NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMS 73 



research and teaching, including a chemical laborator}', work- 

 shop equipped with power, room for work with optical instru- 

 ments, drawing room and laboratories for students. 



Comparative zoology. The exhibition space in the sj^noptic 

 department is divided into a series of rooms, 30x40 feet, devoted 

 to systematic collections of typical animals, represented by 

 mounted skins, skeletons, alcoholic and other preparations, with 

 the object of showing the natural relationship of one class of 

 animals with another. There are also collections to illustrate 

 geographic distribution and rooms devoted to faunal collections 

 of Europe, South America, etc., and to the faunal regions of the 

 Atlantic and Pacific oceans. 



The bulk of the collections are stored in trays or drawers 

 systematically arranged so as to afford easy reference and 

 associated w^ith such books and facilities as may be needed for 

 their stud}-. 



There is no information obtainable as to the extent of the 

 collections in this museum. 



Botany. The Botanical collections comprise (1) the Gray 

 Herbarium, containing more than three hundred thousand 

 sheets of mounted specimens. (2) the Cryptogamic Herbarium, 

 and cases for the display of selected specimens to illustrate the 

 principal groups of algae, fungi and lichens. (3) the Economic 

 Museum, having, besides the material for investigation and 

 comparison, exhibition cases filled with specimens illustrating 

 the useful plants and their products. (4) the Ware Collection 

 of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants and Flowers, now^ contain- 

 ing about seven hundred complete specimens of plants in flower, 

 together with about thirty five hundred analytical details. 

 (5) the Paleontological collection. (6) the Botanic Garden and 

 its Greenhouses, together with Botanical Laboratories and a 

 Lecture-room. (7) Botanical Laboratories and Lecture-rooms 

 in the University Museum Building. 



PEABODY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ARCHEOLOGY AND ETHNOLOGY, 



Harvard university. Frederic Ward Putnam, curator and Pea- 

 body professor of American archeology and ethnology; Charles C. 



