culating collections, lantern slides, and teachers' library, with supplements to some of these. ATTENDANCE. The museum and library are open free to teachers and pupils and to the general public on week-days from 9 to 5. The number of visitors for 1907-8 was 2770. MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY. (1600 Locust Street.) In addition to a historical library of about 12,000 volumes, this society maintains a museum comprising about 30,000 implements and utensils of American Indians-said to be one of the best collections of its kind in the United States; and a large collection of manuscripts and private and official documents. The museum is in charge of Idress Head, librarian, and occupies about 50,000 square feet of floor space in a three-story residence which is entirely inadequate for the proper display of the collections. It is expected that a new building will soon be available and an increased endowment. The society is at present supported by membership dues, private contributions, and the income from a small endowment. Both library and museum are open free to the public on week-days from 9 to 5. WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. In connection with the science departments of the university there are teaching collections which comprise about 6000 minerals, 3000 specimens of historical rocks and ores, 3000 classified fossils and many unclassified, and about 25,000 zoological specimens of all classes. The collections of the St. Louis School and Museum of Fine Arts, a department of the university, are loaned to the City Art Museum, subject to withdrawal at any time and labeled as property of Washington University. ZOOLOGICAL PARK. The city maintains a zoological park, established in 1903, containing 145 birds and 205 mammals. MONTANA BOZEMAN: MONTANA AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. The department of biology has a herbarium containing 3000 cryptogams and 8000+ phanerogams, including 400± types and figured specimens; in zoölogy there are 3000+ insects, including 50± types and figured specimens, also 500 other invertebrates, 100 fishes, 15 batrachians, 50 reptiles, 300 birds, and 20 mammals. This collection is in charge of R. A. Cooley, head of the department, D. B. Swingle, professor of botany, and M. H. Spaulding, professor of zoology. HELENA: MONTANA STATE LIBRARY. Museum. The library maintains a picture collection comprising 250 portraits, 35 group pictures, So miscellaneous pictures, and 400 photographs. There is also a rare collection of smoky quartz crystals, a series of woods and a complete collection of the flora of Montana, excellent mounted. specimens of native birds and mammals, and a large accumulation of objects of historical interest. These collections are exhibited in the corridors of the state capitol building, and are in charge of W. Y. Pemberton, librarian of the State Library. CRETE: NEBRASKA DOANE COLLEGE. Small teaching collections in biology and geology, including 100 local and 50 Indian birds; 40 small mammals; representative fossils and minerals; a shell collection; and a herbarium of flowering plants. For lack of space the collections are distributed in three separate buildings, and only a part are accessible. The museum is in charge of Carl O. Carlson, professor of biology, and will be installed in a new building in about a year. LINCOLN: NEBRASKA STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Museum. STAFF. Secretary of the society, C. S. Paine; Archeologist in charge of the museum, E. E. Blackman. ANTHROPOLOGY. Uncivilized peoples: Archeology, native, 20,000, foreign, small collection; Ethnology, native, 5000, foreign, small collection. Civilized peoples, modern, 3000. There are also phonographic records of Indian music. ART. A very small collection comprising a few paintings and portraits and 2000 photographs. HISTORY. About 1000 objects, not increasing because of lack of space. HISTORICAL SKETCH. The museum began activity in 1901, chief attention being given to stone age implements of Nebraska and to Indian bead work. FINANCIAL SUPPORT. The society is supported by biennial appropriations of about $15,000 from the state legislature and an income from memberships amounting to about $1100. The society. expends about $1200 a year for maintenance of the museum. BUILDING. The museum occupies 625 square feet of floor space for exhibition in the library building of the state university. A new building for the society is under construction. ADMINISTRATION. The archeologist has immediate charge of the museum under the direction of the secretary of the society, who in turn is responsible to the executive board. SCOPE. The maintenance of local collections by exploration and research of the staff is the principal object of the museum. PUBLICATIONS. Museum reports are included in the publications of the society, of which 13 volumes have been issued. ATTENDANCE. Open free to the public on week-days from 8 to 5. The number of visitors is about 8000 a year. NEBRASKA STATE MUSEUM. STAFF. Curator, Erwin H. Barbour; Assistant curator, Carrie A. Barbour. Carpenters, janitors, engineers, electricians, etc., are supplied by the University of Nebraska. COLLECTIONS. Large forestry, fiber, and grain collections; a good working collection of minerals and rocks; large collections of invertebrate carboniferous fossils, miocene vertebrates from the Bad Lands, and plants from the Dakota group; zoological collections chiefly from Nebraska but with some material from Bermuda and the Baha mas. HISTORICAL SKETCH. The museum has been developed by the present curator from a very small beginning in 1891. Annual collecting expeditions have been made possible through the generosity of Hon. Charles H. Morrill. The collections were at first housed in two rooms in Science Hall but increased to such an extent that the floors weakened and the material was put in storage. The one completed wing of a new fireproof building is now overcrowded and material to fill the next wing is in storage. When completed the museum will cover two or three acres on the campus of the University of Nebraska. FINANCIAL SUPPORT. Maintained by the regents of the state university and by private subscriptions. BUILDING. The museum at present occupies 11,000 square feet of floor space for exhibition, and 3500 for offices, workrooms, etc. in a building erected in 1907-8 by the state at a cost of $55,000. ADMINISTRATION. By a curator, responsible to the board of regents of the University of Nebraska. SCOPE. The maintenance of local collections and the instruction of the general public are the purposes of the museum. ATTENDANCE. Open free to the public on week-days from 7.30 to 5.30. The attendance during the first year was 50,000. In addition to this museum there are teaching collections in the departments of art and botany. ZOOLOGICAL PARK. The city maintains a zoological park, established in 1905, containing 3 birds and 16 mammals. OMAHA: CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY. The university has a teaching collection of about 700 minerals; a small collection of Indian war bonnets, implements, and arms; and an astronomical observatory equipped for student work. These collections are in charge of William F. Rigge. OMAHA PUBLIC LIBRARY AND MUSEUM. The museum contains the Byron Reed collection of American and foreign coins, said to rank third in value and size in the United States when it was received in 1893. This collection occupies a room affording about 1800 square feet of floor space. There is also a general museum containing loan collections of Indian and Egyptian material; a collection of birds, shells, baskets, articles from the Philippines, etc.; and a collection of pictures purchased from the Trans-Mississippi Exposition. The museum is open free to the public on week-days and the average attendance is 100 a day. ZOOLOGICAL PARK. The city maintains a zoological park of 35 acres, established in 1897, containing 7 birds and 77 mammals. NEW HAMPSHIRE CONCORD: NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY. The society maintains a small historical collection in charge of the librarian. DURHAM: NEW HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE AND THE The department of zoology and entomology maintains a representative display of the birds of New Hampshire, together with collections of invertebrate animals, skeletons, models, and geological specimens in Thompson Hall. The nucleus of this museum is the collection of the state geological survey. The collection of insects is maintained by the Agricultural Experiment Station, and comprises about 20,000 specimens. The department of botany maintains a herbarium in Nesmith Hall. HANOVER: DARTMOUTH COLLEGE. Butterfield Museum. The museum occupies about 4300 square feet of floor space for exhibition in a building which is the gift of the late Dr. Ralph Butterfield, and which also contains the science departments of the college. The collections are in charge of the members of the respective departments: C. H. Hitchcock (geology), William Patten (zoölogy), and G. R. Lyman (botany). ANTHROPOLOGY. 500 aboriginal implements; 90 skulls and pieces of pottery of the mound builders; 400 specimens from Zululand, Alaska, and the South Sea Islands; many photographs of American Indians, and a full-size figure of Chief Joseph from the Smithsonian Institution; a few Roman antiquities; a collection of Burmese and Japanese antiquities; and 8 or 9 unusually fine sculptures from Nineveh, obtained by Dr. Wright about 1860. BOTANY. A general herbarium of 5000 species gathered by Prof. C. H. Hitchcock and rich in ferns and marine algae; 1000 specimens of wood sections, seeds, etc.; many mosses and hepaticae; the Trelease herbarium of several thousand phanerogams and ferns; and the H. G. Jesup herbarium. GEOLOGY. The Frederick Hall collection of 2000 minerals; 11,700 rocks, including 350 volcanic rocks from Vesuvius and the Hawaiian volcanoes; 200 massive igneous rocks; a special collection of 250 rocks from the New Hampshire geological survey; a general collection of 3500 New Hampshire and Vermont rocks; 1000 rocks from the White Mountains; 1100 from the Ammomoosuc district; 500 from the vicinity. of Hanover; 200 from the vicinities of Vernon, New Hampshire, and Bernardston, Massachusetts; a set of 3000 rocks, illustrating the geology |