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PRESBYTERIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Museum and Gallery. 

 (Witherspoon Building. ( 



This society maintains a museum with collections relating to the 

 history of Presbyterian churches in the United States, as follows: 

 church seals, arms, etc.; io,ooo± prints and drawings; communion 

 tokens; pewter and silver plate; church furniture; miscellaneous relics; 

 and an extensive collection of books and manuscripts. These col- 

 lections are in charge of Alfred Percival Smith, curator, and are open 

 free to the public on week-days from 10 to 5, except on Saturday, when 

 the hours are 10 to 12. 



UNITED STATES MINT. Numismatic Collection. 



This collection was established in 183 8 and has been increased 

 slowly by a small allowance from the incidental and contingent appro- 

 priation of the mint. It now includes about 20,000 coins and medals 

 representing nearly all countries and arranged geographically and 

 chronologically. It occupies 2025 square feet of floor space for exhi- 

 bition and is open free to the public daily except Sundays and holidays 

 from 9 to 3.30. The attendance in 1909 was about 100,000. The 

 collection is in charge of T. L. Comparette, curator. 



UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. 



Teaching collections are maintained, in connection with the several 

 science departments of the university as follows: 



Botany. A herbarium of 23,000 sheets; 1200 alcoholic museum 

 specimens il 1 ustrating comparative morphol ogy ; an extensive collection 

 of alcoholic specimens for class use; a set of De Royle botanical models; 

 and a botanic garden including 3200 species of living plants. 



Geology. An exhibition series of 20,000 minerals, representing 

 nearly all known species and including the Genth, Cope, Howell, Clay, 

 Bement, and Cardeza collections; 2000 specimens of rocks illustrating 

 the typical formations of America and Europe; 2000 specimens of 

 economic geology, including ores from all the principal western mining 

 localities; and a series illustrating historical geology. 



Paleontology. 15,000 specimens, including a series of fossils 

 from the paleozoic formations of New York, some of which are the 

 type specimens described in the Paleontology of New York; a dupli- 

 cate set of a part of the invertebrate fossils collected by the geological 

 survey of Pennsylvania; cretaceous fossils from the western states; 

 cenozoic and mesozoic fossils from the Gulf and Atlantic coasts. There 

 are also monographic collections of certain groups, e.g., Bryozoaby 

 Ulric, and Ostracoda by Bassler. 



