296 DIRECTORY OF AMERICAN MUSEUMS 



NORFOLK: 



ZOOLOGICAL PARK. 



The city maintains a zoological park of 3 acres, established in 1901, 

 containing 6 reptiles, 133 birds, and 48 mammals. 



RICHMOND : 



DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND IMMIGRATION. 

 Museum. 



This department maintains a museum in the capitol, comprising 

 handsomely installed exhibits of the fruits, grains, etc., and the birds 

 and animals of Virginia. The exhibit is open free to the public when- 

 ever the capitol is open and the attendance is 35,000-50,000 a year. 



CONFEDERATE MEMORIAL LITERARY SOCIETY. 



This society maintains a museum of Confederate war relics in the 

 " White House of the Confederacy." A room in this building is main- 

 tained by each of the Confederate states in which are exhibited its 

 war relics, in charge of a resident vice-regent. The formal opening 

 of the building took place in 1896; the funds for restoration, fireproof- 

 ing, and steam-heating having been raised by a memorial bazaar. The 

 museum is open to the public on week-days from 9 to 5; admission is 

 free on Saturdays but on other days a fee of 25 cents is charged. 



R. E. LEE CAMP NO. 1 CONFEDERATE VETERANS. 



The camp has a gallery containing about 87 oil portraits of prom- 

 inent soldiers of the Confederacy, including nearly every officer of the 

 army of northern Virginia and many officers of the army of Ten- 

 nessee. The collection is in charge of the camp, W. S. Archer, com- 

 mander, and J. Taylor Stratton, adjutant. 



RICHMOND COLLEGE. 



A series of casts of celebrated statuary, paintings, objects of eth- 

 nographical interest, etc., is installed in a hall affording about 4000 

 square feet of floor space. The collection is in charge of C. H. Ryland, 

 curator, and is maintained from the general funds of the college. It 

 is open to visitors as well as to the college. 



THE VALENTINE MUSEUM. (11th and Clay Sts.) 



Anthropology. The collections were made and presented b} 

 Granville G. Valentine, Benjamin B. Valentine, and Edward P. Val- 

 entine, and consist chiefly of surface finds (pipes, ceremonial stones, 

 discoidal stones, arrow and spear heads, etc.), and objects from the 

 mounds of Virginia and North Carolina. There is also a collection of 



