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Commerce and Industry. Commercial material illustrating 

 the lumber industry and timber products, fishing, clay products of 

 the state, etc. 



Education. Examples of primary school work, 1000+ ; of gram- 

 mar school work, 4900+ ; of high school work, 800+ ; of college work, 



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Geography. A large Alaska panorama, which is a composite 



of Alaskan scenery and is said to be the finest of the kind in the United 



States; 2 smaller cycloramas of scenes in the Yellowstone National 



Park; a small cyclorama of a hydraulic mining scene in Alaska; and 



about 20 paintings of Alaskan scenery. 



Geology. Minerals, on exhibition, 3800, in storage, 40 tons; 

 Rocks, on exhibition, 500+ , in storage, 4 tons; Relief maps, models, 

 etc., 20+ ; Clay products, building stones, etc., 500. This department 

 includes the valuable Baker collection of 1000 minerals, and very com- 

 plete sets of the rocks and minerals of Washington. 



History. A small collection of material pertaining to American 

 history, especially of the Northwest and Alaska. 



Paleontology. Invertebrates, on exhibition, 5000, in storage, 

 io,coo, types, 35; Vertebrates, on exhibition, 30; Plants, on exhibition, 

 20c, in storage, 2000. This department includes the Henshaw col- 

 lection of silurian fossils from the Ohio region, and a synoptic series of 

 invertebrates from Ward. Among material not worked up is a 

 series of marine invertebrates of western Washington, a complete 

 collection of brackish-water invertebrates, and a collection of tertiary 

 plants of western Washington. ' 



Zoology. Shells, on exhibition, 2000, in storage, 12,000; Insects, 

 on exhibition, 1000, in storage, 30,000, types, 100; Other inverte- 

 brates, on exhibition, 500, in storage, 10,000, types, 25; Fishes, on 

 exhibition, 200, in storage, 1000; Batrachians,on exhibition, 12, in stor- 

 age, 50+; Reptiles, on exhibition, 15+ , in storage, 4000; Birds, on 

 exhibition, 200, in storage, 8cc; Mammals, on exhibition, 25, in storage, 



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Historical Sketch. The nucleus of the museum is a small eth- 

 nological collection collected previous to 1880. To this was added in 

 1880 a series of fishes collected by Dr. Jordan. In 1883 this material 

 was turned over to the Young Naturalist's Society which erected a 

 building on the university campus and increased the museum. When 

 the university moved to its present location other collections were 

 secured and a curator appointed. In 1899 the state legislature created 

 the State Museum and provided that it should be located at the uni- 



