232 DIRECTORY OF AMERICAN MUSEUMS 



OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY. 



The university maintains teaching collections in connection with 

 its several departments, as follows: 



Botany. A general herbarium of 30,000 sheets; a state herbarium 

 of 20,000 sheets of spermatophytes and pteridophytes and 10,000 

 bryophytes and thalophytes; the Kellerman herbarium of parasitic 

 fungi; and about 3000 museum specimens illustrating native trees, 

 medicinal plants, economic products, etc. 



Geology. A small collection of minerals and rocks, and about 

 2000 specimens illustrating the economic geology of Ohio. The mater- 

 ial collected by the state geological survey is required by law to be 

 deposited with the university. 



Paleontology. A general series of 9000 fossils in which local 

 formations a v e well represented. 



Zoology. Shells, 3500; Insects, 40,000; Other invertebrates, 96; 

 Fishes, 289; Batrachians, 45; Reptiles, 100; Birds, 250 mounted speci- 

 mens and 2500 skins; Mammals, 25 mounted specimens, 50 alcoholic 

 specimens, and 300 skeletons, skulls, and anatomical preparations. 

 The Ohio fauna is well represented in the collection. 



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OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY. 



The college maintains museum collections, in charge of Lewis G. 

 Westgate, curator, as follows: 



Anthropology. The William Walker cabinet of American 

 archeology, recently enlarged and rearranged in eight new cases. 



Geology. The Merrick-Trimble collection of minerals; a series 

 of rocks; and specimens illustrating structural and dynamic geology. 



Paleontology. The William Wood cabinet of casts, containing 

 an almost complete series of Ward's casts; the Mann cabinet of fossils; 

 a very full series of Ohio fossils; and a very fine series of devonian 

 fishes, largely collected and presented by Rev. William Kepler. 



Zoology. The Prescott cabinet of shells; a collection of corals 

 given by' the class of 1881; a collection of marine specimens of the 

 Atlantic coast, collected by Edward T. Nelson, for many years curator 

 of the museum; the Webber-Merrill cabinet of Palestinian specimens, 

 very rich in birds; a collection of native birds, already including over 

 half the species known to Ohio; mounted and unmounted skeletons; 

 and series of anatomical and embryological models. 



Bltildings. The geological collections are in Sturges Hall, while 

 the remainder are on the third, floor of Merrick Hall. 



