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WILLIAMSTOWN: 



WILLIAMS COLLEGE. Museums. 



Art. The department of art has a large collection of etchings, 

 ceramics, photographs, etc., in charge of R. O. Rice, professor of art. 

 These collections are awaiting the erection of a suitable building to 

 provide space for their display. 



Geology and Paleontology. This department maintains the 

 following collections in charge of Herdman F. Cleland, professor of 

 geology and curator of the museum, with 1 assistant and 1 janitor: 

 Minerals, on exhibition, 1800. in storage, 5000; Rocks, on exhibition, 

 400, in storage, 1000; Dynamic geology, relief maps, models, etc., on 

 exhibition, 50, in storage, 250; Invertebrate fossils, on exhibition, 

 1000, in storage, 3000; Vertebrates, on exhibition, 75, in storage, 25; 

 Plants, on exhibition, 300, in storage, 250. Geological material of 

 special interest includes a local collection; a Panama collection; a 

 series of ornamental stones; an especially fine series of silica, agate, 

 etc. ; and a selected series of specimens to show weathering and erosion, 

 folding and faulting, and ore formation. There are also 3000 recent 

 shells on exhibition and 2000 in storage. The paleontological collec- 

 tion includes the types of many of E. Emmons' vertebrates and inver- 

 tebrates from North Carolina, especially Dromatherium sylvestre; 

 and of H. F. Cleland's invertebrates from the calciferous of New York 

 and the devonian of Wisconsin. The museum has a geological library 

 of 2500 volumes for the use of staff and students. 



The geological museum occupies a building erected in 1908 by the 

 Clark estate and affording 4200 square feet of floor space for exhibi- 

 tion, and 5400 for offices, workrooms, etc. 



In the biological laboratory there is a good teaching collection, 

 and in the basement of Berkshire Hall are stored the remnants of the 

 collections of the old Lyceum of Natural History which is said to be the 

 oldest student organization of its kind in the United States, having 

 originated at least as early as 1825. 



WOBURN: 



RUMFORD HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION. 



No reply has been received to repeated requests for information 

 concerning this association, which is said by Thwaites to maintain 

 a small museum. 



