Galapagos Islands; a large representation of the reptiles, batrachians, birds, and mammals, of California and adjoining states; and collections of marine invertebrates, rich in Pacific echinoderms and crustacea. There are also entomological collections containing authoritatively determined specimens in all of the insect orders; many sets of specimens illustrating development and habits of insects; the most important existing collection of North American Mallophaga, comprising the types of four-fifths of all species so far described from North America and the Pacific Islands; an unusually large collection of Coccidae; and a valuable series of specimens from the Galapagos Islands.

PASADENA:

THROOP POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE.

The institute has an excellent collection of minerals and collections of insects, birds, and mammals, in addition to alcoholic material. The only officer of the museum yet appointed is Charles F. Holder, honorary curator. The institute is about to move into a new building in which increased facilities will be provided for the museum.

SACRAMENTO:

CALIFORNIA MUSEUM ASSOCIATION.

STAFF. Curator, W. F. Jackson; 2 minor employees.

ART. E. B. Crocker Art Gallery. Sculpture, 7; Paintings, 701, including 119 miniatures.

HISTORY. A miscellaneous collection of 2000± uncataloged curios, relics, etc.

MINERALS. 2879 specimens, collected for the most part by Dr. H. W. Harkness, and purchased by the state.

HISTORICAL SKETCH. The Crocker Art Gallery was erected in 1870-73, at a cost of $235,000, by Judge E. B. and Mrs. Margaret E. Crocker and filled with their private art collections accumulated during travels in Europe, especially during the Franco-Prussian war. In 1884 the California Museum Association was formed to gather a museum of art and science and to study matters relating to the resources of California. To aid in securing a hall for its purposes, it gave an art loan exhibition in the Art Gallery by the kindness of Mrs. Margaret E. Crocker, widow of Judge Crocker. During the exhibition. Mrs. Crocker donated to the association the building and its contents, but later changed the gift so that the title is held by the city of Sacramento, with the California Museum Association as co-tenant and

administrator. The mineral collection is the property of the State of California.

FINANCIAL SUPPORT. Annual appropriations by the city, that for 1910 being $3000, exclusive of repairs.

ADMINISTRATION. By a curator, responsible to a joint board consisting of the mayor of the city and the directors of the California Museum Association.

PUBLICATIONS. Catalogs of paintings and of minerals in the

collections.

ATTENDANCE. Open free to public every day in the week. Number of visitors in 1909, 13,387.

SAN FRANCISCO:

CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES.

Museum.

STAFF. Director, Leverett Mills Loomis; Curators, Edwin Cooper Van Dyke (entomology), Leverett Mills Loomis (ornithology), John Van Denburgh (herpetology), Frank M. Anderson (invertebrate paleontology), John Rowley (mammalogy), A. L. Kroeber (anthropology), Alice Eastwood (botany); Assistant curators, Edward Winslow Gifford (ornithology), Joseph C. Thompson (herpetology), Washington H. Ochsner (invertebrate paleontology); Assistants Charles Fuchs (entomology), Rollo H. Beck (ornithology), Joseph R. Slevin and John I. Carlson (herpetology).

COLLECTIONS. With the exception of a few type specimens, the collections of the academy, including the library, were destroyed in the conflagration of April, 1906. Fortunately, at the time of the fire, the academy had an expedition at the Galapagos Islands, in its schooner "Academy." This expedition returned to San Francisco on November 29, 1906, after an absence of seventeen months, bringing large collections of plants, fossil and recent shells, insects, reptiles, birds, and mammals, which formed the nucleus of a new museum. These collections have been extensively added to by the academy's collectors on the Pacific coast and in the Orient.

The research collections of the academy now contain over 70,000 fossil and recent shells; large series of insects from the Galapagos Islands, the Aleutian Islands, and the Orient; over 12,000 reptiles, chiefly from the Galapagos Islands, China, Japan, Formosa, and the Philippine Islands; 17,000 birds, over half of which are water birds, including more than 1800 specimens of albatrosses and petrels.

For an exhibition collection, elaborate habitat groups of the larger mammals of the Pacific coast are being prepared by Mr. John Rowley.

BUILDING. The academy has built a ten-story class "A" income building on the site of the old museum building on Market Street, and plans have been drawn for a museum building, which it is proposed to erect in Golden Gate Park. Work on the new museum building will be delayed until the beginning of next year, pending an amendment to the charter of San Francisco.

LIBRARY. 14,000 volumes on natural history.

PUBLICATIONS. (1) Memoirs. (2) Proceedings. (3) Occasional Papers. The reports of the Galapagos Expedition and a history of the academy will be the chief publications issued during the next few years.

CALIFORNIA STATE MINING BUREAU. Museum.

The museum contains over 20,000 minerals and rocks obtained solely by donation and exchange. The collection of ores from California mines is very extensive and is supplemented by characteristic ores from the principal mining districts of the world. There are also many models, maps, photographs, and diagrams illustrating the modern practice of mining, milling and concentrating, and the technology of the mineral industries. An educational series of minerals for high schools has been recently inaugurated. The museum occupies about 7500 square feet of floor space for exhibition and is in charge of Percy K. Swan, curator. It is open free to the public on week-days from 9 to 5, except Saturdays, when it closes at 12. The number of visitors is over 120,000 annually.

MEMORIAL MUSEUM. (Golden Gate Park.)

This museum was first opened to the public on March 23, 1895. The exhibits represent a value of at least $1,000,000 and include paintings, tapestries, antique furniture, arms and armor, art metals, the Bardwell collection of 700 Japanese wood and ivory carvings, and extensive collections in ethnology, mineralogy, forestry and produce, agriculture, and natural history. The museum maintains a reference library, and has in preparation a museum guide and catalog. The collections are in charge of Albert E. Gray, curator. Recent and detailed information has not been available since the fire of 1906.

The museum has an annual attendance of over 500,000 visitors.
SAN FRANCISCO INSTITUTE OF ART.

STAFF. Director, Robert Howe Fletcher; Assistant secretary, John Ross Martin; 2 janitors.

ART. Sculpture, 8; Prints and engravings, 94; Oil paintings, 50; Water colors, 3. These are the only portions of the Mark Hopkins

Institute of Art which escaped the earthquake and fire of 1906. The valuable Emanuel Walter collection has recently been received by bequest.

HISTORICAL SKETCH. The property situated on California and Mason streets, formerly the residence of Mark Hopkins, was deeded to the board of regents of the University of California in 1893, by Mr. Edward F. Searles, for the purposes of "illustration of and instruction in the Fine Arts," under the title of the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art, with the agreement that the San Francisco Art Association be affiliated with the university and placed in charge of the premises and management of the institute. For thirteen years this organization carried on the work of the institute, including frequent exhibitions and lectures, the maintenance of a library and reading room, and the publication of an illustrated magazine. The San Francisco Art Association had been founded in 1872, for the purpose of fostering a taste for art in the community, and had already conducted exhibitions and maintained a school in its own rooms for twenty years. The earthquake and fire of 1906 destroyed the institute, with the exception of the collections noted above. After the earthquake Mr. Searles transferred to the San Francisco Art Association what remained of the property of the Mark Hopkins Art Institute, including the insurance on the buildings, to be used for the maintenance of a new art institute known as the San Francisco Institute of Art. The association retains its affiliation with the University of California.

FINANCIAL SUPPORT. The San Francisco Art Association, which conducts the Art Institute, derives its income from memberships, school tuition fees, and admission fees. Although affiliated with the University of California the association receives no financial aid from the university or the state, with the exception that it pays no taxes.

BUILDING. A temporary building was erected in 1907 at a cost of $35,000 derived from the funds of the association. It provides 4500 square feet of floor space available for exhibition, and 9500 available for offices, workrooms, and for the School of Design.

tors.

ADMINISTRATION. By a director, responsible to a board of direc

SCOPE. The museum illustrates the fine arts, principally by examples of paintings and drawings in all mediums, and by sculpture. The paintings and drawings are by artists of repute of all nationalities, principally of the last century.

LIBRARY. The former library was totally destroyed. At present there are 392 volumes relating to art. The library is intended for the use of both staff and public.

PUBLICATION. Art bulletins are issued at irregular intervals.

ATTENDANCE. Three days each week are free to the public. On other days an admission fee of 25 cents is charged, except to members. All records of attendance were destroyed in 1906.

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA. Anthropological Museum. STAFF. Director, F. W. Putnam; Curator and secretary, A. L. Kroeber; Museum assistant, Nels C. Nelson; Assistant secretary, Ethel G. Field; Preparators, A. Warburton and A. Poyser.

ANTHROPOLOGY. Archeology and ethnology, of California, 14,717; of North America, 11,244; of South America, 10,715; of Eastern Hemisphere and Pacific, 2182. Ancient and modern civilized peoples, 5360; Physical anthropology, 2171; Phonograph records, 1523. These figures are catalog entries, many of which represent several specimens. There is in addition a large Egyptian collection.

ART. A number of modern paintings; a series of ancient Greek and Roman pieces of statuary; also plaster casts of same; vases, etc. All objects having anthropological as well as artistic relations are included in the statistics given under anthropology. The ancient marbles number 100; Greek vases, 180; modern paintings, 105.

HISTORICAL SKETCH. The museum had its origin in archeological expeditions on behalf of the University of California, instituted and supported by Mrs. Phoebe A. Hearst since 1899. The museum was organized in 1901 and moved to the present building in 1903.

BUILDING. Erected for college use in 1898 at a cost of about $60,000, defrayed by the State of California. It is temporarily occupied by the museum and affords 11,000 square feet of floor space for exhibition, and 4000 for offices, workrooms, etc.

ADMINISTRATION. By the staff of the department of anthropology, responsible to the regents of the university.

SCOPE. Equal stress is laid on exploration, research, college teaching, and publication. A special synoptic anthropological collection for purposes of instruction, and a collection of casts illustrative of Greek and Roman art and architecture, both forming part of the organization of the museum, are displayed in a separate building on the university grounds at Berkeley.

PUBLICATIONS. (1) Egyptian archeology, 2 volumes issued, 5 in preparation; (2) Graeco-Roman archeology, 2 volumes issued, 1 in preparation; (3) American archeology and ethnology, 7 volumes issued, 3 in preparation.

ATTENDANCE. Open one afternoon a week to the public in parties