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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 twenty compound microscopes, four different styles from Europe, instruments by all prominent American makers, and others of which tide glasses were made to order in Europe, and the stands manufactured in the shops of the University. Zoology.—The Museum is particularly fortunate in its collections in Zoology, possessing, in mounted specimens of skeletons, nearly all the ruminants of North America, and representatives of all orders of mammals except Proboscidea; 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. The Museum also contains nearly one hundred specimens, representing tlie 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 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. 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. Mineralogy.—The Cabinet of Minerals consists of a valuable and extensive collection of the leads of the State, and accompanying minerals; a collection of models, compris-