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library is open every week-day and evening and the museum two days 

 a week. Although the population of Granville is but 4000 the attend- 

 ance at the museum amounts to from 75-125 daily. 



HAMILTON: 



COLGATE UNIVERSITY. 



The assistant librarian reports that the university maintains a 

 museum, but no further information has been received from repeated 

 requests. It is learned indirectly that the museum is housed in Lath- 

 rop Hall and comprises the Urban collection of about 2000 minerals; a 

 collection of western ores and other economic specimens; a good collec- 

 tion of fossils, especially rich in material from the type locality of the 

 Hamilton group on the college grounds; the Bickmore collection of 

 East Indian birds; and a general collection of invertebrates. In addi- 

 tion to these there is the Douglas herbarium of 1600 plants from north- 

 eastern United States, and the Cobb collection of 1100 specimens of 

 mosses, lichens, and ferns. 



ITHACA: 



CORNELL UNIVERSITY. Museum of Classical Archaeology. 

 (Goldwin Smith Hall.) 



Staff. Curator, Eugene P. Andrews. 



Collections. Over 500 plaster casts, from original moulds, of 

 the best and most typical works of Greek and Roman art extant; 

 15 examples of Greek pottery; 135 Greek coins, for the most part silver; 

 over 300 paper impressions of Greek inscriptions; the British Museum 

 set of 7 frames of electrotypes of Greek coins; and the most important 

 of the galvan -plastische replicas of Mycenaean antiquities. 



Historical Sketch. The casts are for the most part the gift of 

 the late Henry W. Sage, in 1894, and represent an expenditure of about 

 820,000. 



Financial Support. An annual appropriation of about $800 

 from the university. 



Building. The museum occupies about half of the first floor in 

 Goldwin Smith Hall, affording approximately 9000 square feet of 

 exhibition space. 



Scope. It is the aim of the museum to provide material for uni- 

 versity lectures and to promote general culture. 



Publications. A catalog of the, collections. 



Attendance. Open free to the public on week-days from 9 to 

 1 2 and 2 to 5. The number of visitors is about 10,000 a year. 



