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VERMILION: 



UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA. 



No reply has been received to repeated requests for information 

 regarding the museum of this college, which is said by Merrill to include 

 1200 botanical specimens, 700 minerals, 400 ores, 300 rock specimens, 

 1 1 25 fossils representing 500 species, and 900 zoological specimens. 



TENNESSEE 

 CHATTANOOGA: 



ZOOLOGICAL PARK. 



The city maintains a zoological park of 3 acres, established in 1896, 

 containing 17 reptiles, 86 birds, and 60 mammals. 



CLARKSVILLE: 



SOUTHWESTERN PRESBYTERIAN UNIVERSITY. 



A teaching collection, including about 6000 minerals, a large col- 

 lection of rocks and fossils, 16,000 shells, and 500 herbarium speci- 

 mens. 



KNOXVILLE: 



UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE. 



The university has teaching collections in connection with the 

 scientific departments and under the charge of the heads of the depart- 

 ments. The most important collection is the herbarium, which includes 

 30,000 specimens, among these being many types of Chapman, Gat- 

 tinger, Scribner, and others. The geological department has collec- 

 tions of minerals, rocks, fossils, ores, and building stones, with a col- 

 lection of the minerals, ores, and building materials of Tennessee in pre- 

 paration. In zoology there are several thousand insects and a small 

 synoptic collection of other groups. In anthropology there is a small 

 collection of Indian stone implements and relics. Prof. C. H. Gordon 

 is in charge of geology, and Prof. Samuel M. Bain in charge of botany. 



LEBANON: 



CUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY. 



The university maintains the following teaching collections in 

 charge of Kate A. Hinds, professor of natural science: About 600 

 minerals and a collection of rocks from the United States geological 

 survey; 1500 fossils and several casts of fossils; and small collections 

 of dried and alcoholic zoological specimens, with 500 species of Japan- 

 ese shells. 



