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Caption: Course Catalog - 1898-1899
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34 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS GEOLOGICAL Lithology is represented by type collections of rocks (2,900 specimens), arranged to illustrate Rosenbusch, from Voigt and Hochgesang, Dr. L. Eger, and A. Kranz; a type collection from Ward; a large number of ornamental building stones, and a stratigraphic collection to illustrate Illinois geology. The mineralogical collection is especially rich in rockforming minerals, ores, and materials of economic value. It contains over 7,000 specimens carefully selected to meet the wants of the student. The paleontological collection (43,400 specimens) contains representative fossils from the entire geologic series. It embraces the private collections of Dr. A. H. Worthen, including 650 type specimens; Tyler McWhorter; Rev. Mr. Hertzer; the Ward collection of casts, and a considerable number of special collections representing the fauna and flora of particular groups. ZOOLOGICAL The zoological collections have been specially selected and prepared to illustrate the courses of study in natural history, and to present a synoptical view of the zoology of the state. The mounted mammals comprise an unusually large and instructive collection of the ruminants of our country, including male and female moose, elk, bison, deer, antelope, etc., and also several quadrumana, large carnivora and furbearing animals, numerous rodents, good representative marsupials, cetaceans, edentates, and monotremes. Fifty species of this class are represented by eighty specimens. All the orders, excepting the Proboscidea, are represented by mounted skeletons. There is also a series of dissections in alcohol, illustrating the comparative anatomy of the group. The collection of mounted birds includes representatives of all the orders and families of North America, to-
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