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Pennsylvania state college, State College. The collections are 

 not united as a museum, but each technical department has a 

 collection which is in charge of the head of the depart- 

 ment. M. E. Wadsworth, professor of mming and geology; 

 N. W. Shed, assistant in mining and metallurgy ; AV. A. Buckhout, 

 jjrofessor of botany; H. A. Surface, professor of zoology ; H. P. 

 Armsbj, professor of agriculture; and G. G. Pond, professor of 

 ohemistry. 



Paleontology. 2000 specimens: the Ward collection represent- 

 ing all geologic formations; Corniferous fossils from Columbus 

 O.; specimens from the Cincinnati group of southeastern 

 Indiana, from the Niagara group of Waldron Ind. and from the 

 Subcarboniferous limestone of Indiana; fossil leaves from the 

 Cretaceous formations of Dakota; material from the Trenton and 

 Hudson river groups about State College Pa., and from the 

 Coal Measures of Allegany Pa. 



Mineralogy. 10,000 specimens: a large exhibition collection; 

 a series illustrating physical properties, crystallization, etc., for 

 the use of students. 



Historic geology. A general stratigraphic series; the material 

 eollected by the first and second geologic surveys of Pennsyl- 

 vania. 



Lithology. A series of European rocks; rocl^s of the state; and 

 a set of the United States geological survey collection of 200 

 rock types. 



Economic geology. 5000 specimens: the Pennsylvania exhibit 

 of ores, minerals and economic products at the World's Colum- 

 bian exposition; a polylith of 281 building stones of Pennsyl- 

 vania and elsewhere; special collections of ores and ore-bearing 

 rocks from Colorado and iron ores from the Lake Superior 

 region; a general collection of economic minerals and rocks 

 from Germany. 



Zoology. 15,000 specimens: a general collection of 10,000 

 specimens; a special series of Pennsylvania vertebrates, a 

 nearly complete representation; a special collection of insects 

 showing their various stages of development and their work. 



Botany. A herbarium of 4000 phanerogams, a series of 1500 

 epecies of seeds; specimens- of woods of Pennsylvania from the 

 state forestry exhibit at the World's Columbian exposition. 



