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Collections. The total number of specimens is nearly 17,000, 

 of which about one-half are in storerooms or laboratories, not com- 

 monly open to the public, but accessible for study. Special care has 

 been taken in the selection of a synoptic series of vertebrates. There 

 are also faunal series, in which North American vertebrates are repre- 

 sented by all the ganoids and cyclostomes, one-seventh of the teleosts, 

 two-fifths of the selachians, two-thirds of the frogs and toads, one- 

 third of the lizards, one-half of the salamanders, turtles, and serpents, 

 two-fifths of the birds, and 70 of the mammals. The local fauna is 

 represented by 65 fishes, 17 amphibians, 20 reptiles, 258 birds, and 

 39 mammals. As an aid to zoological instruction there are extensive 

 series of embryos, dissected and injected viscera, and a series of about 

 1900 well-prepared brains of representative forms, distributed as 

 follows: human adults and children, 500; human embryos and children 

 at birth, 315; apes, monkeys, and lemurs, 235; domestic cats, 265; 

 other mammals, 25; sharks and rays, 105; other vertebrates, 230. 

 This collection includes many rare selachian and holocephalous 

 genera; the human adult brains include 12 from more or less well- 

 known educated persons of both sexes. 



Financial Support. The museum has no special funds but is 

 supported from the general appropriation for the department. The 

 amount expended upon the museum proper is about $250 annually. 



Building. The portion of the museum which is open to the pub- 

 lic occupies about 5575 square feet of floor space in McGraw Hall. 

 The storage collections are kept in the laboratories and storerooms 

 of the department. 



Scope. Primarily college teaching and research. 



Attendance. The exhibition collections are open free to the 

 public on week-days from 9 to 5. No statistics of attendance are 

 available. 



CORNELL UNIVERSITY. Veterinary College. 



The college maintains, for purposes of instruction, a collection of 

 about 3000 pathological specimens and several hundred physiological, 

 pharmaceutical, and anatomical preparations. A part of these collec- 

 tions occupies 2500 square feet of floor space in the middle section of 

 the college building, and is open to the public from 9 to 5, although 

 the specimens are not labeled for public exhibition. These collections 

 are in charge of the several professors and are supported from the 

 general funds of the college, derived from appropriations of the state 

 legislature. 



