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NORTHFIELD : 



CARLETON COLLEGE. 



The college has a museum containing approximately 12,000 fos- 

 sils, 2000 minerals, and 1000 zoological specimens. The collection is 

 now in storage owing to changes in the buildings of the college and 

 there is no curator at present. 



ST. PAUL: 



HAMLINE UNIVERSITY. 



No reply has been received to repeated requests for information 

 concerning the natural history museum of this university, which is 

 said by Merrill to comprise 200 anthropological specimens, 3300 

 botanical specimens, a general collection of minerals, 1000 specimens 

 of historical geology, 1000 fossils, and the following zoological collec- 

 tions: Shells, 500; Insects, 1000; Other invertebrates, 500 alcoholic 

 and 300 dried specimens; Birds, 200 mounted specimens and 400 skins; 

 Mammals, 100 skins; Osteology, 100 articulated and 250 disarticulated 

 skeletons; Alcoholic vertebrates, 200; Anatomical preparations, 500; 

 Bird nests and eggs, 500. 



MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 



The society maintains a museum, library, and portrait gallery; 

 the two former in the new state capitol building, the latter in the old 

 capitcl, where the former governor's rooms are used as a state portrait 

 gallery. The museum contains historical relics, chiefly of local in- 

 terest, and a large archeological collection, including about 23,000 

 specimens donated by Rev. Edward C. Mitchell, and about 100,000 

 specimens, collected and donated by the late Hon. J. V. B rower. From 

 the field notes and maps accompanying the latter collection, there is 

 in press a quarto volume on "The Archaeology of Minnesota," with 

 about 500 maps of aboriginal mounds in this state, by Prof. N. H. 

 Winchell, to be published by the society. 



ST. PAUL INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. 



In connection with its department of natural and physical sciences 

 the St. Paul Institute has established a museum which was opened to 

 the public on February 4, 19 10. The museum includes the Mite', ell 

 collection of 1 2,000 sponges, corals, shells, other marine invertebrates, 

 and fossils; a collection of 400 game birds and fishes; over 2000 fossils; 

 600 Indian pottery, implements, and weapons; an ethnological col- 

 lection of 600 objects from the Philippines, Egypt, and North American 

 Indian tribes; 2000 geological specimens; a Minnesota herbarium; a 



