l8o DIRECTORY OF AMERICAN MUSEUMS 



Scope. The museum is an organization for research and for the 

 preservation of research collections. Its field is the state of New York. 



Library. A fairly extensive library belonging to the museum is 

 combined with the state library. 



Publications. The series of annual museum reports contains 

 all the publications of the institution. The reports of the director and 

 the division heads, as well as special treatises, are published in advance 

 as bulletins; 8-ioof these are issued annually. More elaborate treatises 

 are published as memoirs, and issued as advance parts of the annual 

 reports. The total number of annual reports issued is 62 ; the number 

 of bulletins since 1892 is 127; of memoirs. 12; and of other publica- 

 tions, ioo±. 



Attendance. Open free to the public. 



ALFRED: 



ALFRED UNIVERSITY. Allen Steinheim and Museum of 

 Natural History. 



Staff. Curator, James D. Bennehoff , who is also in charge of the 

 department of natural science and gives only a part of his time to the 

 work of the museum. 



Anthropology. Archeology, native, 2ooo±, foreign, iooo±; 

 Ethnology, native, 5oo±, foreign, 2oo±; Coins, 1436. 



Art. Sculpture, 25 (mostly plaster casts) ; Prints and engravings, 

 100 (local); Oil paintings, 25 (local); Ceramics, 500; Textiles, 100. 



Botany. Cryptogams, i5o±; Phanerogams, iooo±. 



Geology. Minerals, 2000 ; Rocks, 2 50 ; Economic collections, etc. , 

 20oo±; Special collections illustrating the Chemung. The building 

 is constructed of many different kinds of stone from local glacial depos- 

 its, and a variety of woods in natural finish. 



Paleontology. Invertebrates, 8oo±; Vertebrates, 4oo±; 

 Plants, 2oo±; Unclassified, 1000. The collections are especially rich 

 in devonian material. 



Zoology. The shell collection includes 1000 marine species, 500 

 univalves, and 200 unionidae. Insects are represented by 2000 species, 

 poorly preserved. These two collections are strong in local material. 

 Other invertebrates, fishes, batrachians, and reptiles are represented 

 by small collections. There are also 122 species of birds and a number 

 of mammals. 



Historical Sketch. The museum originated in collections of 

 President Jonathan Allen of Alfred University, who died in 1892. He 

 intended to leave the museum to the university but made no will, 



