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pologic material is at present stored in boxes for want of room 

 for their proper display. 



There are also in this museum specimens illustrating various 

 industries of Nova Scotia; numismatic collection (ancient and 

 modern coins and casts) with descriptive manuscript cata- 

 logues; some local historic specimens; and a few oil portraits of 

 merit. Connected with the museum is the Provincial science 

 library. 



ONTAEIO 



Geological survey of Canada, Ottawa. Eobert Bell, acting 

 Mreotor. 



The most complete collection known of specimens illustrative 

 of Canadian geology, zoology, botany, archeology and ethnology. 



Paleontology. 16,000 Canadian specimens classified and ex- 

 hibited, representing 4600 species, 1000 of which are types de- 

 scribed by E. Billings, and about 400 types described by J. F. 

 Whiteaves ; a number of types of Cretaceous and Tertiary plants 

 described by Sir J. William Dawson; Cretaceous vertebrates 

 described by Prof. H. I. Osborn and Lawrence M. Lambe; also 

 types of species established by Prof. E. D. Cope, Dr S. H. Scud- 

 der, Prof. T. Rupert Jones, A. H. Foord, Prof. H. A. Nicholson, 

 E. O. Ulrich, W. R. Billings and others; unique collection of 

 Ordovician crinoids, etc., from Ottawa and vicinity; Devonian 

 fishes from the Bay of Chaleurs ; original specimens of E o z o o n 

 c a n a d e n s e . 



Mineralogy and lithology. 7000 Canadian specimens catalogued 

 and on exhibition; Madoc and Thurlow meteorites. 



Zoology. Representative specimens of nearly all the known 

 birds and mammals of Canada. 



Botany. The most complete herbarium extant of Canadian 

 plants. A collection of the woods of Canada and of photo- 

 graphs of her forest trees. 



Hamilton scientific association, Hamilton. The association has 

 some interesting local fossils. 



Kingston school of mining, Kingston. The museum is in charge 

 of the several professors of geology and mineralogy. 



Paleontology. The collection of Canadian fossils which was 

 exhibited at the World's Columbian exposition by the geologic 



