There is also the most important collection ever made of old Spanish and Indian folk-songs of the Southwest, including phonographic records of over 200 Indian songs in 36 different languages.

HISTORICAL SKETCH. The Southwest Museum was founded by the Southwest Society of the Archæological Institute of America and was incorporated December 31, 1907.

FINANCIAL SUPPORT. Chiefly from the Southwest Society, which has an income of about $2500 a year. Endowments in money and collections are now worth about $300,000. The Carrie M. Jones bequest of $50,000 is available for a new building, for which a sixteen-acre site has been purchased for $38,000.

BUILDING. The collections now occupy about 4000 square feet of floor space above the public library in the Hamburger building.

SCOPE. In addition to a general museum special attention is given to the archeology, ethnology, history, science, and art of California, the Southwest, and Spanish America.

LIBRARY. The Lummis library of 5000 items of Spanish America, including the rarest books and manuscripts; and the Munk library of Arizoniana, comprising about 6000 items.

PUBLICATIONS. A series of leaflet bulletins relating to the work of the museum is issued by the Southwest Society.

ATTENDANCE. Open free to the public on week-days from 2 to 4. The average monthly attendance is about 1000.

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.

No information has been received concerning the collections of this university, which are said by Merrill to include nearly 3000 fossils, 3700 minerals, 1000 specimens of historic and economic geology, 5000 plants, 730 ethnological specimens, and 22,300 zoölogical specimens, including 525 birds and 125 bird eggs, 350 other vertebrates, a small collection of insects, and 19,500 mollusca.

ZOOLOGICAL PARK.

The city maintains a zoölogical park of 2 acres, established in 1896, containing 4 reptiles, 194 birds, and 38 mammals.

OAKLAND:

OAKLAND PUBLIC MUSEUM.

STAFF. Curator, C. P. Wilcomb; Cataloger, Mrs. Alice G. Whitbeck; 1 stenographer, I mechanic, and 2 janitors.

ANTHROPOLOGY. 2000 specimens. This is the most active department of the museum at present, and special attention is given to collec

tions representing the Indian tribes of the Pacific coast. There is also a collection of well selected material from Africa, India, China, Thibet, South Pacific Islands, and the Philippines.

GEOLOGY AND PALEONTOLOGY. 500 selected minerals and a small collection of fossils.

HISTORY. 1000 articles illustrating the husbandry, manufactures, arts, social customs, and home life of the early colonies and pioneer settlers. This collection is large and comprehensive. Four large rooms in the new annex have been specially prepared to accommodate it, as follows: old-time kitchen and living room, with huge fireplace; bedroom with complete equipment; weaving room; and large room for antiquities in general. These rooms are all low-posted, with heavy beam effect and small old-fashioned windows. All designed after colonial interiors in the East.

NUMISMATICS. A collection of coins and currency representing almost every country on the globe.

ZOOLOGY. A small collection of carefully selected butterflies, moths, and insects; a collection of shells, corals, and other marine objects; and a bird collection, comprising 400 mounted specimens, 200 skins, and 3000 eggs.

HISTORICAL SKETCH. The nucleus of the museum is the Bryant ornithological collection, which was purchased by private subscription and presented to the city in 1907. Subsequently the Rabe, Daggett, and Wilcomb collections were purchased, and in 1909 the museum was formally placed under the direction of the board of trustees of the Oakland Free Library. The collections were installed in the Josiah Stanford mansion, on the western shore of Lake Merritt, and C. P. Wilcomb was elected curator.

FINANCIAL SUPPORT. The museum receives its entire support from the city of Oakland, which has appropriated $10,000 for maintenance during the current fiscal year, with a special appropriation of about $5000 for improvements and additions to the building. Oakland has a population of 200,000, an assessed tax value of $105,000,000, and a tax rate of $1.20.

BUILDING. Formerly a large residence belonging to the Stanford estate on the western shore of Lake Merritt. The land was recently purchased by the city for park purposes and the building has been thoroughly renovated and an addition of seven rooms erected. The building affords about 4700 square feet of floor space available for exhibition purposes, and 1000 for offices, workrooms, and store

rooms.

ADMINISTRATION. By a curator, responsible to the board of trustees of the Oakland Free Library.

SCOPE. The primary object of the museum is the instruction of the general public.

ATTENDANCE. Open free to the public daily.

PIEDMONT ART GALLERY.

This is a private gallery owned by Mr. Frank C. Havens, and consists of about 350 pictures, principally modern, representing various European and American schools. It consists of three buildings, each 120 feet long, divided into nine rooms of various sizes. The gallery is in charge of Richard L. Partington, curator, and is open to the public from 10 to 4 at a nominal fee of 10 cents. Its object is exclusively educational.

PACIFIC GROVE:

PACIFIC GROVE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION.

STAFF. Curator, Laura Duncan; Botanist, M. E. B. Norton; Librarian, Jeanette Murray.

BOTANY. A herbarium of 924 cryptogams, including 500 North American and foreign ferns, and 424 algae of Monterey Bay; 2478 phanerogams, of which 478 local and Californian specimens are exhibited, while 500 local, and 1500 eastern, foreign, and Philippine forms are in storage. A small forestry collection includes 50 cones and a large number of seeds.

GEOLOGY AND PALEONTOLOGY. About 200 minerals, and 20 invertebrate fossils.

ZOOLOGY. Shells, on exhibition, 235 local species and 385 Philippine specimens, in storage, 3000±; Insects, 200±; Other invertebrates, 100 (local); Fishes, 54 mounted and 26 in alcohol; Reptiles, 15 mounted and 20 in alcohol; Birds, 62 mounted and 447 skins; Mammals, 45; Bird eggs, 600.

HISTORICAL SKETCH. The museum was established in 1883 by the Chautauqua Assembly in connection with class work in zoology. The Pacific Grove Museum Association was organized in 1899, and incorporated in 1900 with 35 charter members. At this time a collection of 1100 specimens was purchased, partly representing the life of Monterey Bay; later were purchased a collection of East Indian birds and one of local bird eggs. All other collections have been added by donation.

FINANCIAL SUPPORT. The museum had the following sources of income in 1909: from memberships, $436; from donations, $31; from proceeds of entertainments and festivals, $196.

BUILDING. The museum occupies a building presented to the association, and adapted for its use in 1901 at a cost of $500. About 836 square feet of floor space is available for exhibition, and 447 for offices, workrooms, etc.

ADMINISTRATION. By the president and board of directors of the association.

SCOPE. The objects of the association are to maintain a museum for the preservation of local fauna and flora; to develop a garden of native flora; to conduct classes and lectures; to provide a scientific library; to hold periodical exhibitions; and to encourage the study and preservation of the fauna and flora of Monterey County.

LIBRARY. 330 volumes and 1200 pamphlets, on subjects pertaining to natural history, are available for the use of members of the association and students.

PUBLICATIONS. A souvenir of the tenth anniversary (1910).

ATTENDANCE. Open free to the public daily (except Mondays and holidays) from 2 to 5. The attendance for 1909 was 1224 adults and 484 children.

PALO ALTO:

LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR MUSEUM.

STAFF. Curator, H. C. Peterson; Assistant curators, E. G. McCann and A. H. S. Chuck (Chinese and Japanese department), W. W. Adams (art), A. F. Meston (Egyptology); Assistants, C. Williams, O. Utzinger, B. Kawakama.

ANTHROPOLOGY. Uncivilized peoples: Archeology, native, 350, foreign, 8126; Ethnology, native, 2985, foreign, 3110. Civilized peoples, ancient, 3630, modern, 3250. Among special collections may be mentioned the following: Danish stone and bronze, 1250; Ohio and Middle states, 1000; Klamath Indians (Dagget collection); Indian baskets; early Spanish and Mission. At present the curator is devoting special attention to local mound material.

ART. Sculpture, 169; Prints and engravings, 1260; Oil paintings, 685; Water colors, 325; Ceramics, 1650; Textiles, 1635. The Anna Lathrop Hewes collection of paintings, statuary, mozaic, etc., and a collection of pictures in oil presented by the Hon. Thomas Welton Stanford, of Australia, are noteworthy. The collection of ceramics is rich in Sevres, Bohemian, Venetian, French, Oriental, Dresden, Royal Berlin, Persian, Pompadour crystal, and many other wares. The textiles are rich in laces, Japanese embroideries, Turkish, Roumanian, and Chinese collections, and fine chronological series of mummy

cloth. Included with the prints and engravings are many exceedingly rare books and maps.

The famous Ikeda collection of Chinese and Japanese ceramics, kakimonos, bronzes, ivories, jades, lacquers, etc., was purchased in 1902 at a cost of $100,000. Another collection of great value is the Di Cesnola collection of 5000 pieces of Greek and Roman pottery and glass from the island of Cyprus. Next to that of the Metropolitan Museum of New York this is the largest collection in the world.

COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY. No regular department is maintained but the museum has the first locomotive used on the Southern Pacific Railroad called the "Governor Stanford," also a few model sailing vessels, cars, etc., valued chiefly for historical associations.

GEOLOGY. Minerals, 1500; Rocks, 100; Relief maps, models, etc., 2. This collection is rich in minerals of the Ural Mountains and in local quartz, cinnabar, iron, etc., but is being transferred to the mining department of the university.

HISTORY. Rich in Central Pacific Railroad and U. S. Grant material, the latter being second in value to that of the Smithsonian Institution.

ZOOLOGY. Shells, 2500; Birds, 600; Mammals, 15. This department, as well as that of geology, is discontinued for the present, the material being transferred to the university.

Extensive collections of Stanford historical material, showing the history of the Stanford and Lathrop families and the growth of Stanford University as shown by photographs, plans, paintings, prints, publications, etc., since 1884. Also photographs, etc., showing the Stanford stock farm when it was the largest thoroughbred stock farm in the world.

HISTORICAL SKETCH. The nucleus of the museum is a collection made by Leland Stanford, Jr., in 1880 during a trip through Great Britain and central and southern Europe. Upon his return to California in 1882 he began to arrange and catalog the material accumulated. This collection is now exhibited in one of the rooms of the museum. In 1883 he accompanied his parents on a second visit to Europe and pursued his archeological researches and acquisitions with more fervor than ever. The material collected at this time is now exhibited in an adjoining room and shows how his tastes had matured. It was the intention of Leland Stanford, Jr., to add continually to this museum, and especially to begin a collection of Chinese and Japanese curios and one of American mound builders. His intentions are now being carried out by the museum.