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Anthropology. i5o± local specimens. 



Botany. i5,ooo± specimens, including the Halsted collection 

 of New England lichens; the Cummings and Seymour collection of 

 lichens; Cook's illustrative collection of fungi; the Ellis and Everhard 

 collection of fungi; the Underwood collection of liverworts; the Sul- 

 livan and Lesquereaux collection of mosses; the Blake herbarium of 

 io,ooo± cryptogams and phanerogams ; the Halsted collection of weeds 

 and the Harvey collection of weeds and forage plants of Maine; and 

 a special herbarium of cryptogams and phanerogams of Maine. 



Geology. A good teaching collection, including a series of 

 Maine minerals and an economic collection of 300± specimens. 



Paleontology. A general teaching collection of about 500 

 specimens. 



Zoology. A general collection of about 1000 specimens, includ- 

 ing much local material, and several groups of animals exhibited in 

 natural surroundings. 



ORRS ISLAND: 



ORRS ISLAND LIBRARY. 



This is an incorporated institution maintained largely by summer 

 visitors. As one branch of its educational work it maintains a museum 

 devoted to the fauna and flora of the island and surrounding waters. 

 The collections include a herbarium of about 300 specimens, a col- 

 lection of 100 shells, 30 invertebrates in fluid, 12 snakes, and occasional 

 representatives of other classes. These collections are in charge of 

 Ellen M. Mountfort, librarian, and John L. Stilphen, assistant. 



PARIS: 



HAMLIN MEMORIAL HALL. 



While this is primarily a library of about 2000 volumes it also 

 contains portraits of the Hamlin family, and an interesting exhibit of 

 cut tourmalines and tourmaline crystals from neighboring Mt. Mica. 

 The building was formerly the county jail and was deeded to the Paris 

 Hill Library Association about 1902, through the efforts of Dr. Augus- 

 tus Choate Hamlin of Bangor, Maine, as a memorial to his son. Dr. 

 Hamlin at his death endowed the library in the sum of $5000. The 

 library and museum are open free to the public, through the summer 

 months, on Mondays from 3 to 4.30 and on Wednesday and Saturday 

 evenings from 7.30 to 9. During the winter it is open only on Wednes- 

 days from 2.30 to 4 and from 7.30 to 9. 



