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WORCESTER NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. (12 State Street.) The society occupies an old-time residence in which it maintains a museum in charge of Herbert D. Braman, superintendent, and Mrs. Ella L. Horr, custodian. The collections are strictly local and include a good herbarium of ferns, lycopods, grasses, sedges, mosses, lichens, liverworts, and flowering plants of Worcester County; the Eliza D. Dodge collection of birds of the county, mounted in natural surroundings and housed at the Mansion House in Green Hill Park for lack of room in the State Street building; a small but representative collection of local minerals; and a good collection of invertebrate and vertebrate animals of the county. A wild flower exhibit properly labeled is kept on tables in the museum during the flowering season; a garden of local ferns is maintained on the grounds of the society; and classes for the study of different groups of plants, rocks, minerals, insects, etc. in the field and at the museum are maintained every year. Successful bird classes are also conducted at the museum and in the field; bird skins are mounted in celluloid tubes and loaned to schools. Small cases showing the life history of destructive insects are used for public school work. A library of about 600 volumes on science and nature study is maintained for reference.

The society has some invested funds but is supported largely by private subscription and membership fees. The publications of the society include (1) Annual Reports. (2) "Physical Geography of Worcester," by J. H. Perry. (3) "The Geology of Worcester," by J. H. Perry. (4) "Flora of Lake Quinsigamond," by G. E. Stone. (5) "Catalog of the flowering plants and ferns in Worcester County," by J. H. Jackson.

The museum is open free to the public on week-days, except holidays, from 9 to 12 and 2 to 5. The attendance is 6000-8000 yearly.

WORCESTER SOCIETY OF ANTIQUITY.

No information has been received regarding this society, which is said by Thwaites to maintain a museum of about 6000 pieces illustrating especially the epochs of the various wars.

ADRIAN:

MICHIGAN

ADRIAN COLLEGE.

The registrar reports that the museum contains a small collection of animals, birds, insects, and minerals. There is no list or catalog, no curator, and no regular financial support.

ALMA:

ALMA COLLEGE. Francis A. Hood Museum.

STAFF. The museum is in charge of H. M. MacCurdy, professor of biology.

GEOLOGY AND PALEONTOLOGY. A general collection of about 2500 rocks, minerals, etc., and the Alexander Winchell collection of over 6000 rocks, minerals, and fossils, many of which were collected in Michigan and described by Dr. Winchell; the Shroyer-Wilcox collection of several thousand paleozoic fossils, representing about 1000 species, those of the Cincinnati group being especially well represented.

ZOOLOGY. A general collection estimated to contain 2000 specimens of vertebrate and invertebrate material; the Stillwell collection of about 300 Michigan birds and mammals, collected for the most part in the vicinity of the college and representing some species now extinct or very rare in that locality; and the W. S. Crawford collection of birds from Florida, Arizona, and Michigan.

FINANCIAL SUPPORT. The museum has had no regular income in the past, but beginning in 1910 the college will set aside $50 annually from incidental funds for museum purposes.

HISTORICAL SKETCH. In 1897 the museum was formally opened in a room of the gymnasium building, the installation being made possible by gifts of Mrs. Francis A. Hood of Saginaw and her son, in memory of Francis A. Hood. In 1900 the museum was transferred to the building which it now occupies. The special collections of the museum have been acquired partly by purchase and partly by gift.

BUILDING. Erected in 1900 and affording 3500 square feet of floor space for exhibition, and 1500 for storage, workrooms, etc.

ATTENDANCE. Open free to the public on Tuesday and Saturday afternoons from 1.30 to 3.30. No statistics of attendance are available.

ANN ARBOR:

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN. Museum.

STAFF. Director, Jacob Reighard; Curator, Alexander G. Ruthven; Preparator, Norman A. Wood; I assistant and 1 janitor.

ANTHROPOLOGY. Uncivilized peoples: Archeology, foreign, 300±; Ethnology, native 600±, foreign, 250±. Civilized peoples, modern, 1500±. This department includes the Beal-Steere collection of arms, implements, carpenters' tools, musical instruments, and idols of the Chinese; many articles domestic and warlike used by North American Indians and natives of the South Pacific Islands; clothing of the American Indians, modern Peruvians, Formosans, and natives of the East

Indies and Alaska; casts from Europe and the Ohio mounds; pottery from the cliff dwellers of New Mexico and Arizona; the Daniel DePue collection chiefly from Washtenaw County, Michigan; a fine collection of flint instruments from Denmark; and an extensive collection of Peruvian burial pottery secured by the Beal-Steere expedition. There is also the Frederick Stearns collection of 1400 musical instruments representing nearly all types of all nations and ages, collected with reference to its educational value as illustrating the evolution of modern types; and the Chinese exhibit of the New Orleans cotton exposition illustrating the culture and manufacture of cotton and its use in garments, native-made household furniture, and house and garden pottery.

BOTANY. 100,000 specimens representing 5000 species and including large series of Michigan plants collected by the public surveys; the Houghton, Sager, Ames, Harrington, Beal-Steere, Adams-Jewett, and the Garrigues herbaria; Holden's and Setchell's Phycotheca Boreali-Americana; Briosi and Cavara's parasitic fungi; Seymour and Earle's economic fungi; the continuation of Ellis's North American fungi and large additions to the cryptogamic flora of Michigan.

GEOLOGY. Minerals, 6000, including the Lederer collection of 2500 specimens, principally European; rich series of Michigan minerals, including all varieties of copper ores and associated minerals from the Lake Superior region. Also an economic collection, including a series of foreign and domestic building stones from the Smithsonian Institution; a series illustrating the metalliferous region of the upper peninsula of Michigan; 150 specimens of ores and rocks, 39 of copper ore and associated rocks from the Wolverine copper mine, 7 of native copper from the Calumet and Hecla mines, 25 of asphaltum and petroleum, and samples of brine and salt from Percy's salt well in Mason County. There is a good collection in dynamic geology and a series of relief maps, models, and lantern slides.

PALEONTOLOGY. 95,000 specimens, nearly all invertebrates, including a large series from the geological survey of the state, of which more than 100 are type specimens; the White collection of 1018 catalog entries; the Rominger collection of 5000 species, including types of all the paleozoic corals described by Dr. Rominger in the third. volume of the geologic report of Michigan; and many other series.

ZOOLOGY. Shells, on exhibition, 13,000, in storage, 50,000±; Insects, on exhibition, 500, in storage, 50,000±, co-types, 9; Other invertebrates, on exhibition, 500, in storage, 2000±; Fishes, in storage, 6864; Batrachians, in storage, 1345; Reptiles, on exhibition, 21, in

storage, 1398; Birds, on exhibition, 1545, in storage, 6589, types, 44; Mammals, on exhibition, 226, in storage, 1018; Bird eggs, 2445, nests, 261, stomachs, 1532. 53 small groups of animals are exhibited in natural surroundings.

FINANCIAL SUPPORT. The museum receives an average of $3371 a year from the university, which in turn is supported by the state. BUILDING. The museum occupies 8214 square feet of floor space for exhibition in a building erected in 1881 at a cost of $50,000.

SCOPE. Exploration and research (principally on state problems), school and college teaching, and maintenance of local collections. Systematic collections of Michigan animals are supplied to schools of the state. The museum is the depository of the collections and records of the state biological survey.

PUBLICATIONS. (1) Annual reports of the curator to the board of regents. (2) Reprints of papers published by the staff and others on the museum collections are purchased and sent to persons and institutions on the museum exchange list.

ATTENDANCE. The museum is open free to the public daily except Sundays from 8 to 5.

DETROIT:

DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND BOULEVARDS.

This department maintains in Belle Isle Park an aquarium and zoölogical garden, in charge of an executive officer appointed by the mayor. The aquarium contains a collection of living fishes which is said to be the third largest known, and which is maintained at an annual expense of about $11,000. The zoological garden contains 60 birds and 107 mammals which are maintained at an annual expense of about $6000. These collections are open free to the public and the attendance exceeds 800,000 annually.

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DETROIT MUSEUM OF ART.

STAFF. Director, A. H. Griffith; Assistant director, C. H. Burroughs; Curators, Garfield Jenney, Charles Williams, Ernest Covington, H. Alger; Librarian, Fred LaPointe; I engineer and I watchman. ANTHROPOLOGY. A good collection in archeology and ethnology. ART. A fine collection of casts and marbles; about 2000 prints and engravings; an important collection of old masters as well as many modern paintings; 40 water colors; a very large collection of ceramics and oriental material; and a small collection of textiles.

OTHER COLLECTIONS. A small collection of minerals and fossils; a large collection of shells; and small collections of insects and birds.

FINANCIAL SUPPORT. The museum receives an annual appropriation of $1800 from the city, and about $2000 a year from private subscriptions which are used as a picture fund.

BUILDING. The building covers about 20,000 square feet of ground and is three stories high; it was erected in 1888 at a cost of $160,000, met partly by subscription and partly by city appropriation. A new site and a new building are now under consideration.

ADMINISTRATION. By a director, responsible to a board of trustees through its executive committee.

SCOPE. Instruction of the public through exhibition, lectures, etc. A series of Sunday afternoon lectures on art, given during the winter months for the last 17 years, draws audiences which crowd an auditorium accommodating 1000 persons, and as many more are frequently turned away. Lectures are given through the week to public school classes which come to the museum.

LIBRARY. 1000 volumes on art, travel, etc., for use of both staff and public.

PUBLICATIONS. (1) A bulletin issued quarterly. (2) Annual reports. (3) Catalogs and handbooks issued at irregular intervals. ATTENDANCE. Open free to the public on week-days and Sunday afternoons. The attendance is about 170,000 a year.

EAST LANSING:

MICHIGAN AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.

The college maintains a museum in connection with the department of zoology and geology, in charge of Walter B. Barrows, head of the department. The collections comprise about 1000 Indian relics; 2000 minerals and ores; 1000 fossils; the Ward series of casts of fossils; approximately 75,000 native and foreign insects, in charge of the professor of entomology; and the following other zoological collections, 50 mounted fishes, 1100 mounted birds, 2000 bird skins, 150 mounted mammals, and 30 mounted vertebrate skeletons. Special effort has been made to render the local exhibits as complete as possible. The museum occupies a main exhibition hall affording about 2475 square feet of floor space. It is supported from the general funds of the college and is open free to the public daily from 8 to 5 and on Sundays from 2 to 5. The average daily attendance is estimated to be about 35; in several instances there have been over 4000 visitors in a single day.

In addition to the collections described above, there is a series of botanical specimens and woods in the department of botany.

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