230 DIRECTORY OF AMERICAN MUSEUMS 



History. An extensive and complete collection of historical 

 maps and atlases covering the entire range of history from the 16th 

 century to the present day; civil war relics; a statue of Oliver Hazard 

 Perry; prints and engravings of Western Reserve, early Cleveland, and 

 vicinity; many oil portraits of local interest; and a collection of garments 

 worn in the United States from colonial times through the civil war. 



Numismatics. A good collection, also a collection of Confederate 

 and other paper money. 



Zoology. A few shells and butterflies. 



Historical Sketch. The museum is the result of gifts to the 

 Western Reserve Historical Society, which originated in 1867. 



Financial Support. At present there are no special funds for 

 maintenance, but it is expected that an endowment fund will soon be 

 provided for the society, after which the museum will be cataloged and 

 described. 



Building. The museum occupies a portion of the building owned 

 and used by the society. 



Administration. By a curator, responsible to a board of 

 trustees. 



Scope. The museum is not limited in number of departments nor 

 in territory represented. A special effort, however, is made to assem- 

 ble local collections, and to interest the pupils of the private and public 

 schools, who frequently visit the museum with their teachers. 



Library. A library of 30,000 volumes and as many pamphlets is 

 maintained by the society. Collections of books, maps, prints, etc., 

 are exhibited from time to time in the museum. The collection of 

 books on Arctic exploration, of 200 separate titles, is one of the finest 

 in the United States. 



Publications. The Western Reserve Historical Society Tracts 

 contain many numbers of anthropological, geographical, and geological 

 interest. 



Attendance. Open free to the public daily, except Sundays and 

 holidays, from 9 to 5. 



WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY. 



The university maintains a small geological and zoological collec- 

 tion in charge of F. H.Herrick, professor of biology, and H. P. Cushing, 

 professor of geology. The collections comprise about 6000 specimens 

 in paleontology, including the S. G. Williams collection of 2500 fossils, 

 chiefly of the New York paleozoic; about 2500 minerals; 1200 rocks; 

 1000 botanical specimens representing the flora of Ohio fairly com- 



