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Library Economy. An exhibit of library methods and adminis- 

 tration prepared by the library school. 



Paleontology. 49,000 representative fossils, including the A. H. 

 Worthen collection with 742 type specimens; the Tyler, McWhorter, 

 and Hertzer collections; the greater part of the collections made by 

 the geological survey of the state under Worthen; 200 thin sections of 

 corals; the Ward collection of casts; and a number of special collec- 

 tions representing the fauna and flora of particular groups. 



Pedagogy. Illustrative material from manual training depart- 

 ments of various schools; photographs of school buildings; drawings 

 and constructive work by public school pupils; and the nucleus of a 

 representative collection of apparatus for the school laboratory. This 

 collection is in University Hall. 



Zoology. Shells, 2ooo± species; Insects, the Bolter collection of 

 120,000 specimens, representing over 16,000 species; Other inverte- 

 brates, many alcoholics, large series of Blaschka models, etc. ; Fishes, 

 about 300 species in alcohol, and 75 casts; Batrachians and reptiles, 

 not enumerated; Birds, practically complete series of Illinois 

 species, and about 125 foreign species; Mammals, a series of rumi- 

 nants of the United States, with representatives of other orders. 



INDIANA 



BLOOMINGTON: 



INDIANA UNIVERSITY. 



No reply has been received to repeated requests for information 

 regarding the teaching collections of the university. The university 

 catalog shows that there is no general museum and that the most 

 important of the departmental collections are the Eigenmann collec- 

 tion of several thousand species of fishes and a collection of un worked 

 paleontological material especially rich in young stages of brachio- 

 pods and bryozoans. 



CENTERVILLE: 



WAYNE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 



The secretary reports that a museum is maintained in charge of 

 Caleb King, curator. No reply has been received to repeated requests 

 for further information. 



CRAWFORD SVILLE : 



WABASH COLLEGE. Hovey Museum. 



Staff. Curator, Mason D. Thomas. 



Anthropology. 6000 specimens, chiefly relics of American 

 Indians and the mound builders. 



