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EAST SIDE HIGH SCHOOL. 



This school maintains an educational museum in charge of G. 

 L. Cannon and Ellsworth Bethel, instructors in biology. The collec- 

 tions comprise about 10,000 specimens, chiefly Colorado material, 

 including rocks, minerals, fossils, plants, birds, marine invertebrates, 

 and archeological material. This collection is located on the upper 

 floor of the school building and is open to the public during school 

 hours. 



STATE BOARD OF HORTICULTURE. 



This board maintains a small museum in its rooms in the base- 

 ment of the capitol building, in charge of Mrs. Martha Shute, assis- 

 tant secretary. The collections include agricultural and horticultural 

 products of Colorado; exhibits of injurious insects; and native flower- 

 ing plants. 



STATE BUREAU OF MINES. 



The bureau maintains in the capitol a collection of the minerals 

 and ores of the state, arranged by counties ; a general series of economic 

 minerals and mineral products ; the Ellsner collection of minerals from 

 all parts of the world. 



STATE HISTORICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 



This society maintains extensive collections in ethnology, zoology, 

 paleontology, and botany, as well as many objects identified with the 

 pioneer period in the history of the state. 



The department of ethnology includes over 4000 articles from the 

 cliff dwellings. The collections in ornithology include nearly 500 

 mounts and about 2 100 skins of Colorado birds. In other branches of 

 zoology there is a good representation of Colorado mammals, together 

 with some 8000 local insects and about 7500 marine and fresh- water 

 invertebrates. In paleontology there is a large collection of fossils 

 from the Florissant beds. The herbarium comprises the Ellsworth 

 Bethel botanical collection of 20,000 specimens, rich in cryptogamic 

 material, especially fungi. 



The museum is housed in the rooms of the society in the state 

 capitol, and was opened to the public in 1 906. It is supported by funds 

 appropriated by the General Assembly, and is administered for the 

 benefit of the general public under the charge of Jerome C. Smiley, 

 curator, and Horace G. Smith, assistant. 



The society maintains a library of about 30,000 books, pam- 

 phlets, files of newspapers, etc., including the Edward B. Morgan collec- 

 tion of Colorado material. 



