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Botany. Cryptogams, 2000; Phanerogams, 4500+. The de- 

 partment includes the Merrill collection of 1000 ferns; 100 Hawaiian 

 ferns; a general herbarium of 1500 specimens; and 100 plants, in many 

 cases with open flowers, preserved in alcohol. As an adjunct to the 

 museum the Eleanor conservatory contains about 1500 plants repre- 

 senting the leading families. 



Geology. Minerals and rocks, 2572; Dynamic geology, relief 

 maps, models, etc., 5c; Microscopic sections of rocks, 100. 



Paleontology. Invertebrate, vertebrate, and plant fossils, on 

 exhibition, 1625, in storage, 2ioo±. This collection includes skeletons 

 of a mastodon and a moa; 100 fine sections of American fossil bryozoa; 

 and 50 species of fossil ostracoid entomostraca. 



Zoology. Shells, on exhibition, 5oo±, in storage, 6000; Insects, 

 5oo±; Other invertebrates, 300±; Fishes, 40±; Batrachians, ioo±; 

 Reptiles, ioo±; Birds, on exhibition, 25oo±, in storage, i22±; 

 Mammals, 140+. The collection of birds includes the types of Ster- 

 corarius pomerinus (Audubon specimen), Icterus graceaurcea, and 

 Merula hauxwelli. Especially valuable specimens are the great auk 

 which served as the original of Audubon's plate, a male Labrador duck, 

 and several ivory-billed woodpeckers and Carolina parakeets. These 

 specimens were in the collection of J. J. Giraud, who was a friend of 

 Audubon and obtained some of his specimens from him. 



Financial Support. The college grants annually $650 to each 

 of the two divisions of the museum (art and natural history). There 

 is also a fund of $2000 left by J. J. Giraud, the income of which is 

 used for the extension of the collection of North American birds. 



Administration. By curators, responsible to a board of trustees 

 through the president of the college. 



Scope. The purpose of the museum is college teaching. 



ROCHESTER: 



ROCHESTER ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 



The academy has botanical and zoological collections deposited 

 in the museum of the University of Rochester. 



ROCHESTER HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 



In addition to a library of several thousand volumes on local 

 American history, the society maintains a collection of Indian relics 

 and other anthropological material; portraits of local celebrities and 

 other prints and paintings of a historical nature. The collection is in 



