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Financial Support. By appropriations from the board of trustees 

 of the university. There is, however, no regular appropriation and no 

 fund of any kind for the acquirement of new material. About $2500 

 is derived annually from admission fees. 



Building. Erected in 1S91-1906 by Mrs. J. L. Stanford at a 

 cost of $1,200,000. It provides 200,000 square feet of floor space 

 available for exhibition, and 90,000 available for offices, workrooms, 

 etc. 



Administration. By a curator, responsible first to the chairman 

 of the museum committee, second, to the president of the board of 

 trustees, third, to the board of trustees. The museum is not under the 

 departments of instruction of the university. 



Scope. Maintained primarily for the instruction of the general 

 public. 



Library. The museum has access to the university library but 

 has practically no library of its own. Nearly all of the books used 

 at the museum are the personal property of the curator. 



Publications. A number of small handbooks describing the 

 collections has been issued in the past. The annual report to the 

 trustees is not printed for distribution. 



Attendance. Admission fee, 25 cents to all except members of 

 the faculty of Stanford University. University students are admitted 

 free on Saturdays. Up to 1906 the average paid admissions were 1 2,000 

 a year, with an additional free list of 20,000. 



LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY. 



The university maintains teaching collections in connection with 

 the departments of instruction as follows: 



Botany. Herbaria, consisting largely of plants collected in western 

 America and including considerable donations from the National 

 Herbarium, the California Academy of Sciences, J. W. Congdon of 

 Mariposa, and others. The private collections of flowering plants 

 and fungi belonging to the head of the department are also avail- 

 able. 



Geology and Paleontology. In addition to its general teach- 

 ing collections, this department is to receive the geological collections 

 of the Leland Stanford Junior Museum. 



Zoology. A very full representation of the fishes of North 

 America; a valuable series of deep-water fishes of the Pacific; large col- 

 lections of fishes from the West Indies, Hawaiian Islands, Bering 

 Sea, Japan, the coasts of Mexico and Central America, and the 



