1)4 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



Zoology. 250 specimens of mammals and birds; 200 fishes, am- 

 phibians and reptiles; 500 shells; and 200 marine and fresh- 

 water invertebrates. 



Botany. 2500 specimens : chiefly illustrative . of Nebraska 

 phanerogiam,^, but represent forms from other states and Eu- 

 rope. 



EthmMogy. 150 specimens of implements, utenisils, etc., of the 

 American Indians and of African tribes. 



Nebraska Wesleyan university, University Place. No report. 



University of Nebraska state museum, Lincoln. Erwin H. Bar- 

 bour, acting state geologist, curator. 



Owing to lack of available space for exhibition purposes, the 

 museum is not at present well arranged. Some valuable col- 

 lections, chiefly of geologic and paleontologic material, have been 

 obtained by class excursions from the university. 35,000 speci- 

 mens have been added during the past three yearis by the state 

 geological survey, being obtained chiefly from the Carboniferous 

 and Dakota Cretaceous of Nebraska and* surrounding states. 



The archeologic, ethnologic, paleontologic and forestry collec- 

 tions are valued at |50,000. Among the geologic material is a 

 set of specimens of the core of a test well some 2500 feet in 

 depth, bored near Lincoln. 



The present museum is so overcrowded that arrangements 

 have been made to store everything in fireproof buildings down 

 town till a new museum can be built. 



NEVADA 



State university, Reno. No report. 



NEW HAMPSHIRE 



Dartmouth college, Butterfield museum, Hanover. The collec- 

 tions are in charge of the heads of the respective departments: 

 C. H. Hitchcock, geology, curator of museum; William Patten, 

 zoology ; and G. R. Lyman, hotany. 



Paleontology. Collections are mostly incorporated with those 

 illustrating historic geology. They include one of the James 



