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Minnesota geological and natural history survey, Minneapolis, 

 N. H. Winchell, state geologist. 



Collections are in the custody of the University of Minnesota 

 at Minneapolis and are described with the other collections of 

 that university. 



The geologic survey was concluded early in 1901. The publi- 

 cations remaining on hand were turned over to the general 

 library of the University of Minnesota, William W. Folwell, 

 libraiuan. Work in botany proceeds under the charge of Con- 

 way MacMillan and in zoology under Henry F. Nachtrieb, both 

 of the same university. 



University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. This institution has no 

 distinctively university museum. It is however, charged with 

 the care of the museum to be created by the geologic and 

 natural history survey. The departments of zoology and botany 

 have stud}^ collections which are not considered separate from 

 the collections of the museum embraced under the geologic and 

 natural history survey, and the heads of the departments are 

 in charge of their respective collections. Conway MacMillan, 

 professor of botany; C. W. Hall, professor of geology and miner- 

 alogy; Henry F. Nachtrieb, professor of zoology. 



Paleontology. Geologic survey: over 9700 entries with many 

 duplicates embracing 2000 fossils. For study, 2500 fossils and a 

 fairly complete set of Ward's casts of fossils; the Sardeson col- 

 lection of Paleozoic fossils which consists of a series of 32,500 

 specimens under 2500 entries." The collection of vertebrate 

 fossils is begun, the anthropologic series number 300 entries. 



Geology and mineralogy. Geologic survey; over 9700 entries 

 with many duplicates embracing: 5700 rocks; 2000 minerals; 

 1500 thin sections of rocks and fossils; an extensive series of 

 photographs and negatives representing geologic formations, 

 physiographic features and microphotographs. Also for study 

 50(^0 rocks, 1400 thin sections of minerals and rocks; 6000 

 minerals, including the Kunz systematic collection; 2000 com- 

 prised in systematic collection; 3400 in reference collection; 1000 

 crystal forms; 2000 photographs; 500 negatives and several hun- 



