106 DIRECTORY OF AMERICAN MUSEUMS 



irregular amounts from subscriptions, averaging about $800 a year. 

 Funds received from subscriptions are chiefly used for buying specific 

 collections or for sending out field parties. 



Building. The museum occupies 10,000 square feet of floor 

 space for exhibition in a building erected by the college in 1909, at a 

 cost of $90,000. 



Scope. College teaching, exploration, and research. 



Attendance. Open free to the public daily. 



MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. 



The college maintains teaching collections in connection with its 

 several departments, as follows: 



Agronomy. Samples of grains and seeds of economic impor- 

 tance in field culture. 



Animal Husbandry. A set of plaster-of-paris models of foreign 

 and domestic breeds of horses, cattle, sheep, and swine; and a col- 

 lection of food stuffs available for the use of the New England farmer. 



Botany. A collection of Massachusetts timber trees, and various 

 specimens illustrating scientific methods of treating trees; and a 

 herbarium comprising 12,000 sheets of fungi, 1200 sheets of lichens 

 and liverworts, 1200 sheets of mosses, and 15,000 species of flowering 

 plants and ferns. There is also a conservatory 28 x 70 feet. 



Chemistry. Samples of rocks, minerals, soils, raw and manu- 

 factured fertilizers, foods, milk products, fibers, various other vege- 

 table and animal products, and artificial preparations of mineral and 

 organic compounds. 



Entomology. A large and growing collection of insects, both 

 in the adult and in the early stages. 



Floriculture. A series of palm, fern, orchid, violet, carnation, 

 and rose greeenhouses. 



Geology. A large series of minerals; the state collection of rocks 

 of Massachusetts; a series of Ward's fossils and casts of fossils; 

 models, charts, etc. 



Veterinary Science. Skeletons of the horse, cow, sheep, dog, 

 and pig; and a growing collection of anatomical and pathological 

 specimens. 



Zoology. A museum of over 1 1 ,000 specimens designed to show 

 as fully as possible the fauna of Massachusetts, and the principles 

 of zoology for teaching purposes. This museum is in charge of C. 

 E. Gordon, curator, and is open free to the public on Saturdays from 

 1 to 5 and on other week-days from 2.15 to 4.15. 



