates of Triassic fishes from the Connecticut valley, and 

 :fossils from Caiion City Col. and Fossil Wy. for exchange. 



