MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



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Your attention is called to the fact that recent additions, particularly 

 in the departments of Archaeology and Historical Relics, have made it 

 necessary to place some of the historical material on the main floor. Such 

 an arrangement is to be regretted, as thereby the systematic grouping of 

 the museum collections can no longer be maintained. It would be highly 

 desirable if special quarters could be provided for the historical material. 

 Not only would the natural history collections be given much needed room 

 and the demands for space met for several years, but a most interesting ex- 

 hibit bearing on local history be made possible. In such a historical room 

 valuable manuscripts now in possession of the library might well be dis- 

 played. 



In Memoriam. 



An early friend of the museum and an ardent lover and devoted stu- 

 dent of nature has gone from us the past year in the death of Solomon 

 Stebbins. Mr. Stebbins for many years was curator of the collections. 

 He was an authority on the flora of this portion of the valley. His unselfish 

 interest in his work and his services to the natural history collections merit 

 this word of tribute. He was born in West Springfield, April 13, 1833, 

 and died in Springfield, March 27, 1904. 



