include the Jarves gallery of Italian art numbering 122 paintings, dating from the 11th to the 17th centuries; the Trumbull gallery of historical portraits and other works of modern art; a collection of original sketches by the old masters; about 150 casts and marbles representative of Greek and renaissance art; a valuable collection of old Chinese porcelain and bronzes; an extensive series of Belgian wood carvings of the 17th century, the confessionals and wainscoting of an old chapel in Ghent; and a considerable collection of autotypes.

There is also an art library containing technical handbooks and the principal English, French, and German art periodicals in complete sets, besides collections of etchings and engravings.

The museum is open free to the public from October 1 to July 1 on week-days from 1 to 5, and on Sundays from November 1 to May 1 from 1.30 to 4.30. During the summer vacation the galleries are open from 9 to 1 and 2 to 5, when a fee of 25 cents is charged. This fee is also charged when special loan exhibitions are organized, in order to meet incidental expenses.

YALE UNIVERSITY. Botanical Garden.

The garden was established in 1900 on the estate of the late Prof. Othniel C. Marsh, who bequeathed the place to the university for this purpose. It is connected with the Yale Forest School and is under the care of James W. Toumey, director.

YALE UNIVERSITY. The Eaton Herbarium.

This collection was given by the family of the late Prof. Daniel C. Eaton in 1896, in accordance with his wishes, on condition that a suitable fireproof room be provided for it on or before October 1, 1896, and that proper provision be made for its care and preservation; also that it be kept as a separate collection, or else that the sheets be marked with some distinguishing stamp or label, as "The Eaton Herbarium."

YALE UNIVERSITY. Peabody Museum of Natural History. STAFF. Curators, A. E. Verrill (zoölogy), Edward S. Dana (mineralogy), Charles Schuchert (geology), G. F. Eaton (osteology), G. G. MacCurdy (anthropology); Associate curators, R. S. Lull and G. F. Eaton (vertebrate paleontology); Lecturer on paleobotany, G. R. Wieland; Chief preparator, Hugh Gibb; 2 preparators, 2 museum assistants, I librarian, and I janitor.

ANTHROPOLOGY. A general collection, comprising stone implements, the Moseley collection of Indian baskets, Panama pottery, I Mexican calendar stone, the Prudden collection of material from the ancient pueblos and cliff dwellings of the southwest United States, the

Hoppin Eskimo exhibit and other smaller series. Much of the material was presented to the university by Professor Marsh.

GEOLOGY. The mineral collection is one of the best in America; it was begun in 1804 by Professor Silliman and later developed by Professors James D. Dana and Edward S. Dana. It comprises a systematic series and several special collections, including the Gibbs collection, purchased in 1825; famous collections of meteorites including the Gibbs iron from Texas, the Weston meteorite, nearly 1000 specimens from the great shower of 1890 in Winnebago County, Iowa, and the Hubert A. Newton collection.

PALEONTOLOGY. These collections consist of 6500 drawers of study vertebrate, invertebrate, and plant fossils, besides two rooms of exhibition specimens, brought together in the main by Professors O. C. Marsh and Charles E. Beecher since 1866, when the former was appointed professor of paleontology. Nearly all of this material is from America and chiefly from the Rocky Mountain and Great Plains regions. Among the more important fossil vertebrates are the triassic, jurassic, and cretaceous dinosaurs, the toothed birds from the cretaceous, the largest of pterodactyls (Pteranodon), Archelon, the largest of marine turtles, and an extensive series of tertiary mammals, among which is the famous Marsh collection of American fossil horses that formed the basis of Huxley's lectures in 1876. Among the invertebrates is the unique series of trilobites, preserving the antennae and the ventral limbs, and three large slabs of crinoids from the paleozoic and cretaceous. Of fossil cycads from the jurassic of South Dakota there are more than 500, preserving not only the microscopic structure of the trunk but as well the unemerged flower buds.

ZOOLOGY. Nearly all of the extensive collections are the work of Professor Verrill. Among the invertebrates, mention may be made of the corals (one of the most extensive collections in the country) and the nearly complete collection of the marine invertebrates of New England.

HISTORICAL SKETCH. In 1866, George Peabody, of London, but of Massachusetts birth, entrusted to a board of trustees, selected by himself, the sum of $150,000 to found and maintain a museum of natural history, especially in the departments of zoology, geology, and mineralogy, in connection with Yale College. Of this sum, $100,000 was devoted by Mr. Peabody to the erection, on land to be given for that purpose by the president and fellows of Yale College, of a fireproof building, planned with special reference to its subsequent enlargement, to be, when completed, the property of Yale College. Of the

remainder of the gift, $20,000 was set apart to accumulate as a building fund, and $30,000 to meet by its income from investment the expenses attending the care of the museum, the increase of its collections, and the general interests of the departments of science before named.

FINANCIAL SUPPORT. An income of $30,000 from the original Peabody endowment, supplemented by liberal annual appropriations from the university.

BUILDING. In 1876, the first wing of the museum-the part now standing-was completed and furnished with cases at a cost of $175,000 the whole outlay being met by the accumulated building fund. The central part of the projected structure and the south wing remain to be built whenever the means available for the purpose shall be adequate.

ADMINISTRATION. By a self-perpetuating board of trustees. SCOPE. The primary purposes of the museum are research, university teaching, and public instruction.

ATTENDANCE. Open free to the public on week-days throughout the year from 9 to 5, and on Sundays from November to May from 1.30 to 4.30.

YALE UNIVERSITY. Steinert Collection.

Of special interest to all students of music is the M. Steinert collection of musical instruments and manuscripts. It contains a large number of ancient keyed and stringed instruments in a state of excellent preservation, and shows the development of these instruments during a period extending over several centuries. This collection, which also contains a number of ecclesiastical manuscripts, is of much historical importance. It was given to the university by Mr. Morris Steinert of New Haven and is kept in Memorial Hall. Open to the public on Sunday afternoons in winter; at other times accessible upon inquiry at the office of University Dining Hall.

NEW LONDON:

NEW LONDON HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

This society is said to maintain a collection of historical relics in the Shaw Mansion purchased for this purpose by public subscription.

STORRS:

CONNECTICUT AGRICULTURAL College.

The college maintains collections for teaching purposes, including about 75 Indian implements; 700 minerals; 900 specimens of historical

and economic geology; 500 fossils; 1500 botanical specimens representing the flora of Connecticut; and a zoological collection of about 10,000 specimens, including a good collection of insects, a good collection of birds, particularly warblers, and a general synoptic collection in which the gastropods are best represented. The museum is in charge of G. H. Lamson, Jr., and occupies about 300 square feet of floor space in the main building of the college.

DELAWARE

NEWARK:

DELAWARE COLLEGE.

The college has teaching collections including 250 fossils; 600 minerals; 300 specimens of economic and historical geology; 200 invertebrate animals from the National Museum, and 200 collected locally; 200 vertebrates; and 1500 botanical specimens.

WILMINGTON:

HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF DELAWARE. (924 Market St.) The assistant librarian reports that the society maintains a museum, but no further information has been received.

NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF DELAWARE.

This society possesses a botanical collection of about 7000 specimens, made by the late William M. Canby.

ZOÖLOGICAL PARK.

The city maintains a zoological park of 10 acres, established in 1905, containing 3 reptiles, 32 birds, and 35 mammals.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

WASHINGTON:

ARMY MEDICAL MUSEUM.

A collection, consisting mainly of human pathology, with a department devoted to military and general hygiene, is maintained by an annual appropriation from Congress. The museum issues catalogs and occasional reports, is open free to the public, and is administered by a curator, Major F. F. Russell, and an assistant curator, Capt. Chas. F. Craig, responsible to the surgeon-general of the United States army. Three assistants, who are graduates in medicine, and two laborers make up the working force of the museum.

CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA.

Professor Henry Hyvernat reports that the recent transfer and impending reorganization of the university museum make it impossible to give a report at present. The university is said by Merrill to possess a botanical collection of over 30,000 specimens, especially rich in plants of the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific coast, gathered by Professor Edward L. Greene, and containing types of several hundred species described by him.

CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART.

STAFF. Director, Frederick B. McGuire; Assistant director, C. Powell Minnigerode; 1 clerk and stenographer, I janitor, 1 engineer, I foreman, 7 guards and attendants and 3 char-women.

ART. Sculpture, about 350 pieces, including original marbles, casts of antique, renaissance, and modern sculpture, and 107 original Barye bronzes; Prints and engravings, the St. Memim collection of 820 engraved portraits; Oil paintings, 280±; Water colors, 15; Cloisonné, 6 pieces; Porcelains and glass, 15 pieces; Electrotype reproductions, 141 pieces.

HISTORICAL SKETCH. The art gallery and school were founded and endowed by the late William Wilson Corcoran in 1869, and opened to the public in 1874 in the building on the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and 17th Street. The gallery was opened in the new building

in 1897.

FINANCIAL SUPPORT. Annual income: from endowment, $35,000; from the art school, about $5000; from admission fees, about $3000.

BUILDING. Erected in 1893-7, at a cost of $650,000, paid from the endowment fund. About 35,000 square feet of floor space is available for exhibition purposes, and about 4000 for offices, workrooms, etc.

ADMINISTRATION. By a director, responsible to a board of

trustees.

SCOPE. In connection with the gallery there is a free art school with classes in drawing and painting from the cast, life, etc., also portrait and still-life classes. The students number about 300. Loan collections and special exhibitions are placed in the gallery from time to time.

LIBRARY. 1000 volumes on the fine arts, used chiefly as a reference library by members of the staff and students of the school. PUBLICATIONS. (1) Annual reports. (2) Catalogs of the permanent collection. (3) Catalogs of special exhibitions.