148 DIRECTORY OF AMERICAN MUSEUMS 



Financial Support. The museum receives an annual appro- 

 priation of $1800 from the city, and about $2000 a year from private 

 subscriptions which are used as a picture fund. 



Building. The building covers about 20,000 square feet of 

 ground and is three stories high; it was erected in 1888 at a cost of 

 $160,000, met partly by subscription and partly by city appropria- 

 tion. A new site and a new building are now under consideration. 



Administration. By a director, responsible to a board of trustees 

 through its executive committee. 



Scope. Instruction of the public through exhibition, lectures, 

 etc. A series of Sunday afternoon lectures on art, given during the 

 winter months for the last 17 years, draws audiences which crowd an 

 auditorium accommodating 1000 persons, and as many more are fre- 

 quently turned away. Lectures are given through the week to public 

 school classes which come to the museum. 



Library. 1 000 volumes on art, travel, etc., for use of both staff 

 and public. 



Publications, (i) A bulletin issued quarterly. (2) Annual 

 reports. (3) Catalogs and handbooks' issued at irregular intervals. 



Attendance. Open free to the public on week-days and Sunday 

 afternoons. The attendance is about 170,000 a year. 



EAST LANSING: 



MICHIGAN AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. 



The college maintains a museum in connection with the depart- 

 ment of zoology and geology, in charge of Walter B. Barrows, head of 

 the department. The collections comprise about 1000 Indian relics; 

 2000 minerals and ores; 1000 fossils; the Ward series of casts of fossils; 

 approximately 75,000 native and foreign insects, in charge of the pro- 

 fessor of entomology; and the following other zoological collections, 

 50 mounted fishes, 1100 mounted birds, 2000 bird skins, 150 mounted 

 mammals, and 30 mounted vertebrate skeletons. Special effort has 

 been made to render the local exhibits as complete as possible. The 

 museum occupies a main exhibition hall affording about 2475 square 

 feet of floor space. It is supported from the general funds of the 

 college and is open free to the public daily from 8 to 5 and on Sundays 

 from 2 to 5. The average daily attendance is estimated to be about 

 35; in several instances there have been over 4000 visitors in a single 

 day. 



In addition to the collections described above, there is a series of 

 botanical specimens and woods in the department of botany. 



