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collection of minerals has been so enriched, I think I am justified 
in saying that it ranks third in this country. We have the great 
collection of Prof. James Hall, that veteran scientist, whose name 
is a household word among all the scientists in this land and the 
world, and I am happy to say that we have him with us to-day 
on this platform. This celebrated collection represents the entire 
Palaeontological publications of this State ; it contains many 
thousands of types and figured specimens, and is full of instruc- 
tion and science. In the Department of Zoology, and of which 
Prof. Allen is Curator, we have the important collections of Prince 
Maximilian, of Lawrence, of Elliot and of Mearns. The De- 
partment of Archaeology and Ethnology, of which Mr. Terry is 
Curator, contains the famous collections of Emmons, Bishop, 
Sturgis, Jones and Terry ; the whole representing the Archaeology 
of all the United States, especially of the Pacific Coast. We have 
in our Department of Entomology, in charge of Mr. Beutenmuller, 
the Angus, Elliot and the Harry Edwards Collections. Prof. 
Henry F. Osborn, of Columbia College, is the lately appointed 
Curator of a new Department of Mammalian Palaeontology, with 
an efficient staff for field collection and museum work ; the pur- 
poses of which department is to secure for exhibition and study 
a complete series of Western fossil mammals from the earliest 
and smallest to the latest and largest that have appeared on the 
American Continent, and to illustrate especially the evolutions of 
the horse, rhinoceros and other existing animals. The Depart- 
ment of Public Instruction has been carried on under the auspices 
of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction since 1884, and 
during that time Prof. Albert S. Bickmore has delivered one 
hundred and fifty lectures upon the collections of the Museum 
and various countries which he has visited. These lectures are 
already repeated in the Normal Schools and Teachers Institutes 
throughout the State. Our library numbers twenty-six thousand 
volumes relating to natural history. The Bulletin of the Museum, 
now in its fourth volume, contains papers on a wide range of 
subjects, and takes a high rank among similar publications of 
scientific institutions. Guides to the collections give not only the 
places of specimens in each case, but form condensed hand-books 
of the subjects treated. 
