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of 16 sections crossing New Hampshire and Vermont; and 1500 speci- 

 mens illustrating the distribution of drift material in New England. 

 There is also an economic collection of 250c specimens, illustrating the 

 occurrence of gold and silver in Montana, marbles, slates, and granites 

 of New Hampshire and Vermont, and a series of petroleum specimens 

 from 100 localities. 



Paleontology. An extensive collection of fossil footprints (Jur- 

 assic) made by Professor Hitchcock; devonian and silurian fishes, 

 collected by Professor Patten; one of the James Hall collections of 

 New York fossils; and several Ward casts of large vertebrate fossils. 



HOPKINTON: 



NEW HAMPSHIRE ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY. 



This society maintains a collection of Indian relics, idols, old 

 china and pewter, coins, geological specimens, manuscripts, old furn- 

 iture, antique costumes, portraits, old-fashioned tools and utensils, 

 etc. The society occupies a building erected in 1890 by Mrs. Lucia 

 Long. The museum is installed in a large hall on the second floor and 

 is in charge of Sarah U. Kimball, curator. The rooms are open free 

 to the public two afternoons a week in summer, but are seldom open 

 in winter for lack of heat and light. 



KEENE: 



KEENE HIGH SCHOOL. 



The principal reports that the school has teaching collections com- 

 prising a herbarium of 500 specimens of flowering plants and ferns of 

 New Hampshire, 2000 minerals, 150 fossils, and 3000 zoological speci- 

 mens, including mounted mammals and birds, skulls and skeletons, 

 shells and insects, and a small series of corals and reptiles. 



MANCHESTER: 



MANCHESTER HISTORIC ASSOCIATION. (452 Merrimack St.) 

 This association has a small historical collection in connection with 



its library. 



MANCHESTER INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. 



In addition to class work in fine arts, handicraft, etc., the institute 

 has a herbarium of 3000 sheets of local phanerogams, in charge of 

 Frederick W. Batchelder, and a fairly extensive collection of insects, 

 in charge of E. J. Burnham. In 1902 the institute lost by fire a 

 more extensive museum of mineralogy, zoology, and botany. The 

 collections are in charge of William H. Huse, curator. 



