1S8 NEW YORK STATE MfJBEUM 



Ripon college, Ripon. C. Dwight Marsh, professor of Uologif, 

 in charge ; W. S. Leavenworth, professor of chemistry and pTiA/Hes, 

 in charge of mineralogic collection. 



Paleontology. 1000 specimens, mainly from New York and 

 Wisconsin, including one of Prof. Chamberlain's duplicate col- 

 lections made by the Wisconsin geological survey. 



Mineralogy. 2000 specimens forming a fairly complete typical 

 series of mineral species and including the Barber collection of 

 material, chiefly from New England; the Walcott collection, 

 mainly from New Eligland and New York; also a specially good 

 collection of Lake Superior copper ores and Wisconsin iron 

 ores. 



Lithology. Not extensive. 



Zoology, Collections are representative of most divisions of 

 the animal kingdom. The best are those of ecjiinoderms and 

 crustaceans. There is a specially large collection of microscope 

 slides and alcoholic s^pecimens of Copepoda. Some material for 

 exchange. 



Botany. 1500 specimens of phanerogams and ferns. 



Ethnology. A few stone and copper implements from Wiscon- 

 sin. 



University of Wisconsin, Madison. E. A. Brog^, acting presi- 

 dent; William H. Hobbs, mineralogy and petrology; J. Morgan 

 Clements, geology and paleontology; William S. Marshall, zoology; 

 W. S. Miller, vertebrate anatomy; R. A. Harper, botany. The 

 university museums comprise the geologic and mineralogic 

 museum, the biologic museum and herbarium which occupy 

 respectively the second and third floors of the south wing of 

 Science hall. 



Paleontology. Collections include that of the Wisconsin Acad- 

 emy of sciences, arts and letters, containing the type fossils 

 described in the volumes of the first geological survey of Wis- 

 consin; the Powers collection of Wisconsin Silurian fossils; and 

 the systematic collection of fossils and casts of fossil forms 

 belonging to the university. The type fossils of the Wisconsin 

 academy are arranged in a special case in the geologic and 

 mineralogic museum; the other specimens are systematically 

 distributed in a number of cases. 



