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SOUTH BETHLEHEM: 



LEHIGH UNIVERSITY. 



The university maintains teaching collections in connection with 

 its scientific departments as follows: Anthropology, iooo weapons 

 and implements of North American Indians; Botany, a collection of 

 1000 specimens in addition to a series of commercial woods; Geology, 

 15,000 minerals and 5500 rocks and ores; Paleontology, a synoptic 

 collection of 3000 specimens; Zoology, a synoptic collection of 1500 

 specimens, the Werner collection of 600 North and South. American 

 birds, nests, and eggs; and the Packer collection of 1000 shells. 



STATE COLLEGE: 



PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE. 



The college maintains museum collections in connection with a 

 number of its departments as follows: 



Botany. Phanerogams, 4000; Seeds, 1500 species; Woods of 

 Pennsylvania from the state forestry exhibit at the World's Columbian 

 Exposition. 



Chemistry. 3500 specimens of chemical products. 



Geology. Minerals, 10,000; Rocks, series of European rocks, 

 rocks of Pennsylvania, United States geological survey collection of 

 200 rock types; Historical geology, a general stratigraphic series col- 

 lected by the first and second geological surveys of Pennsylvania; 

 Economic geology, 5000 specimens including the Pennsylvania exhibit 

 of ores, minerals, and economic products at the World's Columbian 

 Exposition, a polylith of 281 building stones of Pennsylvania and else- 

 where, Colorado ores, Lake -Superior iron ores, and German economic 

 minerals and rocks. 



History. Material, chiefly manuscripts and photographs, show- 

 ing the beginning of the college and the growth of 50 years. 



Paleontology. 2000 specimens. 



Zoology. Shells, on exhibition, 100, in storage, 500; Insects, 

 on exhibition, 1500, in storage, 3000; Other invertebrates, on exhibi- 

 tion, 100, in storage, 500; Fishes, on exhibition, 300, in storage, 300; 

 Batrachians, on exhibition, 50, in storage, 50; Reptiles, on exhibition, 

 50, in storage, 50; Birds, on exhibition, 200, in storage, 300; Mammals, 

 on exhibition, 75, in storage, 50. The preceding figures are approxi- 

 mate. The series of Pennsylvania vertebrates is nearly complete. 



