34 DIRECTORY OF AMERICAN MUSEUMS 



WAR RELIC DEPARTMENT. 



This department maintains a museum, in charge of W. W. Fer- 

 guson, custodian. The collections include over 3000 articles of histori- 

 cal interest, housed at present in the state house, but soon to be 

 removed to a new building in course of erection in May, 19 10. The nu- 

 cleus of the museum is a collection made by Cecil A. Deane, and trans- 

 ferred in 1895 to the state. Admission is free, and the attendance has 

 been estimated at 50,000 a year. 



ZOOLOGICAL PARK. 



The city maintains a zoological park, established in 1897, con- 

 taining 200 birds and 155 mammals. 



FORT COLLINS: 



STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. Museum. 



The collections, which are rich in local material, are in charge of 

 the heads of the several departments and comprise a small collection 

 in ethnology; 7000 botanical specimens, including 1000 species of 

 Colorado phanerogams and 300 species of Colorado fungi; small working 

 collections of minerals and rocks, and about 1000 specimens of ores; 

 550 specimens in paleontology; and an extensive zoological collection, 

 including 2000 shells, 80,000 insects, 500 other invertebrates, 20 fishes, 

 50 batrachians, 75 reptiles, 1200 birds, and 125 mammals. 



GOLDEN: 



COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES. Mineralogical Museum. 



This museum is in charge of H. B. Patton, professor of geology 

 and mineralogy and, although used primarily for instruction, is open 

 free- to the public. 



Colli. r 1 eons. Minerals: a synoptic collection of 370; a working 

 collection of 2i.ooo±; a display collection of 1305; a supplementary 

 collection of 050; the Patton collection of 970; and a crystal collection 

 of 1S00. Rocks: a synoptic collection of 1800; a working collection of 

 748; a United States geological survey educational series of 156; and 

 the Patton collection of 1700. Fossils: a display collection of 342; 

 and a miscellaneous collection of 1360. Many of the Colorado min- 

 erals are of special interest, more particularly the zeolites of Table 

 Mountain, Golden. 



The school also possesses a museum of applied chemistry, including 

 mounted specimens of raw materials, main products, by-products, 

 and waste products of the various branches of technical chemistry and 

 metallurgy, and a metallurgical collection of models illustrating the 

 best types of furnaces in this and other countries. 



