82 DIRECTORY OF AMERICAN MUSEUMS 



contains a general museum including natural history specimens and 

 articles of interest in connection with local and masonic history. 



COLLEGE SPRINGS: 



AMITY COLLEGE. 



The college maintains in connection with the biological laboratory, 

 and in charge of the instructor in biology, collections including about 

 200 specimens of wood from Page County; 30 kinds of minerals and 

 150-200 kinds of rocks; 300 fossils; and about 200 zoological specimens. 

 This material is largely the result of local collections made by students, 

 with gifts from alumni and friends of the college. The museum oc- 

 cupies one room but there are no provisions for its care other than that 

 given by students. 



DAVENPORT: 



DAVENPORT ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. Museum. 



Staff. Acting director, E. K. Putnam; Curator and acting 

 librarian, J. H. Paarmann; Assistant curator, Sarah G. F. Sheldon; 

 Taxidermist, John Paddock; 1 janitor. 



Anthropology. Archeology, native, 23,5oo±, foreign, ioo±; 

 Ethnology, native, 1400, foreign, 2oo±. These collections include 

 the following items: 1300 specimens of ancient pottery from the 

 lower Mississippi Valley, 15 from the upper Mississippi Valley, and 

 16 from cliff dwellings; 14,700 chipped implements, 1200 pecked imple- 

 ments, 800 polished implements of stone from the upper Mississippi 

 Valley; 350 bone implements and 65 carved pipes from mounds of 

 Iowa and Illinois; 2000 shell beads, 50 miscellaneous articles of shell, 

 34 copper axes, 300 copper beads, and 36 other copper articles from 

 Iowa mounds; 2oo± crania from mounds of Mississippi Valley; and 

 iooo± miscellaneous mound relics. 



Botany. A fairly complete herbarium of local flowering plants 

 and a collection of log specimens illustrating native trees of Iowa. 



Commerce and Industry. Collections illustrating the origin, 

 cultivation, manufacture, uses, etc., of common things. 



Geology. Minerals, on exhibition, n, ooo±, in storage, 5000^; 

 Rocks, 6oo±; Dynamic geology, relief maps, models, etc., 3oo±; 

 Economic geology, 300+ . 



History. 4oo± specimens. 



Paleontology. Invertebrates, 6ooo±; Vertebrates, ioo±; 

 Plants, 6ooo±. 



