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Museum and Collections.

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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 format on?, illustrating the general progress of life in the molluscs,flsh(s, reptiles, and mammals, from the oldest palseozoic time to the present. A fine set of fosils obtained from Germany, with collections of fossils of this and other States, illustrates the rtiferent formations, find is suitably arranged for practical study. There is a good collection of foot-prints from V. e Connecticut sand-stones. Conchology.—k large collection of shells, fully illustrating the principles of conchology as to growth, form, habits, 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 skel tons include mounted specimens of all the orders of birds and mammals with t!ie single exeeption of the order of proboscidea; alpo typical representatives of the amphibious reptiles and of fish. The Mammals compile an unsu.lly lar^e 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 represent ativt s 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 trsts, well illustrates the varieties of native wood. The tiees