1 68 DIRECTORY OF AMERICAN MUSEUMS 



DURHAM: 



NEW HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE AND THE 

 MECHANIC ARTS. 



The department of zoology and entomology maintains a represent- 

 ative display of the birds of New Hampshire, together with collections 

 of invertebrate animals, skeletons, models, and geological specimens in 

 Thompson Hall. The nucleus of this museum is the collection of the 

 state geological survey. The collection of insects is maintained by 

 the Agricultural Experiment Station, and comprises about 20,000 

 specimens. 



The department of botany maintains a herbarium in Nesmith 

 Hall. 



HANOVER: 



DARTMOUTH COLLEGE. Butterfield Museum. 



The museum occupies about 4300 square feet of floor space for 

 exhibition in a building which is the gift of the late Dr. Ralph Butter- 

 field, and which also contains the science departments of the college. 

 The collections are in charge of the members of the respective depart- 

 ments: C. H. Hitchcock (geology), William Patten (zoology), and G. 

 R. Lyman (botany). 



Anthropology. 500 aboriginal implements; 90 skulls and pieces 

 of pottery of the mound builders; 400 specimens from Zululand, 

 Alaska, and the South Sea Islands; many photographs of American 

 Indians, and a full-size figure of Chief Joseph from the Smithsonian 

 Institution; a few Roman antiquities; a collection of Burmese and Jap- 

 anese antiquities; and 8 or 9 unusually fine sculptures from Nineveh, 

 obtained by Dr. Wright about 1S60. 



Botany. A general herbarium of 5000 species gathered by Prof. 

 C. H. Hitchcock and rich in ferns and marine algae; 1000 speci- 

 mens of wood sections, seeds, etc.; many mosses and hepaticae; the 

 Trelease herbarium of several thousand phanerogams and ferns; and 

 the H. G. Jesup herbarium. 



Geology. The Frederick Hall collection of 2000 minerals; 11,700 

 rocks, including 350 volcanic rocks from Vesuvius and the Hawaiian 

 volcanoes; 200 massive igneous rocks; a special collection of 250 rocks 

 from the New Hampshire geological survey; a general collection of 

 3500 New Hampshire and Vermont rocks; 1000 rocks from the White 

 Mountains; 1100 from the Ammomoosuc district; 500 from the vicinity 

 of Hanover; 200 from the vicinities of Vernon, New Hampshire, and 

 Bernardston, Massachusetts ; a set of 3000 rocks, illustrating the geology 



