history museum is supported by an annual state appropriation of $2000, supplemented for 1910 by a university appropriation of $4000 to cover cost of moving and installation. This museum is open free to the public on week-days from 7 to 6.

AGRICULTURE. The agricultural departments maintain collections illustrating their work, prominent among which are those showing typical specimens of standard varieties of corn; wax models of fruits and vegetables; an extensive horticultural herbarium; specimens of live stock; a collection of farm machinery; and material ilustrating the progress of investigations.

ART. The University Art Gallery is the gift of citizens of Champaign and Urbana and is devoted primarily to a collection of models for art students. It comprises 13 full-size casts of celebrated statues, 40 statues of reduced size, and a large number of busts and bas-reliefs making in all over 400 pieces. There are also hundreds of large autotypes, photographs, and fine engravings, representing many of the great masterpieces of painting of nearly all the modern schools; and a gallery of historical portraits, mostly large French lithographs, copied from the national portrait galleries of France. There are also a number of casts of ornaments from the Alhambra and other Spanish buildings presented by the Spanish government; a set of casts illustrating German renaissance ornament; a series of art works from the Columbian Exposition; and miscellaneous casts, models, prints, and drawings.

BOTANY. A herbarium of about 65,000 mounted plants, including a practically complete series of the indigenous flowering plants of Illinois, a fair representation of the flora of North America, and a considerable collection of foreign species. There are about 32,000 named specimens of fungi.

COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY. A general working collection given. by the Philadelphia Commercial Museums.

ENGINEERING. Extensive teaching collections, including specimens of material; samples, casts, and drawings of construction; lantern slides, books, and pamphlets; etc., are housed in various rooms in Engineering Hall.

GEOLOGY. A synoptic collection of 9000 specimens of rocks; 1000 thin sections of rocks and minerals; a series of ornamental building stones; a stratigraphic collection to illustrate Illinois geology; and a collection of 104 samples of Illinois soils. The mineral collection includes over 12,000 minerals, ores, etc.; 575 crystal models; and a considerable collection of gems and precious stones.

LIBRARY ECONOMY. An exhibit of library methods and administration prepared by the library school.

PALEONTOLOGY. 49,000 representative fossils, including the A. H. Worthen collection with 742 type specimens; the Tyler, McWhorter, and Hertzer collections; the greater part of the collections made by the geological survey of the state under Worthen; 200 thin sections of corals; the Ward collection of casts; and a number of special collections representing the fauna and flora of particular groups.

PEDAGOGY. Illustrative material from manual training departments of various schools; photographs of school buildings; drawings and constructive work by public school pupils; and the nucleus of a representative collection of apparatus for the school laboratory. This collection is in University Hall.

ZOOLOGY. Shells, 2000± species; Insects, the Bolter collection of 120,000 specimens, representing over 16,000 species; Other invertebrates, many alcoholics, large series of Blaschka models, etc.; Fishes, about 300 species in alcohol, and 75 casts; Batrachians and reptiles, not enumerated; Birds, practically complete series of Illinois species, and about 125 foreign species; Mammals, a series of ruminants of the United States, with representatives of other orders.

INDIANA

BLOOMINGTON:

INDIANA UNIVERSITY.

No reply has been received to repeated requests for information regarding the teaching collections of the university. The university catalog shows that there is no general museum and that the most important of the departmental collections are the Eigenmann collection of several thousand species of fishes and a collection of unworked paleontological material especially rich in young stages of brachiopods and bryozoans.

CENTERVILLE:

WAYNE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

The secretary reports that a museum is maintained in charge of Caleb King, curator. No reply has been received to repeated requests for further information.

STAFF. Curator, Mason D. Thomas.

ANTHROPOLOGY. 6000 specimens, chiefly relics of American

Indians and the mound builders.

BOTANY. A herbarium containing 30,000 phanerogams and 1500 cryptogams, especially complete in North American species; 1000 specimens of economic products.

GEOLOGY. Minerals, 2000; Rocks, 1000; Economic series, 400 specimens, including a valuable series of marbles and granites, and a series of iron ores with their furnace products.

PALEONTOLOGY. 4300 specimens; 300 casts of fossil vertebrates (chiefly from Ward); 300 fossils from the coal measures; 500 crinoids, 200 trilobites, and 3000 corals, brachiopods, gastropods, cephalopods, etc., from the Keokuk group at Crawfordsville; fossil fishes from Persia; and a series of mammalian fossils from California.

The illustrative material is valuable and fairly representative. The series of fossils is carefully arranged to portray the development of life from early primordial times to the present. Some groups of devonian and sub-carboniferous forms are well represented, and have furnished types for various species of crinoids, etc., for which the beds in the near vicinity are famous.

ZOOLOGY. Shells, 1000; Insects, 1000; Other invertebrates, 300; Fishes, 50; Batrachians, 50; Reptiles, 25; Birds, 100; Mammals, 40. HISTORICAL SKETCH. The museum was established by Dr. H. Hovey, and maintained by private contributions for many years. Later purchases have been made by the college.

FINANCIAL SUPPORT. The museum receives $200 of the appropriation for the department of biology, and occasional gifts from other

sources.

ADMINISTRATION. By a curator, responsible to the board of trustees of the college.

SCOPE. The collections are chiefly used for teaching purposes in the college.

ATTENDANCE. Open free to the public. No statistics of attendance are available.

CROWN POINT:

OLD SETTLERS AND HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION OF LAKE
COUNTY.

This organization is said by Thwaites to maintain a small museum illustrating pioneer life and natural history.

FRANKLIN:

FRANKLIN COLLEGE. Gorby Collection.

This collection is used primarily for college teaching but is also accessible to visitors. It is carefully labeled and cataloged and occupies

a large well-lighted room in the main building of the college. It is in charge of J. W. Adams, professor of geology, and includes about 300 arrowheads, axes, and other relics of American Indians, and 300 specimens from cliff dwellings; about 35,000 fossils, mostly silurian, devonian, or carboniferous; 2000 shells, several hundred echinoderms, 200 crustacea, about 800 bird eggs, etc.

GOSHEN:

ELKHART COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

This society was organized in 1896 and occupies a room in the county court house, where it maintains a historical museum, including about 400 Indian stone implements; domestic and other implements and articles used by early settlers; documents, photographs, and local publications of early date relating to the county; a cabinet of curios from the Philippine Islands; mastodon tusks and elk antlers from Elkhart County; a collection of military relics and records; etc. There are no regular funds for the support of the museum, and the exhibition cases have been provided by the county.

The museum is open free to the public on week-days from 8 to 5.

HANOVER:

HANOVER COLLEGE.

No reply has been received from this institution, which is said by Merrill to have a teaching collection of 500 geological specimens, chiefly local.

INDIANAPOLIS:

ART ASSOCIATION OF INDIANAPOLIS. John Herron Art

Institute.

The John Herron Art Institute comprises a fine arts museum and a school, each having its own building on grounds at Sixteenth and Pennsylvania Streets. It is conducted by the Art Association of Indianapolis, to which funds were bequeathed for the purpose by John Herron in 1896. These funds have since been increased by other endowment. Additional income is derived from annual dues of $10 each from about 500 members and by an appropriation of about $9000 annually from the school board of Indianapolis. The institute is administered by William Henry Fox, director, William Coughlen, secretary of the art association, and Anna E. Turrell, curator of the museum and school property.

COLLECTIONS. The museum possesses a permanent collection of about So paintings; some casts; and a collection of miscellaneous

art objects, including a valuable series of Chinese robes and embroidery. The active life of the institute dates from November 20, 1906, when the museum was opened to the public, and its acquisitions, aside from the painting collection, have been made mainly since that time. An art library was opened in 1909 containing about 300 books; periodicals on art subjects; about 400 prints, etchings, and engravings; 150 large Braun carbon photographs of masterpieces of art; a collection of miscellaneous photographs of art and architectural subjects; and a very good collection of catalogs of public and private collections, including those of the J. Pierpont Morgan collection of paintings and miniatures. The permanent collection of paintings is contemporary in character and is mainly of American art.

BUILDING. The building, erected in 1906, has a frontage of 125 feet and a depth of 80 feet. It encloses three sides of a sculpture court and is constructed with a view to subsequent enlargement. The first floor has the administrative offices, the library, galleries for the display of objects in cases, and the sculpture court. On the second floor are top-lighted galleries for paintings. There are 11 of these galleries in all, of which the largest has a floor space of 2100 square feet.

ATTENDANCE. The museum is open on week-days from 9 to 5, on Sundays from 1 to 6, and Wednesday evenings from 7.30 to 10. An admission fee of 25 cents is charged on week-days and 10 cents on Sundays. Occasional free days are appointed by the directors.

INDIANA STATE MUSEUM.

This museum is housed in the state house, where it occupies a floor space of about 4200 square feet. It is devoted to the geology and natural history of the state, and the state geologist, W. S. Blatchley, acts as curator. The only assistant is a janitor or custodian, and there are no special funds for the maintenance of the museum. The collections are open free to the public daily, except holidays, from 8 to 5. The attendance is large but statistics are not available.

UNIVERSITY OF INDIANAPOLIS-BUTLER COLLEGE.

The college maintains teaching collections, including stone implements from the United States; fossils and minerals; land, fresh-water, and marine shells; invertebrates in alcohol (largely from New England); fresh-water and marine fishes; reptiles and amphibians. The collections occupy about 1800 square feet of floor space, and are in charge of H. L. Bruner, professor of zoology.

ZOOLOGICAL PARK.

The city maintains a zoological park of 6 acres, established in 1899, containing 14 birds and 61 mammals.