288 DIRECTORY OF AMERICAN MUSEUMS 



Scope. Maintenance of local collections, college teaching, and 

 research. 



Library. 2000 bound volumes and 4200 pamph ets relating chiefly 

 to zoology and intended for the use of the staff. 



Publications. Occasional contributions from the museum are 

 published in the Baylor University Bulletin. 



Attendance. Open free to the public daily except Sunday from 

 8 to 5. No statistics of attendance are available. 



UTAH 



SALT LAKE CITY: < 

 DESERET MUSEUM. 



Staff. President and curator, James E. Talmage. 



Anthropology. Archeology, native, 5oo± , foreign, 5o± ; Eth- 

 nology, native, iooo±, foreign, 5oo±. This department includes a 

 large collection of desiccated human remains and artifacts from the 

 cliff dwellings in Utah. 



Botany. A set of about 150 large papier-mache models of plants. 



Geology. Minerals, 6oo± ; Rocks, ioo± ; Dynamic geology, relief 

 maps, models, etc., 5o±. This department has about 25 tons of the 

 large geodes of Wayne County, with selenite crystals. 



Paleontology. Invertebrates, 35oo± ; Vertebrates, 3 5o± ; Plants, 

 250*. 



Zoology. Shells, 25oo±; Insects, iooo±; Other invertebrates, 

 5oo±; Fishes, 5o±; Batrachians, 2o±; Reptiles, 5o±; Birds, 4.oo±; 

 Mammals, ioo±. 



Historical Sketch. The museum was established about 1870 

 under the name of the Salt Lake Museum. In 1S85 it became the pro- 

 perty of the Salt Lake Literary and Scientific Association under its 

 present name Later it passed into the possession of the Church of 

 Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, under which it has since been admin- 

 istered. Since 1903 the museum has been closed to the public owing to 

 the lack of a suitable building. A new fireproof building is now in 

 course of construction and it is expected that the greater part of the 

 museum collections will be installed in the summer of 19 10. 



Financial Support. Hitherto by appropriations from church 

 funds. 



Building. The building in course of erection in 1910 will pro- 

 vide 8200 square feet of floor space for exhibition, and 4000 for offices, 

 workrooms, etc. 



