74 DIRECTORY OF AMERICAN MUSEUMS 



history museum is supported by an annual state appropriation of 

 $2000, supplemented for 1910 by a university appropriation of $4000 

 to cover cost of moving and installation. This museum is open free 

 to the public on week-days from 7 to 6. 



Agriculture. The agricultural departments maintain collec- 

 tions illustrating their work, prominent among which are those show- 

 ing typical specimens of standard varieties of corn; wax models of 

 fruits and vegetables; an extensive horticultural herbarium; speci- 

 mens of live stock; a collection of farm machinery; and material 

 il ustrating the progress of investigations. 



Art. The University Art Gallery is the gift of citizens of Cham- 

 paign and Urbana and is devoted primarily to a collection of models 

 for art students. It comprises 13 full-size casts of celebrated statues, 

 40 statues of reduced size, and a large number of busts and bas-reliefs 

 making in all over 400 pieces. There are also hundreds of large auto- 

 types, photographs, and fine engravings, representing many of the 

 great masterpieces of painting of nearly all the modern schools; and 

 a gallery of historical portraits, mostly large French lithographs, 

 copied from the national portrait galleries of France. There are also a 

 number of casts of ornaments from the Alhambra and other Spanish 

 buildings presented by the Spanish government; a set of casts illus- 

 trating German renaissance ornament; a series of art works from the 

 Columbian Exposition; and miscellaneous casts, models, prints, and 

 drawings. 



Botany. A herbarium of about 65,000 mounted plants, including 

 a practically complete series of the indigenous flowering plants of 

 Illinois, a fair representation of the flora of North America, and a 

 considerable collection of foreign species. There are about 32,000 

 named specimens of fungi. 



Commerce and Industry. A general working collection given 

 by the Philadelphia Commercial Museums. 



Engineering. Extensive teaching collections, including speci- 

 mens of material; samples, casts, and drawings of construction; lan- 

 tern slides, books, and pamphlets; etc., are housed in various rooms in 

 Engineering Hall. 



Geology. A synoptic collection of 9000 specimens of rocks; 1000 

 thin sections of rocks and minerals; a series of ornamental building 

 stones; a stratigraphic collection to illustrate Illinois geology; and 

 a collection of 104 samples of Illinois soils. The mineral collection 

 includes over 12,000 minerals, ores, etc.; 575 crystal models; and a 

 considerable collection of gems and precious stones. 



