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Building. The museum occupies the center pavilion of Goucher 

 Hall, erected in 1886, which affords about 2000 square feet of floor 

 space for exhibition, and about 1000 for offices, dark-room, workroom, 

 storeroom, etc. 



Administration. By a director, responsible to the president of 

 the college. 



Scope . College instruction is the primary purpose of the museum ; 

 field investigation is undertaken as time permits. 



ZOOLOGICAL PARK. 



The city maintains a zoological park of 6 acres, established in 

 1882, containing 4 reptiles, 72 birds, and 83 mammals. 



BEL AIR: 



HARFORD COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 



This society occupies a room in the court house, in which it main- 

 tains a collection of articles of local historical interest, including 

 photographs, private papers, books, files of county newspapers, etc. 

 An effort is being made to secure a new building for these collec- 

 tions in combination with a library and reading room. 



ELLICOTT CITY: 



ROCK HILL COLLEGE. 



The college has a museum including about 800 photographs, coins, 

 musical instruments, native manuscripts, etc. from Ceylon, and plaster 

 casts of American Indian relics; a herbarium of 2500 specimens, 

 including a complete set of the ferns of Howard County; and a teaching 

 collection of about 2000 minerals. 



MASSACHUSETTS 



AMHERST: 



AMHERST COLLEGE. Museum. 



Staff. The collections are in charge of B. K. Emerson (geology) 

 and F. B. Loomis (zoology). 



Anthropology. Archeology, native, 30,ooo±, foreign, 5oo±; 

 Ethnology, native, 50, foreign, 5oo±. This collection comprises about 

 7000 specimens from the Connecticut Valley, including the Gilbert 

 collection of stone relics of American Indians found within 50 miles 

 of Amherst College; about 2000 from the Maine shell heaps; 2000 from 

 New England in general; about 10,000 from the Champlain Valley; 

 and about 10,000 from the United States in general. There are also 



