NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMS 67 



Lithology. 5000 specimens. Series of clays, etc., representing 

 the lithology of the Potomac group. Crystalline schists and 

 igneous rocks of the Piedmont highlands of Maryland. United 

 States geological survey educational series, etc. 



Gabbro, gabbro diorite, Websterite, Iherzolite, etc., described 

 by Williams from Baltimore county for exchange. 



Zoology, 20,000 specimens. General systematic series; col- 

 lections of mounted and unmounted mammals and birds; a large 

 colleotion of North American birds eggs, collections of mollusks, 

 echinoderms and coelenterates, and a large collection of Ameri- 

 can and foreign lepidoptera. 



Botany. 25,000 specimens, including the Edward Rowland, 

 the Lotzy, the Humphrey and the Metcalf herbariums. 



Ethnology and anthropoihgy. 3000 specimens of American 

 Indian remains from many localities. The local collections are 

 very extensive. There is also a good lot of Egyptian and Baby- 

 lonian material and a fine series of Mexican objects, including a 

 series of casts of heads of native Mexicans. 



The museum also contains sections of fine arts and collections 

 of numismatics, archeologic and historic objects. The philo- 

 sophical society holding monthly gatherings is under its 

 auspices. Series of public lectures are given during the winter, 



MASSAOHUSETTS 



Amherst college, Amherst. 1 woods cabinet. B. K. Emerson 

 in charge. 



Paleontology. 20,000 specimens, constituting a good general 

 representation of the American formations, and best represent- 

 ing the Triassic of the Connecticut valley. There is also an 

 exceptionally full series of vertebrate fossils from the southern 

 Pleistocene formations; a general collection of foreign ma- 

 terial; and a unique series of Carboniferous fishes from Scot- 

 land. Considerable material for exchange. 



Mineralogy. The Shepard mineralogic collection includes 

 10,000 specimens of a general nature, while the collections of 

 rutile from Massachusetts and the southern Appalachian region, 



