NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMS 15. 



a fairly complete set of invertebrates, both alcoholic and dry 

 specimens; besides 1000 microscope slides in zoology, embry- 

 ology and histology. This material is reserved for class use 

 almost exclusively, and to give thorough training in laboratory 

 work. 



Botany. 4000 herbarium specimens : a large amount of alcoholic 

 material, representing all groups of plants, for laboratory use; 

 many West Indian, west American and Mediterranean algae; a 

 good selection of microscope slides, specially of rare material in 

 anatomy and cytology. 



University of Denver, Denver. 



No report. 



CONNECTICUT 



Connecticut agricultural college, Storrs. Rufus W. Stimson in^ 

 charge. 



Paleontology. 500 specimens. 



Mineralogy. 700 specimens. 



Historic amd economic geology and lithology. 900 specimens. 



Zoology. 10,000 specimens: representing nearly every group 

 of the animal kingdom. 50 to 75 species of marine invertebrates 

 to exchange for Devonian and other fossils. 



Botany. 1500 specimens : general flora of Connecticut. 



Ethnology. 75 specimens: Indian implements. 



Peabody museum of natural history, Yale university, New Haven. 

 Charles E, Beecher, curator in geology and paleontology ; Addison 

 E. Verrill, zoology; Edward S. Dana, mineralogy; George F. 

 Eaton, osteology. 



Paleontology. The very extensive invertebrate collections are 

 arranged zoologically. There are some fine, large slabs contain- 

 ing fossils, on exhibition; also type collections showing the 

 development, structure and classification of trilobites and 

 brachiopods. 



The vertebrate possessions include many of the finest speci- 

 mens ever collected: collections made by Prof. Marshy of verte- 

 brate fossils from the Rocky mountain region and other parts 

 of the west; specimens of toothed birds, mainly Hesperornis and 



