1908.] NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 635 
(on deposit), Pursh, de Schweinitz, Nuttall, Short, and Charles E. 
Smith. The Fungi, Mosses, Lichens and Alga; number about 50,000 
specimens and include the collections of Sullivant, de Schweinitz, 
Eckfeldt, Ashmead, Martin, Ellis and Everhart, Herbst and Rex. 
Both departments of the Herbarium are rich in types. 
There is also a local Herbarium presented by the Philadelphia 
Botanical Club, which contains about 20,000 specimens. 
The Palieontological collections comprise some 5,000 specimens 
of Vertebrates and 45,000 Invertebrates, of which 3,000 belong to the 
collection of the Pennsylvania Geological Survey (on deposit) and 
7,500 to the Isaac Lea collection; also 1,500 fossil plants. There are 
many types of Leidy and Cope among the vertebrates and of Lea, 
Conrad, Gabb and Heilprin among the invertebrates. 
The general collection of minerals consists of 8,500 specimens, while 
the William S. Vaux collection contains about 7,500 additional. Of 
rock specimens there are over 10,000 in the Pennsylvania Geological 
Survey collection and about 3,000 additional. 
The general Archaeological and Ethnological department contains 
about 14,000 specimens, including the Samuel G. Morton collection of 
human crania; the Peale Hawaiian collection, the Haldeman American 
Indian collection and the Poinsett Mexican collection (on deposit). 
The Clarence B. Moore collection of Indian antiquities from mounds 
of the Southern States includes some 5,000 specimens, the basis of 
Mr. Moore’s papers in the Journal of the Academy. The William 
S. Vaux collection contains 2,500 specimens, largely from North 
America and Europe. 
Summary. 
Mammals, 12,416 
Birds, 59,579 
Reptiles, IS, 000 
Fishes, 40,000 
Insects, 369,000 
Mollusks, 1,575,000 
Other Invertebrates, 1 1,500 
Herbarium, 654,000 
Fossils 46,500 
Minerals, 29,000 
Archaeology and Ethnology, 21,500 
Total, 2,836,495 
Samuel G. Dixon, 
Henry A. Pilsbry. 
