NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMS 75 



Leominster public museum, Leominster. E. G. Davis, curator. 



Paleontology. 50 specimens: fossils from various formations. 



Mineralogy. 700 specimens: some interesting quartz crystals; 

 ores and chalcedony from Colorado. 



lA'thology. Specimens of local granites, schists and slates. 



Economic geology. Building stones, ores of precious metals, 

 clays and grits. 



Historic geology. A series of specimens and photographs illus- 

 trafing the effects of the glacial period on topography. 



Zoology. 200 specimens: a series of the local mammals and 

 birds; a collection of marine shells. 



Botany. 710 specimens, illustrating the local flora, ferns of 

 Ceylon, and algae. 



Massachusetts agricultural college, Amherst. R. S. Lull, curator 

 of museum of zoology; G. E. Stone, m charge of hotanic museum; 

 H. T. Fernald, in charge of entomologic collection; S. F. Howard, 

 m charge of mineralogic collection; J. B. Paige, m charge of veter- 

 inary museum. 



Paleontology. About 300 specimens consisting of a small col- 

 lection of invertebrate fossils for illustration in geological in- 

 struction. 



Mineralogy. About 225 minerals representing groups desig- 

 nated by Dana and duplicates for use in determinative mineral- 

 ogy. 



Historic and economic geology and lithology. SoilS' and rocks of 

 the state collected by Edward Hitchcock and catalogued in the 

 Report on the agriculture of Massachusetts for 1858. Of the 2900 

 specimens which passed through a fire in 1885, 2600 have been 

 identified and classified by Dr E. R. Flint. 



Zoology. 9000 specimens consisting of a representative col- 

 lection of invertebrates (not including insects) and a series of 

 mounted mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fishes, both 

 skins and skeletons, besides numerous alcoholic specimens of 

 the three lower classes. 



Entomology. 30,000 specimens including all orders of insects 

 and such other terrestrial arthropods as are of economic im- 



