BUFFALO SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCES 285 



Botany. Cryptogams, icoo; Phanerogams, 2000. There are fair 

 collections of seeds, woods, etc. For teaching purposes there is a full 

 set of German charts and specially prepared lantern slides. 



Chemistry. 200 museum preparations. 



Geology. Minerals, 6ooo±; Rocks, 25oo±; Dynamic geology, 

 relief maps, models, etc., 5oo±; Economic collections, ioo±. 



Paleontology. Invertebrates, i5,ooo±; Vertebrates, 25o±; 

 Plants, 75o±. 



Pharmacognosy. 800 specimens of drugs. 



Zoology. Shells, 200; Insects, 1000; Other invertebrates, 200; 

 Fishes, 500; Batrachians, 100; Reptiles, 250; Birds, 200; Mammals, 

 50. There is a good collection of skulls of the lower vertebrates and 

 man. There are also charts, lantern slides, etc. 



Financial Support. The various collections are supported from 

 the funds allotted to each department by the university. 



Building. The exhibits are in different buildings, each with the 

 corresponding department of the university. 



Scope. College teaching. 



WALDEN UNIVERSITY. 



The bursar reports that the university does not maintain a muse- 

 um, but its collections are said by Merrill to comprise 150 ethnological 

 specimens from Africa, a collection of coins and currency, a herbarium 

 of 300 specimens representing 150 species, 400 minerals, 100 fossils, 

 and a zoological collection, including a general series of 116 mounted 

 birds, a study series of 400 birds of Colorado and Tennessee, 50 sets 

 of bird eggs, 8000 insects, etc. 



ZOOLOGICAL PARK. 



This park, occupying 5 acres, was established in 1902 and contains 

 3 reptiles, 31 birds, and 295 mammals. 



TEXAS 



AUSTIN: 



UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS. Museum of Economic Geology. 



This museum is a part of the bureau of economic geology of the 

 University of Texas, and is in charge of William B. Phillips, director 

 of the bureau. The foundation of the museum is the collections made 

 by the geological survey of Texas from 1888 to 1892 when the survey 

 was discontinued. In 1901 a mineral survey was established by the 

 legislature in connection with the university and continued till 1905, 

 when it was also suspended. The valuable material gathered by these 



