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Zoology. 325 specimens: birds and mammals with nests and 

 eggs. Also a collection of insects injurious to forests, pre- 

 pared by Dr John B. Smith of Eutgers college for exhibition at 

 the Pan-American exposition. 



Botany. Collection kept at Kutgers college. A new collec- 

 tion of New Jersey woods is being made, which contains now 100 

 specimens intended as an educational exhibit. It includes the 

 leaves, flowers and fruit of the trees. 



Ethno^hgy and anthropology. A small collection of Indian relics. 



Princeton university museums, Princeton. William Libbey, pro- 

 fessor of physical geography and director of the E. M. museum of 

 geology and arclwalogy ; Arnold E. Ortmann, curator of viwertehrate 

 paleontoibogy ; Marcus S. Farr, curator of vertebrate paleontology ; 

 Henry B. Cornwall, professor of applied chemistry and min&t^alogy 

 and director of mineralogicai cahi/net; Alexander H. Phillips, 

 assistant professor of mineralogy; George Macloskie, professor of 

 hiology and director of the John C. Green school of science, hioHogical 

 museum; Walter M. Rankin, assistant professor of hiology and 

 curator of the zoological museum; Allan Marquand, professor of 

 archeology and history of art and director of the museum of 

 historic art. 



Pahontology. 15,000 species: skeletons of a mastodon, Irish 

 elk, cave bear and some of the extinct birds of New Zealand; a 

 skull of the Uintatherium and a remarkably complete skeleton of 

 Cervalces; mounted casts of the gigantic reptiles and mam- 

 mals of the Secondary, Tertiary and Quaternary ages; a very 

 perfect collection of vertebrate and invertebrate fossils from Eu- 

 rope and America illustrating the principal organic forms of all 

 the geolog-ic epochs; fine Eocene, Oligocene and Miocene foissils, 

 many of which are type specimens, procured in the west by the 

 various collecting parties from the university; a series of fossil 

 plants from Colorado', many of which are type specimeuis. The 

 typical fossils selected agree, so far as possible, with those men- 

 tioned in Dana's Geology as characteristic of different geologic 

 periods. 



