BUFFALO SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCES 99 



POLAND SPRING: 



POLAND SPRING ART GALLERY. 



The gallery is in charge of Nettie M. Ricker, art director, and has 

 no permanent collections, but holds an annual art exhibition. 



PORTLAND : 



MAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 



The society has a good collection of historical relics of Maine. 



PORTLAND SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY. Museum. (22 

 Elm Street.) 



Staff. Cabinet keeper and librarian, Arthur H. Norton; 

 Curators, Dana W. Fellows (botany), Mrs. Helen A. Lewis (entomo- 

 logy), Arthur H. Norton (ethnology), H. M. Mailing (mineralogy). 



Anthropology. Uncivilized peoples: Archeology, native, 

 2ooo±, foreign, 573±; Ethnology, native, 2oo±, foreign, 2oo±. 

 Civilized peoples, ancient, 2oo±, modern, i5o±. 



Art. Prints and engravings, 50+; Oil paintings, 3oo±; Water 

 colors, 5o±; Ceramics, 50+; Textiles, ioo±. 



Botany. Cryptogams, 2068; Phanerogams, 11,610; Woods, 

 1000; Fruits and seeds, 2000. 



Geology. Minerals, on exhibition, 5ooo±, in storage, 30001b. 



Paleontology. Invertebrates, 25oo±; Vertebrates, 5oo±; 

 Plants, 1000, including 4 figured specimens. Of special interest is 

 the Perry collection of devonian plants of Maine, and local post- 

 pliocene marine fossils. 



Zoology. Shells, on exhibition, 7i35±, in storage, 2ooo±; 

 Insects, on exhibition, 200, in storage, 1000; Other invertebrates, on 

 exhibition, 250, in storage, iooo±; types and figured specimens, 2; 

 Fishes, on exhibition, 37, in storage, 100; Batrachians, 50; Reptiles, 

 on exhibition, 55, in storage, ioo±; Birds, on exhibition, 400, in stor- 

 age, i5oo±, types, 1; Mammals, on exhibition, 27, in storage, 17; 

 Bird nests, 91, eggs, 581. 



Historical Sketch. The society was organized in 1843 an d 

 incorporated in 1850. In 1854 its museum and library, including the 

 entire collection of shells of Dr. Jesse W. Mighels, with many types, 

 were destroyed by fire. In 1866 the museum and library were again 

 destroyed by fire, the collections lost at this time including a large 

 series of specimens gathered by the second state geological survey — 

 minerals and fossils by C. H. Hitchcock, plants by George L. Goodale, 

 etc. 



