NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMS 13^ 



state of Colorado, arranged by counties; a series of its coal, coke 

 and iron products; samples of the massive ores of the various 

 mines in the state and the Dr Ellsner collection of miner- 

 als from all parts of the world. 



Colorado college and Cutler academy, Colorado Springs. No 

 report. 



Colorado scientific society, Boston building, Denver. 



Classdfied oollectiion of minerals, rocks and fo'SisdIs on exhibition 

 daily except Sunday. 



Colorado school of mines. Golden. H. B. Patton, professor of 

 geology and mineralogy, in charge. 



Paleontology. A display collection mainly of fossils, 342 sp:^ci- 

 mens and a miscellaneous collection of 1360 specimens. 



Mineralogy. A display collection of Colorado minerals, 1305 

 specimens; a type collection, 3700 specimens; a supplementary 

 collection of the rarer species, 950 specimens; a working collec- 

 tion of 21,000 specimens; and a crystallographic collection of 

 950 specimens; the R. C. Hills collection of minerals, a collection 

 of the coals of Colorado, Wyoming and New Mexico, 800 hand 

 specimens and slides of Colorado and New Mexico eruptive 

 rocks. Prof. Patton's private collection of 970 specimens is dis- 

 played. 



Historic and economic geology and lithology. A type collection 

 of rocks consisting of a) a general collection 6) a series of Colo- 

 rado rocks, 1800 specimens; a working collection of 17,400 sp?ci- 

 mens and the U. S. geological survey educational series of rocks, 

 156 specimens. Prof. Patton's private collection of 1700 litholo- 

 gic specimens is also exhibited. 



The museum has many specimens to exchange. 



Mining and metallurgy. Excellent set of models of furnaces, 

 mills, crushers, with models of mines, examples of timbering,, 

 etc. 



State agricultural college, Fort Collins. 



The colleotions are in charge of the heads of the several de- 

 partments: W. P. Headden, paleontology and mineralogy; Wendell 



