WESTFIELD:

HITCHCOCK MEMORIAL MUSEUM.

This museum is in charge of E. S. Miller, curator, and is housed in the public library building. It contains a general natural history collection, including several large groups of Vermont animals mounted in natural surroundings.

VIRGINIA

BLACKSBURG:

VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE.

The collections of the department of biology have been built up by Dr. Ellison A. Smyth Jr., head of the department. They were begun in 1891 with his private collection of shells and alcoholic invertebrates, bird eggs and skins, lepidoptera, alcoholic snakes, and dried invertebrates. About 70 birds were mounted, and Dr. Smyth's private herbarium of about 1000 species was added. Later, for convenience and study, the butterflies to the number of about 30,000, and the bird skins to the number of about 1500, were removed to his house, thus escaping a fire which destroyed the Science Hall and the entire museum collection with the exception of a few mounted birds and alcoholic invertebrates. Since that time the department has been installed in the new building, and Dr. Smyth has by personal collecting in the tropics and elsewhere and by purchase more than replaced the earlier collection of corals and shells. These with some alcoholic invertebrates, a few skeletons, the college collection of insects, and a case of mounted birds are now in the department lecture room, as is also the herbarium. A large room in the same building has been set apart for a museum, in which it is proposed that the departments of agronomy, veterinary and animal husbandry, horticulture, and plant pathology will unite with the department of biology in establishing a museum. No special funds are available however for this purpose and whatever work is done upon the museum will be due to the personal interest of the teaching staff in these departments.

CHARLOTTESVILLE:

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA. Lewis Brooks Museum.

This is a large brick building erected in 1879 through the munificence of Lewis Brooks of Rochester, N. Y., and contains large collections of minerals, rocks, and fossils for instruction in geology and mineralogy, and extensive botanical and zoölogical collections for instruc

tion in biology. The number of specimens in the various departments is not known. The lecture rooms, laboratories, and library are also contained in the museum building.

EMORY:

EMORY AND HENRY COLLEGE.

The college has made a small beginning in the establishment of a museum of natural science.

LEXINGTON:

WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY.

Museums.

ART. Bradford Art Gallery. Bequeathed to the university by the late Vincent L. Bradford of Philadelphia, and endowed by him with an annuity sufficient for its maintenance and for annual additions to the collection. It is situated on the second floor of the library building, around the central opening beneath the dome. Beside several pieces of marble statuary the gallery contains between 60 and 70 oil paintings. With this art gallery is deposited the Lee collection of American portraits in oil, loaned by the president emeritus, General G. W. Custis Lee. Most of these paintings hung at Mount Vernon, the home of George Washington, from whom General Robert E. Lee inherited them. In addition, there is in the Lee Memorial Chapel a series of oil paintings, for the most part of benefactors of the university.

SCIENCE. In connection with the laboratories of biology and geology there are study collections of minerals, rocks, and fossils, including the United States geological survey educational series of rocks, and the Batchen, Ruffner, and Brooks collections. The last includes four collections: (1) An extensive assortment of minerals, native and foreign, and specimens of many varieties of rock used for building and ornamental purposes. (2) A synoptic collection of fossil animals and plants. (3) A synoptic zoölogical collection of stuffed or dried animals and mounted skeletons. (4) A herbarium of 5000 mounted specimens; a collection of 700 sections of wood; a portfolio of American trees; numerous models of flowers; and a series of botanical charts.

The collections are in charge of the professors of related departments; the science collections being in charge of H. D. Campbell, professor of geology and biology.

NORFOLK:

ZOOLOGICAL PARK.

The city maintains a zoological park of 3 acres, established in 1901, containing 6 reptiles, 133 birds, and 48 mammals.

RICHMOND:

DEPARTMENT

Museum.

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AGRICULTURE AND IMMIGRATION.

This department maintains a museum in the capitol, comprising handsomely installed exhibits of the fruits, grains, etc., and the birds and animals of Virginia. The exhibit is open free to the public whenever the capitol is open and the attendance is 35,000-50,000 a year.

CONFEDERATE MEMORIAL LITERARY SOCIETY.

This society maintains a museum of Confederate war relics in the "White House of the Confederacy." A room in this building is maintained by each of the Confederate states in which are exhibited its war relics, in charge of a resident vice-regent. The formal opening of the building took place in 1896; the funds for restoration, fireproofing, and steam-heating having been raised by a memorial bazaar. The museum is open to the public on week-days from 9 to 5; admission is free on Saturdays but on other days a fee of 25 cents is charged.

R. E. LEE CAMP NO. 1 CONFEDERATE VETERANS.

The camp has a gallery containing about 87 oil portraits of prominent soldiers of the Confederacy, including nearly every officer of the army of northern Virginia and many officers of the army of Tennessee. The collection is in charge of the camp, W. S. Archer, commander, and J. Taylor Stratton, adjutant.

RICHMOND COLLEGE.

A series of casts of celebrated statuary, paintings, objects of ethnographical interest, etc., is installed in a hall affording about 4000 square feet of floor space. The collection is in charge of C. H. Ryland, curator, and is maintained from the general funds of the college. is open to visitors as well as to the college.

THE VALENTINE MUSEUM. (11th and Clay Sts.)

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ANTHROPOLOGY. The collections were made and presented by Granville G. Valentine, Benjamin B. Valentine, and Edward P. Valentine, and consist chiefly of surface finds (pipes, ceremonial stones, discoidal stones, arrow and spear heads, etc.), and objects from the mounds of Virginia and North Carolina. There is also a collection of

Irish implements of the stone age and one of modern Cherokee and other pottery.

ART. A collection of 1734 casts of Assyrian, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, renaissance and modern sculpture, was presented by Granville G. Valentine. There are also engravings, manuscripts, drawings, etc., and a large Brussels tapestry, The Sacrifice in the Temple, made by F. van den Hecke, early in the 17th century. This tapestry measures 15 x 20 feet and is said to be the largest ever brought to this country. There is also a similar smaller tapestry, Fortune distributing her Gifts.

HISTORICAL SKETCH. Established for the purpose of preserving and accumulating objects of archeology, anthropology, and other arts, and for publishing literary, historical, and scientific papers, according to the provisions made by will of the late Mann S. Valentine, of Richmond. The museum was incorporated in 1894 and opened to the public in 1898.

FINANCIAL SUPPORT. The donor provided an endowment fund of $50,000 for the maintenance of the museum. A small income is derived from life memberships, door receipts, and the sale of catalogs.

BUILDING. The collections are housed in the former residence of the donor of the museum, built in 1812 and having the original doors, silver knobs, locks, and hinges.

ADMINISTRATION. By a self-perpetuating board of trustees of 10

members.

LIBRARY. In 1898, at the opening of the museum, the collection of books contained 3300 volumes.

ATTENDANCE. Open to the public on week-days from 10 to 5. An admission fee of 25 cents is charged, except on Saturdays. In the past two years and a half there have been 12,000 visitors.

VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

The society maintains a large gallery of portraits of Virginians and others; a small collection of historical relics; and a library containing also a valuable collection of manuscripts. W. G. Stanard, corresponding secretary.

VIRGINIA STATE LIBRARY. (State Capitol.)

The library has 8 pieces of sculpture; 50 prints and engravings; and 105 oil paintings, chiefly historical portraits.

WASHINGTON

PULLMAN:

STATE COLLEGE OF WASHINGTON.

The college maintains a museum on the third floor of the science hall, in charge of W. T. Shaw, curator. The general collection occupies a large central room, while the departmental collections are in three smaller rooms. The museum comprises an excellent collection of minerals from the United States, New South Wales, Germany, and Mexico; an almost complete collection of the ores of the state of Washington; plaster casts of prehistoric implements; a herbarium comprising 80,000+ phanerogams and pteridophytes, 5000± bryophytes, 10,000 fungi, and 200± algae; the Misses Mary P. Olney collection of shells; a nearly complete collection of Puget Sound mollusks; a large series of fossil shells from Canada; 200 000+ insects; an excellent set of echinoderms and other invertebrates; and a large number of mounted fishes, birds, and mammals. The collection of Alaskan birds is especially notable, consisting of about 110 species obtained by the curator during two trips through southern Alaska, the Yukon country, and the Bering Sea region, and including a specimen of the Fisher petrel (Estrelata fisheri) which is the second known to science.

The college appropriates $750-1000 a year for the general ma'ntenance of the museum. The collections are open free to the public on week-days from 9 to 4.

SEATTLE:

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON. State Museum.

STAFF. Curator, F. S. Hall; 1 assistant and 1 janitor.

ANTHROPOLOGY. Ethnology, native, 26,000+, foreign, 600+. This department includes the Stewart collection of many thousand Indian implements, weapons, baskets, etc., collected along the lower Columbia River and purchased for the museum at the close of the Lewis and Clark Exposition; an extensive Philippine collection; and the Emmons collection of about 1800 articles illustrating the life and habits of the Tlingit people of southeastern Alaska.

BOTANY. Cryptogams, 1500 (10 types); Phanerogams, 10,000. There are also 400 jars of preserved fruits, nuts, vegetables, etc. of the state; 200+ economic grasses, seeds, etc., from Washington and Alaska; an exhibition series of 450+ mounted botanical specimens from Washington and Alaska; and an extensive forestry exhibit from Washington, Alaska, Hawaii, and the Philippines.