68 DIRECTORY OF AMERICAN MUSEUMS 



Publications. Contributions from the Walker Museum, 7 

 numbers of the first volume issued. These are reprints of paleontologi- 

 cal papers published in the "Journal of Geology." 



Attendance. Open free to the public on week-days. No 

 statistics of attendance, which is confined chiefly to students of the 

 university. 



ZOOLOGICAL PARK. 



The city maintains a zoological park of 20 acres, established in 

 1868, containing 15 reptiles, 643 birds, and 436 mammals. 



DECATUR: 



JAMES MILLIKEN UNIVERSITY— DECATUR COLLEGE. 



The college has a small art museum used primarily for teaching 

 purposes in the School of Applied and Fine Arts. It also has a biologi- 

 cal and geological collection of about 3000 specimens in connection 

 with the School of Liberal Arts; and small museums in connection with 

 the departments of domestic science and art, engineering, and com- 

 merce and finance. 



ELGIN: 



ELGIN SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY. 



The secretary reports that the society maintains a museum, but 

 no reply has been received to repeated requests for further informa- 

 tion regarding the collections, which are said by Merrill to consist 

 principally of local geological specimens, with a limited amount 

 from Colorado, California, and elsewhere, and a collection of shells 

 and corals. 



EVANSTON: 



EVANSTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 



The society maintains in connection with its library of 2000 books 

 and pamphlets dealing with local and northwestern history, a collec- 

 tion of historical relics, maps, charts, pictures, photographs, etc., 

 which is housed in the society's rooms in the public library building, 

 and is open to the public during library hours, from 9 to 9. 



NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY-COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS. 



The college has a museum which was said by a former curator to 

 contain 3000 fossils; 22,000 minerals and rocks; 28,000 specimens in 

 zoology, including 3000 birds, 700 reptiles and batrachians, 900 fishes 

 and 1 8,000 shells ; a herbarium of 20,000 specimens ; and 8000 specimens, 



