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Botany. 7200 specimens: a herbarium of phanerogams, in- 

 cluding native forms and many from foreign localities. 



Ethnology and anthropology. Indian implements and pottery; 

 coins; a number of models, casts, and engraved tablets from 

 ancient Egypt. 



Union college natural history museum, Schenectady. James H. 

 Stoller, professor of biology and geology, in charge. 



Paleontology. 3000 specimens: fossils mostly from the Paleo- 

 zoic formations of New York and the Carboniferous and Per- 

 mian formations of Kansas and Nebraska; type specimens from 

 the Permian of Kansas. 



Mineralogy. The Wheatley collection of about 4000 specimens 

 of general distribution; small collections aggregating 500 speci- 

 mens from different parts of the United States. 



Historic geology and Uthology. 1500 specimens from various 

 localities. 



Zoology. 14,177 specimens: species, 25 mammals; 300 birds; 

 100 reptiles; 20 amphibians; 150 fishes; 50 alcoholic examples of 

 mollusks; the Webster collection of worms, 1950 specimens; 

 375 insects; 400 crustaceans; 352 echinoderms; 125 corals; 60 

 sponges; 2270 mollusks and molluscoids; the Wheatley collec- 

 tion of shells, numbering 8000 specimens. 



Botany. 10,000 specimens, many exotic, arranged according 

 to Engler & PrantFs Pflanzenfamihi&n. The local collections are 

 very complete, specially the ferns and their allies of Schenectady 

 county. There is also a valuable collection, 2300 specimens of 

 fungi, the gift of Mr J. B. Ellis. 



University of Rochester, Rochester. H. L. Fairchild, curator of 

 geology; Charles Wright Dodge, curator of zoology. 



Paleontology. The collection contains about 8000 species of 

 European fossils besides those from America, altogether repre- 

 sented by about 25,000 specimens. It is particularly rich in am- 

 monites and Tertiary mollusks. 



On top of the paleontologic cases, and on the walls above them, 

 is a series of models representing in facsimile many of the most 

 celebrated fossils. There are also a number of casts, including 

 a megatherium, three species of Proboscidea, an armadillo, and 



