WAR RELIC DEPARTMENT.

This department maintains a museum, in charge of W. W. Ferguson, custodian. The collections include over 3000 articles of historical interest, housed at present in the state house, but soon to be removed to a new building in course of erection in May, 1910. The nucleus of the museum is a collection made by Cecil A. Deane, and transferred in 1895 to the state. Admission is free, and the attendance has been estimated at 50,000 a year.

ZOOLOGICAL PARK.

The city maintains a zoological park, established in 1897, containing 200 birds and 155 mammals.

FORT COLLINS:

STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. Museum.

The collections, which are rich in local material, are in charge of the heads of the several departments and comprise a small collection in ethnology; 7000 botanical specimens, including 1000 species of Colorado phanerogams and 300 species of Colorado fungi; small working collections of minerals and rocks, and about 1000 specimens of ores; 550 specimens in paleontology; and an extensive zoological collection, including 2000 shells, 80,000 insects, 500 other invertebrates, 20 fishes, 50 batrachians, 75 reptiles, 1200 birds, and 125 mammals.

GOLDEN:

COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES. Mineralogical Museum. This museum is in charge of H. B. Patton, professor of geology and mineralogy and, although used primarily for instruction, is open free to the public.

COLLECTIONS. Minerals: a synoptic collection of 370; a working collection of 21,000±; a display collection of 1305; a supplementary collection of 950; the Patton collection of 970; and a crystal collection of 1800. Rocks: a synoptic collection of 1800; a working collection of 748; a United States geological survey educational series of 156; and the Patton collection of 1700. Fossils: a display collection of 342; and a miscellaneous collection of 1360. Many of the Colorado minerals are of special interest, more particularly the zeolites of Table Mountain, Golden.

The school also possesses a museum of applied chemistry, including mounted specimens of raw materials, main products, by-products, and waste products of the various branches of technical chemistry and metallurgy, and a metallurgical collection of models illustrating the best types of furnaces in this and other countries.

GREELEY:

STATE NORMAL SCHOOL.

The school has undertaken the organization of museums for teaching purposes in connection with its several departments of study. A bulletin describing the collections was issued in May, 1908.

CONNECTICUT

HARTFORD:

CONNECTICUT HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

The secretary and librarian reports that the society maintains a small museum, of which he is the custodian, but no further information regarding the collections has been received.

THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY. (Broad St.)

The seminary is the custodian of the large collection of ethnographical specimens collected by missionaries of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, Boston, with which are included similar articles belonging to the seminary itself. It also possesses the Paton Palestinian ethnological collection; and has a full set of lantern slides illustrating the archeology, geography, and ethnology of Palestine.

TRINITY COLLEGE. Museum.

The collections include a fair representation of the minerals; the Ward collections of rocks; rocks of the New York series, and of the stratigraphical series; a local herbarium; a few cases of Indian and other relics; Ward's collection of fossils and casts of fossils; a fair representation of vertebrates, including some good mammalian skeletons; small local collections of insects, the fauna of Long Island Sound, Blaschka models of Hydrozoa, and a large collection of unidentified shells. These collections are in charge of the professor of natural history, and though used primarily for college purposes, are open to visitors. WADSWORTH ATHENEUM.

STAFF. Chief curator, Frank Butler Gay; Curators, John H. Sage (natural history), Henry D. Miller (mineralogy), Albert Hastings Pitkin (ceramics).

COLLECTIONS. The art collections include paintings, ceramics, firearms, statuary, etc. Among the artists represented are Lawrence, Gainsborough, Raeburn, Morland, Constable, Ostade, Heernskerk, Van der Neer, Weenix, Van der Helst, Corot, Troyon, Jacque Lhermitte, Pasini, Isabey, Clays, Mesdag, Dupre, Copley, Trumbull, Stewart,

Cole, Inness, Wyant, and others. There is also a collection of early books and prints to illustrate the development of printed pictures, made by William C. Prime. In a portion of the building known as the Morgan Memorial is a remarkable collection of tapestries loaned by Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan.

The natural history collections include an especially choice collection of Connecticut Valley birds, bird eggs, shells, minerals, etc. Data concerning the building and financial support have not been received.

LITCHFIELD:

LITCHFIELD HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

The society maintains a museum of local history, including war relics; old china, furniture, tools, coins, articles of clothing, etc.; autographs, portraits, and medals; and a library of books of local interest, files of newspapers, etc. These collections occupy about 2250 square feet of floor space in a building erected by Mrs. Emily N. Vanderpool, in memory of her son. The museum is in charge of Mrs. Vanderpool, curator, and is open to the public on week-days in summer and twice a week in winter.

MERIDEN:

MERIDEN SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATION.

The association possesses a geological and mineralogical collection of about 3000 specimens.

MIDDLETOWN:

MIDDLESEX COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

This society has a museum of about 2000 articles of historical interest, military, naval, civil, religious, and ethnological, pertaining mainly to the county, state, and the United States, in charge of A. R. Crittenden, curator. It also has a library of 2500 or more volumes with many pamphlets, documents, letters, and historical engravings, in charge of Frances M. Pelton, librarian.

WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY. Museum.

STAFF. Curator,

ANTHROPOLOGY. 3400± specimens, rich in material illustrating the life of American Indians, largely from localities in New England, from burial mounds near Chattanooga, and from California. There is also a large collection from China, the South Sea Islands, and Africa.

BOTANY. Cryptogams, 3001; Phanerogams, 10,000±; Specimens of wood, alcoholic specimens of fungi, and miscellaneous botani

cal specimens, 1500±.

GEOLOGY. Minerals, on exhibition, 7000±, in storage, 10,000+; Rocks, on exhibition, 1000±, in storage, 1000±. There is a collection of dynamic geology, illustrating systematically the work of atmospheric, aqueous, organic, and igneous agencies. The minerals are rich in material from Middletown, Portland, and Haddam.

NUMISMATICS. 7000± coins and medals. Among these are 2000± Chinese coins, many of which are ancient and rare, presented by Rev. M. L. Taft; a collection of historical medals and facsimilies of Greek and Roman coins (with some originals), numbering 1000± specimens, presented by Stephen H. Olin.

PALEONTOLOGY. Invertebrates, on exhibition, 10,000±, in storage, 4000; Vertebrates, on exhibition, 2000+; Plants, on exhibition, 2000, in storage, 500±. These collections include a fine representation of fishes from the triassic shales of Durham and Guilford, Conn., and considerable material from the Green River beds of Fossil, Wyoming; also casts of Megatherium and other large fossil vertebrates.

ZOOLOGY. Shells, on exhibition, 30,000, in storage, 60,000±; Insects, on exhibition, 2000±, in storage, 3000±; Other invertebrates, on exhibition, 7000±, in storage, 3000+; Fishes, on exhibition, 1500, in storage, 500+; Batrachians, on exhibition, 2001; Reptiles, on exhibition, 500±, in storage, 100±; Birds, on exhibition, 1000±, in storage, 700+; Mammals, on exhibition, 400±. These collections include full representations of the vertebrates of North America and of the marine invertebrates of the New England coast. The large collection of shells was obtained chiefly by the purchase of the collection of Dr. Simeon Shurtleff.

HISTORICAL SKETCH. The collection of museum material was commenced at the time of the founding of the university in 1831. John Johnston, professor of natural science for many years in the early history of the college, collected many specimens from the rich mineralogical localities in the vicinity of Middletown. The Franckfort collection, rich in minerals from European localities, was purchased in 1858, and the Shurtleff collection of shells, birds, etc., was purchased in 1868. In 1871, George Brown Goode became connected with the museum, which owes much to his energy as a collector and to his genius as a museum administrator. Since 1893, Mr. Loper, the recent curator, has made extensive collections of fossils in the vicinity of

Middletown, Valcour Island, Nova Scotia, Maryland, Colorado, and Wyoming.

FINANCIAL SUPPORT. The museum has no separate endowment, salaries being paid from the funds of the university. Money for occasional purchase of specimens has usually been raised by special subscription.

BUILDING. The two upper stories of the natural science building, Orange Judd Hall, are used for the museum. 11,000 square feet of floor space is available for exhibition, and 2000± for offices, workrooms, etc.

ADMINISTRATION. Under the control of the board of trustees of the university.

SCOPE. The collections are chiefly used for college teaching, but some emphasis is laid upon instruction of the general public and of pupils of the public schools.

PUBLICATIONS. From 1876 to 1892 an annual report was published, giving lists of accessions and other information. Since that date, the important facts in regard to the museum have been given in the semi-annual bulletins of the university.

ATTENDANCE. Open free to the public on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons, and at other times on special application; to students of the university, at all times.

NEW BRITAIN:

NEW BRITAIN INSTITUTE.

This library possesses 8 oil paintings, 3 of which were purchased from the Talcott Art fund; and a collection of 157 mounted birds, not yet arranged for exhibition. They are to receive, as soon as accommodations can be prepared, 1480 named and classified minerals, 500 shells, and 500 fossils.

NEW HAVEN:

NEW HAVEN COLONY HISTORICAL SOCIETY. (144 Grove St.) This society possesses an unclassified collection of Indian flints and arrowheads, and objects, documents and prints relating to local history, in charge of Frederick Bostwick, curator. The society also possesses a library of 7000 volumes and 8000 pamphlets relating to historical and genealogical subjects.

YALE UNIVERSITY. School of the Fine Arts.

The school maintains an art museum in charge of John F. Weir, director, and George H. Langzettel, assistant curator. The collections