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ZOOLOGICAL PARK. 



The city maintains a zoological park of about 4 acres, established 

 in 1902, containing 4 reptiles, 413 birds, and 108 mammals. 



SCHENECTADY: 



SCHENECTADY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 



This society was organized in 1905 and has established a museum 

 which contains at present about 150 articles of historical interest, be- 

 sides 721 documents, manuscripts, maps, letters, etc. 



UNION COLLEGE. Natural History Museum. 



Staff. Curator, James H. Stoller; Honorary curator of the 

 Wheatley collection of minerals, Daniel S. Martin. 



Art. There are in the library building a number of original 

 alabaster slabs from Nineveh, including 2 large winged figures. 



Botany. A herbarium of local ferns and flowering plants, 

 including the J. B. Ellis collection of 2300 fungi; also a considerable 

 number of foreign plants from Germany, Spain, Asia Minor, Switzer- 

 land, France, England, Iceland, and Norway. 



Geology. The Wheatley collection of 3000 minerals on exhibi- 

 tion and 1000 in storage; a considerable collection of rocks. The Wheat- 

 ley collection, presented to the college in 1858, has recently been revised 

 and supplemented by specimens presented by Dr. Martin and by Mr. 

 Alfred H. Brooks. In addition to an excellent general collection it 

 includes fine crystallized charcoal chalcocites from Bristol, Connecti- 

 cut, an excellent series from the Perkiomen copper mine, and a col- 

 lection of lead ores, calcites, and crystallized barites from the Wheat- 

 ley lead mine at Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, probably unequaied in 

 the world. 



Zoology. The Wheatley collection of 3000 shells, a large collec- 

 tion of marine Annelida made by H. S. Webster, 311 mounted birds, 

 and small collections in other groups. 



The museum occupies one floor of the library building, and is 

 supported by a small annual appropriation from the college. 



SCHOHARIE: 



SCHOHARIE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 



This society maintains a miscellaneous loan collection of 1386 

 specimens, and 3 special collections comprising (1) 326 minerals, crys- 

 tals, gems, etc.: (2) 1060 implements of the stone age; (3) 57 North 

 American bird eggs — owned and loaned by D. A. Hitchman of Scho- 



