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dred lantern slides. The collection of meteorites is one of high 

 rank. 



Zoology. 275,000 specimens: the reference and exhibition col- 

 lections of dried and alcoholic specimens; entire and dissected 

 specimens; sections, skeletons; models and skins; special collec- 

 tion of the birds, fishes, insects and mollusks of Minnesota. 



The plan is to make the museum representative of the state 

 and contemplates as full a representation of the entire fauna as 

 possible, while extralimital material is added merely for com- 

 pleteness of illustration. The plan is to make the collection a» 

 complete as possible and afford facilities for students and 

 investigators. 



Botany. A herbarium of 325,000 dried specimens; 2000 jars of 

 alcoholic and formalin material; 200 specimens of woods; 5000 

 plant portraits. 



Minnesota species of Spermatophyta,Pteridophyta,Bryophyta, 

 Algae, Fungi, and photographs of the same are always on hand 

 for exchange. An exchange bureau is maintained, and the 

 curator is in communication with hundreds of American and 

 foreign collectors. 



MISSISSIPPI 



Millsaps college museum, Jackson. A. M. Muckenfuss, professor 

 of cJiemistty and physics, in charge. 



The collections are not large, and are used only for illustra- 

 tive purposes.. There is a small collection of local fossils. 



Mississippi agricultural and mechanical college. Agricultural Ool^ 

 lege. Glenn W. Herrick, professor of biology, in charge. 



Historic and economic geology and Uthology. 500 specimens. 



Zoology. 10,000 specimens of insects; 70 specimens of inverte- 

 brates presented by the Smithsonian institution; a few fishes ;^ 

 fairly good collection of birds eggs. 



Botany. A station (experiment) herbarium of 2000 phanero- 

 gams; a college herbarium of 2000 specimens; a station herba- 

 rium of 2000 fungi mostly parasitic. 



