of 16 sections crossing New Hampshire and Vermont; and 1500 specimens illustrating the distribution of drift material in New England. There is also an economic collection of 2500 specimens, illustrating the occurrence of gold and silver in Montana, marbles, slates, and granites of New Hampshire and Vermont, and a series of petroleum specimens from 100 localities.

PALEONTOLOGY. An extensive collection of fossil footprints (jurassic) made by Professor Hitchcock; devonian and silurian fishes, collected by Professor Patten; one of the James Hall collections of New York fossils; and several Ward casts of large vertebrate fossils.

HOPKINTON:

NEW HAMPSHIRE ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY.

This society maintains a collection of Indian relics, idols, old china and pewter, coins, geological specimens, manuscripts, old furniture, antique costumes, portraits, old-fashioned tools and utensils, etc. The society occupies a building erected in 1890 by Mrs. Lucia Long. The museum is installed in a large hall on the second floor and is in charge of Sarah U. Kimball, curator. The rooms are open free to the public two afternoons a week in summer, but are seldom open in winter for lack of heat and light.

KEENE:

KEENE HIGH SCHOOL.

The principal reports that the school has teaching collections comprising a herbarium of 500 specimens of flowering plants and ferns of New Hampshire, 2000 minerals, 150 fossils, and 3000 zoological specimens, including mounted mammals and birds, skulls and skeletons, shells and insects, and a small series of corals and reptiles.

MANCHESTER:

MANCHESTER HISTORIC ASSOCIATION. (452 Merrimack St.) This association has a small historical collection in connection with its library.

MANCHESTER INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES.

In addition to class work in fine arts, handicraft, etc., the institute has a herbarium of 3000 sheets of local phanerogams, in charge of Frederick W. Batchelder, and a fairly extensive collection of insects, in charge of E. J. Burnham. In 1902 the institute lost by fire a more extensive museum of mineralogy, zoology, and botany. The collections are in charge of William H. Huse, curator.

NEW JERSEY

FLEMINGTON:

HUNTERDON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

The society has a small historical collection now in storage, awaiting the erection of a new library building.

HACKENSACK:

BERGEN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY..

This society maintains a museum of local historical material, including household and similar utensils; letters, diaries, manuscripts, deeds, and other legal documents; revolutionary war relics; costumes; and a collection of Indian arrowheads and implements. There is also a valuable musical collection, including a very old harpsichord. The museum is receiving frequent additions.

NEWARK:

NEW JERSEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY. (16 West Park Street.) The society maintains a small museum comprising for the most part objects of local historical interest.

THE NEWARK MUSEUM ASSOCIATION. The Newark Museum. The property of the museum at present occupies rooms in the public library, and consists of a collection of Japanese art objects, numbering about 2000 specimens; lacquers; prints; porcelains, both Chinese and Japanese; paintings; textiles; armor; ivories; and metal work, bought by the city and held in trust by the Museum Association for the people of the city of Newark.

The Newark Museum Association is a corporation formed in April, 1909, to establish a museum for the reception and exhibition of articles of art, science, history, and technology, and for the encouragement of the study of the arts and sciences.

The museum was opened to the public on February 24, 1910. At that time the Japanese collection and a loan collection of American paintings and sculpture were shown by the museum.

The control is vested in a board of trustees. There is at present no fixed appropriation for maintenance. The income is from a system of membership.

The museum publishes a bulletin, "The Newark Museum," vol. I beginning February, 1910.

NEW BRUNSWICK:

RUTGERS COLLEGE. Museums.

STAFF. Curators, J. A. Volney Lewis (geology), J. C. Van Dyke (art); Assistant Curator, W. S. Valiant (geology).

ANTHROPOLOGY. The Frazee collection of about 1500 paleolithic and neolithic implements and ornaments.

ART AND BOTANY. No information received.

GEOLOGY. Minerals, on exhibition, 14,000, in storage, 4000; Rocks, 2500. This department includes the Lewis C. Beck collection of 3000 minerals, which has remained intact from the period of its collection, 1820-1847, and the Albert H. Chester collection of 5000 minerals. New Jersey material forms a large part of these collections.

PALEONTOLOGY. Invertebrates, 5750±; Vertebrates, 250; Plants, 250. There are in storage, 1000+ invertebrate and vertebrate fossils, and 150 type and figured specimens. Exhibits of special interest include the Mannington mastodon, said to be the largest specimen known; and a slab of triassic sandstone, 8 x 18 feet, from Morris County, New Jersey, showing the footprints of 15 species of din

osaurs.

ZOOLOGY. Shells, 17,000. There are also a Japanese spider crab, Marocheirus camperi, said to be the largest known; a mounted skeleton of a right whale; and a general teaching collection.

HISTORICAL SKETCH. The nucleus of the museum is the collection of the students' natural history society of Rutgers College, founded in 1857 by the late Dr. George H. Cooke. The museum was the headquarters of the state geological survey from 1864 to 1889, while Dr. Cooke was state geologist, and thus acquired full collections of the rocks, minerals, and fossils of the state.

FINANCIAL SUPPORT. From the general funds of the college. BUILDING. The geological museum occupies a building erected by the college in 1871 at a cost of $63,000, and providing 4704 square feet of floor space for exhibition, and 768 for offices, etc. The art and botanical collections, and the zoological teaching collections are housed in the rooms devoted to those departments.

SCOPE. College teaching, exploration, research, maintenance of local collections, and instruction of the general public.

LIBRARY. The geological museum has a reference collection of about 1000 volumes intended for the use of the staff and students.

ATTENDANCE. Open free to the public daily except Sundays. The attendance is estimated at 2000 a year exclusive of students.

PRINCETON:

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY. Museum.

STAFF. Executive committee, William Libbey (chairman), Gilbert Van Ingen (secretary), C. E. W. McClure, W. M. Rankin, A. H. Phillips. Department of geology: Curators, William Libbey (director of E. M. Museum of Geology and Archaeology), Marcus S. Farr (vertebrate paleontology), Gilbert Van Ingen (invertebrate paleontology), W. J. Sinclair (geology), A. H. Phillips (mineralogy). Department of biology: Curators, W. M. Rankin (botany), C. E. Silvester (zoology), W. E. D. Scott (ornithology). 3 janitors.

ANTHROPOLOGY. America is represented by the pottery and human remains of the mound builders; by several hundred specimens of Mexican and Peruvian pottery; and by a number of recent Indian relics. The ethnological collections, chiefly from Alaska and New Mexico, presented by Dr. Sheldon Jackson to the Theological Seminary of Princeton, have been transferred to this museum by the trustees of that institution, with the consent of the donor. There is also a series of models of the cliff dwellings and pueblos of the Southwest. Extensive series of anthropological material, comprising household utensils, hunting implements, etc., illustrating very fully the domestic life of the Esquimau of the West Greenland coast. A collection of relics from the Swiss lake dwellings representing fully the various localities in Switzerland, particularly Neuchâtel, and containing a large number of type specimens from the collection of Dr. Gross, who for a long time was associated with the work of recovering these relics from the dwelling sites in the Swiss lakes. Localities in Norway and Denmark representing the culture of this same epoch are also represented.

An extensive collection, gathered by the Rev. Robert Hamill Nassau, of the class of 1854, at Batanga, West Africa, illustrates in full the dress, implements of warfare, household utensils and articles of adornment of the natives of the German Possessions in the Cameroon.

BOTANY. These collections include, beside certain illustrative specimens, models, and charts, a herbarium of mounted plants, comprising 4000 sheets of New Jersey flora; some 40,000 sheets of plants from the United States, South America, Europe, and Asia; and 10,000 sheets of mosses, recently acquired from Dr. Per Dusén of Sweden.

GEOLOGY. Minerals, on exhibition, 2000+, in storage, 5000±; teaching collections in petrology and economic and structural geology, about 10,000 stratigraphic geology, about 10,000; relief maps, models, etc., 1000. The collections contain a unique series of about 10,000

specimens of erratic boulders gathered by the late Dr. Arnold Guyot during his studies of the glaciers of Switzerland. Typical rocks and fossils represent the stratigraphic series described by the geological surveys of New Jersey and New York. A collection of minerals, chiefly crystals, bequeathed to the university by the late Archibald MacMartin of New York, is noteworthy because of the perfection of the specimens and the number of localities represented in each species. The collections in economic and structural geology and petrology stand in tray racks in the laboratories, are designed chiefly for use in laboratory instruction, and to that end are arranged in accordance with the systems adopted in the text-books used. The series illustrating the courses in structural geology and economic geology from the theoretical point of view are especially interesting.

PALEONTOLOGY. Invertebrates, on exhibition, 7000±, in storage, 100,000±, types and figured specimens, 400; Vertebrates, on exhibition, 1000±, in storage, 3000±, types and figured specimens, 500±; Plants, on exhibition, 1000±, in storage, 5000±, types and figured specimens, 100±. The collections include skeletons of a mastodon, an Irish deer, a cave bear, and some of the extinct birds of New Zealand, as well as the skulls of Uintatherium and a remarkably complete and unique skeleton of Cervalces from northern New Jersey. A synop

tic collection of vertebrate and invertebrate fossils from North America and Europe illustrates the principal organic forms of the geological epochs. Included in this series are the tertiary fossils, many of which are type specimens, gathered in the West by the various Princeton. expeditions. An extensive series of fossil insects and plants from the oligocene shales of Florissant, Colorado, includes many of the types described by Lesquereux.

Among recent acquisitions there are extensive series of miocene fossils from Yorktown, Virginia; collections illustrating the stratigraphic paleontology of the Appalachian region; and the collections of vertebrate and invertebrate fossils secured by Hatcher and Peterson from miocene strata of Patagonia, now being studied and described by several authors in the reports of the Princeton University expeditions to Patagonia, edited by Professor William B. Scott and published by the university. The paleobotanical material is enriched by the Mansfield collection of carboniferous plants from Pennsylvania.

ZOOLOGY. These collections are especially rich in osteological and ornithological material. The former includes a large number of mounted and disarticulated skeletons of fishes, reptiles, birds, and mammals. The collections of mounted and unmounted bird skins include