208 DIRECTORY OF AMERICAN MUSEUMS 



the New York Botanical Garden, 6 volumes issued to 1909. (4) 

 North American Flora, planned to be complete in 30 volumes, 

 12 parts issued to 1909. (5) Memoirs of the New York Botanical 

 Garden, 4 volumes issued. (6) Contributions from the New York 

 Botanical Garden, 4 volumes issued. 



Attendance. Open free to the public daily from 10 to 5. No 

 record of attendance kept. 



THE NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY (170 Central Park West.) 



This society, founded in 1804, maintains collections comprising 

 76 pieces of sculpture, a collection of New York prints, and 944 oil 

 paintings. Among special collections may be mentioned the Peter 

 Marie collection of miniatures consisting of portraits of American 

 women, the Bryan gallery of old masters, the collection of the New 

 York Gallery of Fine Arts, the Diirr gallery, the Abbott collection of 

 Egyptian antiquities, and the Lenox collection of Nineveh sculptures. 



The society maintains a library of 150,000 volumes on American 

 history and publishes a series of Collections containing material on 

 American history. 



NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY. Lenox Branch. (Fifth Avenue 

 and 70th Street.) 



The library has two galleries: (1) the Lenox gallery, containing 

 150 paintings, several marble statues, and other objects of art; (2) 

 the Stuart gallery, containing 242 paintings and one piece of Gobelin 

 tapestry, 13^ X 21^ feet in size. These collections are maintained 

 but not increased by the New York Public Library. There are catalogs 

 of each collection, but no other publications relating to them. 



It is expected that this collection will be moved to a new library 

 building at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, in 191 1. 



NEW YORK UNIVERSITY. 



No reply has been received to repeated requests for information 

 regarding the museums of the university, which are said by Merrill to 

 comprise ethnological collections, 1500 minerals, 8000 specimens of 

 economic geology, 16,000 fossils, and zoological specimens which are 

 especially rich in Bermuda material. 



NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. Aquarium. (Battery Park.) 



Staff. Director, Charles Haskins Townsend; Assistant direc- 

 tor, R. C. Osburn; Assistants, L. B. Spencer (fresh-water collec- 

 tions), W. I. DeMyse (marine collections); 1 clerk and stenographer, 

 1 foreman, 3 engineers, 3 lire men. 3 filter men, and 15 attendants. 



