NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMS 121 



county, N. Y. ; the Barlow collection of 13,000 entomologic speci- 

 mens to which Judge Barlow has added valuable collections in 

 ornithology and comparative anatomy; a series of 391 Japanese 

 insects. 



Botany. 3354 flowering plants and 395 ferns; a collection from 

 China; Sartwell herbarium, the result of 50 years' work in botany, 

 containing 8000 specimens of plants cured, labeled and classified 

 in 62 volumes, and including 451 mosses, 226 lichens, 342 sea- 

 weeds, 600 fungi, 575 ferns, 314 grasses, 200 Ericaceae. 



Hobart college museum, Geneva. As the chair of geology is 

 vacant at present, the museum is in charge of Herbert R. Moody, 

 professor of Gliemistry . 



The palecntologic, geologic and mineralogic equipment com- 

 prises many thousands of specimens and many duplicates, but 

 no catalogues are available at present. 



Paleontology. Representative collection of the New York ter- 

 ranes; a nearly comiplete set of Ward's casts of vertebrate fossils; 

 the original of Ward's cast ofCastoroides ohioensis. 



The collections in the departments of natural history and in 

 ethnology are representative, but are in need of better facilities 

 for exhibition. 



Long Island historical society museum, Brooklyn. The office of 

 curator vacant. Mary E. Ingalls, assistant curator, in charge. 



Paleontology. 892 specimens : chiefly from New York state, and 

 donated by the state geologic survey. 



Mineralogy. A few hundred specimens, chiefly from New York 

 state. 



Historic geology. A series of 746 specimens of rocks, sands and 

 clays fro^m the glacial drift of Long Island; 148 of the rocks of 

 Manhattan Island; charts of the rocks cut through in boring for 

 the piers of the Brooklyn bridge, and for wells at Jericho L. I., 

 College Point L. I. and W^oodruff's pier, Brooklyn; cores from 

 diamond drill borings at Hunters point, foot of Atlantic avenue, 

 Brooklyn, and off the Battery point. New York city; 10 speci- 

 mens from a well at Jericho L. I.; 5 from a well of the Nassau 

 gaslight CO., Brooklyn; 47 from Barnum's island. East Rocka- 

 way bay; 6 from Calvary cemetery, Laurel Hill Brooklyn; 5 

 from Fort Lafayette; 50 from Woodhaven L. I.; 30 from the 



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