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Zoology. 2000 specimens: a nearly complete set of the mam- 

 mals and birds whicli are or within 50 years have been resident 

 in the state; an alcoholic collection of reptiles and batrachians 

 and a small collection of insects found in Vermont; a collection 

 of several hundred Lepidoptera from other parts of New Eng- 

 land and the tropics mounted on Denton tablets; also small 

 but very good collections of corals and mollusks and 100 crania 

 of mammals and birds. 



Botany. 1500 specimens: a set of native plants collected and 

 mounted by Mr 0. G. Pringle. 



Ethnology. 200 specimens: stone, copper and earthenware 

 objects from various localities in the state. 



VIRGINIA 



Emory and Henry college, Emory. Small collections of rocks 

 and minerals. 



Roanoke college, Salem. No report. 



State museum, Virginia military institute, Lexington. Hunter 

 Pendleton, professor of chemistry, and N. B. Tucker, professor of 

 mineralogy and geology, in charge. 



Paleontology. 720 specimens collected from the various geo- 

 logic formations; richest in fossil plants from the Coal Meas- 

 ures, and mollusks of the Tertiary system. 



Mineralogy. 3525 specimens: a general collection of 2350 speci- 

 mens; a fairly complete collection of 1175 Virginia minerals; 

 minerals of the different counties of the state specially the tin, 

 iron and manganese ores from Rockbridge and Augusta coun- 

 ties; also a series of gold and silver ores from the Cripplecreek, 

 Aspen and Leadville districts of Colorado. 



Lithology. 386 specimens: collection illustrating the meta- 

 morphic and igneous rocks of the Appalachian system; also col- 

 lection of rocks illustrating: 1) unaltered sedimentary rock of 

 mechanical origin; 2) unaltered sedimentary rocks of chemical 

 origin; 3) unaltered sedimentary rocks of organic origin; 4) un- 

 altered igneous rocks; 5) metamorphic sedimentary rocks; 

 6) metamorphic igneous rocks; 7) residual rocks. 



Economic geology. Marbles and building stones; collections il- 

 lustrating the products and byproducts of brine; dressed orna- 



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