is one of the things indispensable in our 

 Museum, and one might suppose, would be 

 easily obtained. Yec in our case it is not so. 

 Of the forty or more mammals, only seventeen 

 are respectably represented, such common 

 species as the raccoon, fox, skunk, wood- 

 chuck and chipmunk being wanting. Of 

 the three hundred and fifty birds, the Shurt- 

 leff collection gives us a tolerable full series 

 deficient only in the rarest and most common 

 species. Of the sixty reptiles and amphibi- 

 ans we have but twenty-two. About two 

 hundred species of fishes inhabit our waters 

 vi '.lile only thirty-two species inhabit our 

 alcohol in the museum jars. Of the insects 

 we have, but a tithe, between one and two 

 thousand species, of the spiders and worms 

 almost none, of the crustaceans, twenty out 

 of eighty. Thanks to Dr. Shurtleff, our col- 

 lection of shells is quite complete. So much 

 for the local collection. The vacancies in 

 other departments are quite as appalling. 



Now the students and friends of the col- 

 lege have it in their power to aid materially 

 in the increase of our collections, and that 

 with very little trouble to themselves. 

 There are few persons who will not, during 

 the coming summer, meet with valuable 

 specimens. Let them collect what they find, 

 and the result will be very apparent at the 

 end of the season. Mammals, birds, birds 

 nef ts and eggs, frogs, snakes, salamanders, 

 turtles, fishes, skeletons and bones of every 

 description, especially skulls, insects, "bugs" 

 spiders worms, crabs, star fish, sea anemones, 



