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partment. The department also contains a large and growing 

 herbarium, as well as collections of fruits, cones, nuts, fibers, a 

 general collection of economic products, and a large number of 

 specimens of the woods of different countries. 



The flora of the region of Ithaca is very rich in species, and 

 presents excellent opportunities for the student of systematic 

 botany, and some facilities in the study of geographic botany. 



Excellent facilities are offered to the students who are fitting 

 themselves for (experiment) economic work in the courses of 

 plant histology and in the study of the fungi. While the labora- 

 tory is distant from the seashore, it is well supplied with ma- 

 terial of the marine algae for morphologic and developmental 

 study of typical forms, and material preserved specially for the 

 purpose is also supplied for investigations in development. 



The collections also include the Auzoux and Brendel models 

 representing the different groups of the plants, and other illus- 

 trative material in the way of charts, maps, etc. 



Archeology. Collections are in a department by themselves. 

 The museum of classical archeology, occupying the first floor of 

 McGraw hall, is composed chiefly of casts representing the his- 

 tory of Greek and Koman sculptural art, but is also supplied 

 with various plans, models, reconstructions, facsimiles of coins, 

 etc. The nucleus of the collection was purchased with a fund of 

 17000 donated for the purpose by the Hon. Henry W. Sage. The 

 instruction in archeology and history of art is given in part in the 

 museum itself. 



There is also a series of several thousand photographs of an- 

 cient ruins and architecture. 



Glen Island museum of natural history. New Rochelle. Lewis M. 

 McOormick, curator. 



Zoology. Specimens comprise: 500 mounted birds, mostly from 

 the state of New York, but including a few brilliant colored tropi- 

 cal birds; 4000 specimens of shells, 200 of corals, 100 of sponges, 

 and a few iskeletons, including a camel's and ibex's, and one of 

 the three skulls of the Atlantic right whale preserved in this 

 country; also in the zoologic garden, several hundred specimens 

 of birds and animals confined in cages. 



