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purchased by the college there are a number of special gift collections 

 containing valuable material. The department of chemistry has a 

 museum illustrating the manufacture of substances from raw material. 

 The department of history maintains a collection of articles of histori- 

 cal interest in connection with the history of New York. The de- 

 partment of natural history maintains an extensive museum, of which 

 the nucleus was given by Dr. Bashford Dean; there is also a large 

 series of mineralogical specimens. 



COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA. 



This society, organized in 1890, is said by Thwaites to maintain 

 museum and art collections. 



COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY. 



Botany. The collections of this department are united with 

 those of the New York Botanical Garden in Bronx Park, with the 

 exception of a small teaching collection in Schermerhorn Hall. 



Chemistry. The Chandler museum of applied chemistry con- 

 tains illustrations of the chemical and physical history of electricity, 

 photography, glass, pottery, etc. 



Geology and Paleontology. This collection is housed in 

 Schermerhorn Hall, and consists chiefly of the collections gathered by 

 the late Professor J. S. Newberry. It is especially rich in fossil fishes 

 (now on deposit in the American Museum of Natural History), of 

 which it contains many types; there is also an unusually fine specimen 

 of the Irish elk. The extensive collections of fossil plants formerly 

 in this museum are now deposited with the New York Botanical 

 Garden. 



Zoology. An excellent teaching collection, covering osteology 

 embryology, cytology, invertebrate zoology, etc. 



COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY. Egleston Mineralogical Museum. 



This collection is housed in Schermerhorn Hall and is in charge of 

 Alfred J. Moses. It was formed in 1864 as a working collection for the 

 School of Mines. In 1880 it had grown to 13,000 specimens, in 1890 

 to 19,000, and in 1900 to approximately 30,000, all carefully selected 

 specimens. In addition to the exhibition series, which are well in- 

 stalled and completely cataloged, there are extensive study collections 

 for the use of students. There is a working library of about 1000 

 volumes on mineralogy and crystallography, intended for the use of 

 the staff and students. 



