PTATUHAL HISTORY MUSETJMS 183 



WASHINGTON 



Ferry museum, Tacoma. Meriden S. Hill, secretary, in charge. 



Paleontology. 150 specimens. 



Mineralogy. 250 specimens. 



Historic geology and lithology. 50 specimens. 



Zoology. 50 specimens. 



Ethnology. 200 specimens. Also large collections of paint- 

 ings, etchings, engravings, photographs, old books, armor, coins, 

 statuary, curios and articles of virtu. 



State agricultural college, I'ullman. C. Y. Piper, professor of 

 hotaiiy and zoology; Solon Shedd^ professor of geology and 

 mmeralogy ; R. H. Snodgrass, assistant professor (entomology); 

 H. S. Davis, assistant in vertebrate zoology; R. K. Beattie, assistant. 



Paleontology. 1000 specimens, general study collection. 



Mineinlogy. 800 specimens. 



Lithology. 600 rocks. 



Zoology. 5000 specimens of mammals, birds, mollusks, 

 echinoderms, etc. 100,000 insects. Insects and mollusks for 

 exchange. 



Botany. Herbarium contains 40^000 sheets of phanerogams 

 and pteridophytes, 2500 bryophytes, 5000 fungi, 200 algae. 

 Phanerogams, bryophytes and fungi for exchange. 



Ethnology. 500 specimens stone implements, etc. There are 

 also collections illustrating agriculture, horticulture and 

 veterinary science, pathologic and anatomic specimens. 



Tacoma academy of science, Tacoma. Museum in charge of the 

 secretary, Meriden S. Hill, who is also secretary of the Ferry 

 museum. 



Geology. 500 specimens. 



Ethnology. 1000 specimens. 



University of Washington museum, Seattle. Henry Landes, 

 state geolog'ist, in charge. 



Paleontology. 2000 specimens of invertebrate fossils from 

 Silurian formations; 1500 specimens of miscellaneous material 

 derived from A^arious sources, including the skull of an Alaska 

 bison, etc. Specimens of Cretaceous and Tertiary invertebrates 

 and plants from the Coal series for exchange. 



