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herbarium of 3000 or more specimens of the local flora. There is also 

 a skeleton of a mastodon and a small collection of stone implements. 

 This museum occupies 2240 square feet of floor space for exhibition, 

 and is in charge of John M. Holzinger, curator, with the exception of 

 the collection of minerals and fossils, which has recently been trans- 

 ferred to the care of the department of geography. 



The nucleus of this museum is a collection purchased prior to 

 1882 for $3500 and known as the Woodman collection. This was 

 purchased by the Winona Society of Arts, Sciences, and Letters, 

 which deposited the collection in the normal school. 



MISSISSIPPI 



AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE: . 



MISSISSIPPI AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE. 



The college maintains an experiment station herbarium of 2000 

 phanerogams and 2000 fungi (chiefly parasitic) , and a college herbarium 

 of 2000 specimens. There are also 500 geological specimens, and a 

 zoological collection, including 10,000 insects, a synoptic collection 

 of 70 invertebrates, a few fishes, and a fairly good collection of bird 

 eggs. 



JACKSON: 



MILLSAPS COLLEGE. 



The college has a museum which has accumulated since 1894 and 

 now includes a collection of about 100 Indian relics from Mississippi; 

 100 specimens of Japanese art, religion, warfare, and domestic life; 

 500 minerals and 500 rocks, including the educational collection of 

 the United States geological survey; 500 invertebrate and 60 verte- 

 brate fossils; including vertebrae and teeth of Zeuglodon, Mastodon, 

 Carcharodon, etc.; 80 invertebrates and fishes; and a collection of 500 

 bird eggs representing 50 varieties. This collection is in charge of J. 

 M. Sullivan, professor of geology, and is supported by occasional 

 gifts and laboratory fees of college classes. 



STATE DEPARTMENT OF ARCHIVES AND HISTORY. (State 

 Capitol.) 



This department contains a collection of native archeology and a 



historical collection including portraits, manuscripts, war relics, etc. 



in charge of Dunbar Rowland, director, and Mrs. Dunbar Rowland, 



assistant. There is also a historical library of 3000 volumes, including 



