UNITED STATES 



ALABAMA 



Alabama polytechnic institute museum, Auburn. P. H. Mell, 

 director state experiment station in charge; G. F. Boyd^ assistant. 

 The fire that destroyed the main building in 1887, swept away 

 the museum which contained a very full representation of all 

 branches of science and was one of the best in the south. 



Paleontology. Several hundred specimens representing several 

 formations including the Claiborne of this state; a small collec- 

 tion of fossils from the Paris basin representing to some extent 

 the different formations. 



Mineralogy. 600 specimens. 



Historic and economic geology and lithology. 100 specimens. 



Zoology. 75 specimens, a few representing the local fauna. 



Botany. 40,134 specimens: 16,950 fungi; 1006 lichens; 588 

 algae; 20,606 flowering plants. 



Ethnology and anthropology. A few specimens. 



Geological survey of Alabama, University. Eugene A. Smith, 

 state geologist; Henry McCalley, assistant. 



Geology and paleontology. About 75,000 specimens comprising 

 about 15,000 catalogue titles : three fourths illustrative of Ala- 

 bama geology, and the remainder of a general nature. 



Mineralogy. 4800 specimens. 



Zoology. 8100 specimens: 900 skins of Alabama birds; 200 

 fishes and other marine forms; and 7000 recent shells. 



Botany. 4300 Alabama plants, flowering plants and crypto- 

 gams about equally represented: 1000 foreign plants mostly 

 cryptogams. 



Ethnology. 435 relics of North American Indians. 



Total. 26,000 entry titles, and 94,000 specimens. 



Howard college, East Lake. No report. 



Southern university, Greensboro. 

 Small general collection. 



