ARKANSAS

CONWAY:

HENDRIX COLLEGE.

The college has small teaching collections in charge of G. H. Burr. They comprise about 800 minerals, chiefly economic; about 75 specimens in historical geology; and 100 zoological specimens.

FAYETTEVILLE:

UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS.

Museum.

STAFF. The museum is in charge of A. H. Purdue, state geologist and head professor of geology and mining in the university. BOTANY. 1500+ species, 3500 specimens.

GEOLOGY. Minerals, 3500; Rocks, 300; Relief maps, 13; Mine models, 8.

500.

PALEONTOLOGY. Invertebrates, 1000; Vertebrates, 300; Plants,

ZOOLOGY. Insects, 200 species; Fishes, 350 species, 1500 specimens; Batrachians and reptiles, 40 species, 200 specimens, 18 skeletons; Birds and mammals, 80 species, 200 specimens.

HISTORICAL SKETCH. The botanical and zoological collections, and a part of the paleontological collection, were organized previous to 1896. The others have been added to the museum since that date. FINANCIAL SUPPORT. By appropriations from the state legislature, averaging about $500 a year.

BUILDING. The museum occupies 6130 square feet of floor space available for exhibition, and 2367 for offices, classroom, laboratory, etc., on the fourth floor of the main building of the university, erected in 1871 at a cost of $170,000 defrayed by the state.

ADMINISTRATION. By a curator, who makes a biennial report to the trustees of the university.

SCOPE. Primarily teaching and research work.

ATTENDANCE. Open free to the public on week-days throughout the collegiate year and upon application during vacation.

CALIFORNIA

AVALON, SANTA CATALINA ISLAND:

TUNA CLUB.

The club has a museum of mounted game fishes of Southern California and Texas, in charge of A. L. Beebe, honorary curator. There is also a library of angling.

ZOOLOGICAL STATION.

This station maintains a collection of living fishes and invertebrates of the locality; a set of alcoholic specimens of rare fishes, etc., many of which have been described and figured. The station also has a collection representing the archeology of the Channel Islands of California, part of which is on exhibition in the chamber of commerce at Los Angeles.

BERKELEY:

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA. Department of Botany.

This department maintains a herbarium comprising 133,055 mounted sheets of plants. This includes an economic collection of 3182 sheets, 10,137 sheets of algae, 3267 sheets of fungi, 9285 other cryptogams, and 107,184 sheets of phanerogams. There is also a large collection of unmounted material, the greater part of which is available for study, making a total available collection of about 250,000 sheets. Although the general aim of the department is to devote special attention to western North America, a large number of eastern and European species is represented, while the collection of New Zealand and Australian plants is considerable. The nucleus of the herbarium is a nearly complete set of the state survey collections, to which have been added nearly all of the sets distributed from western North America and especially from the Brandegee herbarium, which is rich in types and duplicate types and contains a good representation of the Mexican flora.

The herbarium is in charge of W. A. Setchell, professor of botany, who has assigned its keeping to H. M. Hall, assistant professor of botany; it also profits by the labors of Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Brandegee, who serve without pay, the former having the title of honorary curator of the herbarium. C. A. Purpus is the botanical collector.

The herbarium is temporarily housed on the top floor of the Hearst Memorial Mining Building, a thoroughly fireproof structure, where it is accessible to graduate students and to visiting botanists. It is supported by state funds administered through the officers of the university, about $2000 a year being expended on supplies and labor.

Connected with the herbarium is a botanical museum comprising several thousand specimens reserved for research purposes, and also a botanical garden of two and a half acres, in which about 2500 species of plants are cultivated, and upon which the sum of $1200 per year is expended.

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA. Department of Geology and Mineralogy.

The department maintains a teaching collection of rocks and minerals contained in about 1200 drawers and in about 125 linear feet of glass cases. There are also glass and wooden models, specimens from mines on the Pacific coast, models of interesting geologic regions, and 3600 slides for microscopic study. These collections are in charge of Andrew C. Lawson, professor of geology and mineralogy. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA. Museum of Paleontology. The paleontological collections are in charge of Professor J. C. Merriam and the staff of the department of paleontology. The museum includes the collections of the geological survey of California, and is rich in types and representative specimens of California fossils, in addition to a large series illustrating the invertebrate paleontology of North America, and a carefully selected series of crinoids from Crawfordsville, Indiana. The number of invertebrate fossils is estimated at 150,000, with several hundred type specimens; of vertebrate fossils at 15,000, with about 100 types; of plant fossils at 3000, with about 50 types.

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA. Museum of Vertebrate Zoölogy. STAFF. Director, Joseph Grinnell; Curators, Edmund Heller (mammals), Harry S. Swarth (birds); Assistant curator of mammals, Walter P. Taylor; Preparators, John Rowley (work done by contract) and E. J. Fischer (osteology); I janitor, I stenographer, and 1 helper.

ZOOLOGY. Fishes, very few; Batrachians, 500+; Reptiles, 1000±; Birds, 22,000±, including 40 types and the private collections of Messrs. Grinnell, Swarth, and Morcom, amounting to some 14,000 specimens; Mammals, 9000±, including 10 types; Bird eggs and nests, 500. Most of this material is in study collections, the space for exhibition being limited. A number of large groups is planned for the near future.

HISTORICAL SKETCH. The museum was inaugurated in 1908 as a department of the university, under the patronage of Miss Annie M. Alexander of Oakland, California.

FINANCIAL SUPPORT. A fixed sum of $6000 per year, promised by Miss Alexander for a term of years. In addition, Miss Alexander has expended several thousand dollars on exhibition, on securing the material for groups, and for the mounting of groups, which latter is provided entirely outside of the regular allowance.

BUILDING. Erected in 1909 at a cost of $15,000, of which $8000 was appropriated by the university, and $7000 donated by Miss Alex

ander. It provides 3500 square feet of floor space for exhibition, and approximately 5000 for offices, workrooms, etc. This building is considered a temporary structure.

ADMINISTRATION. By a director, responsible to the president of the university and to Miss Alexander.

SCOPE. The purposes of the museum are exploration, research, and college teaching.

PUBLICATIONS. Papers from the museum are published in the University of California Publications in Zoology.

CLAREMONT:

POMONA COLLEGE. Museum.

The museum was founded by A. J. Cook, and is connected with the department of biology. It consists chiefly of teaching collections, in charge of C. F. Baker, curator and professor of zoology. It occupies a portion of the second floor of the Pearsons Hall of Science, erected in 1898. The collections comprise a herbarium of 200,000+ phanerogams and 10,000+ cryptogams, including co-types, para-types, or topo-types of nearly all the numerous new species collected by the curator in the United States, Nicaragua, Colombia, Cuba, and Brazil; synoptic collections in geology and paleontology to illustrate the lectures given in courses on these subjects; and extensive collections in zoölogy, including 5000 shells, 250,000 insects (numerous types), 10,000± other invertebrates, and 5000 vertebrates. There is a department library of over 5000 titles in direct connection with the museum. The collections are maintained from the funds of the department, amounting to $2000 or more per annum, and are used chiefly for teaching purposes. They are augmented by the results of exploration and research. by members of the department. Publications based upon museum material are a portion of the "Invertebrata Pacifica" and the "Pomona Journal of Entomology Quarterly," 5 numbers having been published.

LOS ANGELES:

BOARD OF EDUCATION. Science and Art Museum. (High
School.)

STAFF. J. Z. Gilbert in charge.

ANTHROPOLOGY. 100 Indian specimens.

ART. 50 drawings and 100 working charts of drawings.

GEOLOGY. Minerals, on exhibition, 200, in storage, 500; Rocks,

200; non-mettalic ores, 100.

PALEONTOLOGY. Invertebrates, on exhibition, 400, in storage, 100; Vertebrates, on exhibition, 100, in storage, 1000, types and figured specimens, 2; Plants, on exhibition, 20, in storage, 10.

ZOOLOGY. Shells, 600; Insects, 50; Other invertebrates, 250; Fishes, 50; Batrachians, 25; Reptiles, 50; Birds, 400; Mammals, 20; Microscopic material, 400+ specimens.

HISTORICAL SKETCH. The museum was begun in 1907 by Mr. Gilbert, and is designed to aid the schools of the city in illustrating class work.

FINANCIAL SUPPORT. By a direct city appropriation of $200 annually, in addition to $200 in fixtures, and by private contributions.

BUILDING. The museum occupies about 1400 square feet of floor space in the science hall of the Los Angeles High School. A twostory building 50 x 100 feet in Agricultural Park has recently been. secured for the exhibition of part of the museum material.

tion.

SCOPE. Public school teaching, supplemented by local explora

ATTENDANCE. Open free to the public.

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

A part of the collection of the Zoological Station of Avalon, Santa Catalina Island, representing the archeology of the Channel Islands of California is on exhibition here.

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES.

The academy has a collection of local pleistocene fossils and other material with which it proposes to establish a museum in the Art Building in Agricultural Park, where a floor space of 15,000 square feet has been set apart for this purpose.

THE SOUTHWEST MUSEUM.

STAFF. Founder emeritus, Chas. F. Lummis, Curator, Hector Alliot.

COLLECTIONS. The most perfect collection extant of Southern California archeology; important archeological collections from Arizona, New Mexico, Mexico, Peru, and Bolivia; all relics of the Franciscan missionaries and the missions in Southern California, including the mission records of Los Angeles; personal relics of John C. Fremont and Jessie Benton Fremont, including the flag which he raised on the crest of the Rocky Mountains in 1842; the Lummis collections of about 5000 items from New Mexico, Mexico, Arizona, Bolivia, and Peru.