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Museum and Collections.

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and Nebraska. It has also endowment funds invested in State and county bonds amounting to $319,000, besides other property and avails valued at $33,000.

MUSEUM AND COLLECTIONS.

The Museum already contains collections illustrating the several departments of science, unusually rich and equalled at few, if any, of the colleges of the west. Among these collections are included the following: Fossils.—Casts of the most remarkable fossils hitherto discovered in the various geological formations, illustrating the general progress of life in the molluscs, fishes, reptiles, and mammals, from the oldest palaeozoic time to the present. A fine set of fossils obtained from Germany, with collections of fossils of this and other States, illustrates the different formations, and is suitably arranged for practical study! There is a good collection of foot-prints from the Connecticut sand-stones. Conchology.—k large collection of shells fully illustrating the principles of conchology as to growth, form, habjts, etc., representing all the classes and orders by their typical genera and species. The fluviatile shells of the State are fully exhibited, while the specimens of marine and land shells are also abundant. Osteology.—The skeletons include mounted specimens of all the orders of birds and mammals, with the single exception of the order of proboscidea; also typical representatives of the amphibious reptiles and of fish. The Mammals comprise an unusually large and complete collection of the ruminants of our country, including male and female elk, bison, deer, antelope, etc. Also some of the larger carnivors and fur bearing animals, and numerous rodents. Ornithology.—The collection of stuffed birds is large, including representatives of all the orders, and embracing most of the families of North America, as also a number of characteristic tropical forms. Entomology.—The collection includes about three thousand species of insects, illustrating all the orders and giving types of numerous families. Botany.—The herbarium contains about one thousand species of plants indigenous to Illinois, including nearly complete sets of the grasses and sedges. There are besides many other North American plants and some exotics. A collection of Fungi includes examples of those most injurious to other plants, causing rusts, smuts, moulds, etc. A collection of wood specimens from two hundred species of North American trees, well illustrates the varieties of native wood. The trees and shrubs of Stephenson County, Illinois, are represented by a distinct collection.