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Illinois Industrial University.

ment of Agriculture, Washington, D. C; and others obtained by exchange from various parts of the United States. A collection of fungi contains numerous species. The green-houses and out-door plantations furnish a large amount of illustrative material for the classes. Enlarged papier-mache models of flowers and fruits, exhibiting structure and development, are in the cabinet. In Entomology numerous species have been contributed by the State Entomologist, who is required by law to deposit his first series of specimens in the cabinet of the University. Local collections and exchanges have increased the number to about three thousand species. The University has compound microscopes of four different styles from Europe, two by a prominent American maker, and others of which the glasses were made to order in Europe, and the stands were manufactured in the shops of the University. Zoology.—The Museum is particularly fortunate in its collections in Zoology, possessing, in mounted specimens or skeletons, nearly all the ruminants of North America, and representatives of all orders of mammals, except Proboscidse; exhibiting fifty species by eighty mounted specimens, with numerous skeletons. In birds it represents all the families of North America, having two hundred and forty species, represented by over four hundred specimens. Its Articulates number more than three thousand specimens; its fishes, four hundred; its radiates, three hundred, and its reptiles nearly one hundred. Sea, land, and fluviatile shells are represented by seventeen hundred species on deposit. The museum also contains nearly one hundred specimens, representing the osteology of vertebrates; a large collection of the nests and eggs of birds; a collection of Indian implements; and a manikin, a dissected eye, and a trachea, in papier-mache. Geology.—The Geological Cabinet contains Prof. Ward's celebrated college series of casts of famous fossils, including the gigantic megatherium nearly eighteen feet in length; the head of the Elephas Ganesa with tusks ten and a half feet long; the Collossochelys Atlas,—a gigantic tortoise with a shell eight feet by six; and the Plesiosaurus Cramptoni twenty-two and a half feet by twelve and a half feet. It also contains a series of tracks in the sandstone of the Connecticut river; a large collection of carboniferous ferns from the celebrated locality at Morris, 111.; several thousand specimens of fossils from the State Geological Survey, and from purchase in Europe; and a large number of specimens illustrating building materials, dikes, veins, metamorphism, drift bowlders, etc.