Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1898-1899 [PAGE 37]

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gether with a number of characteristic tropical, Bornean, and New Zealand forms. The collection is practically complete for Illinois species. There is also a fine collection of the nests and eggs of Illinois birds. A series of several hundred unmounted skins is available for the practical study of species, and the internal anatomy is shown in alcoholic dissections and in mounted skeletons of all the orders. The cold-blooded vertebrates are represented by a series of mounted skins of the larger species, both terrestrial and marine; mounted skeletons of typical representatives of the principal groups; alcoholic specimens, both entire and dissected, and casts. The alcoholics include series of the reptiles, amphibians, and fishes, the latter comprising about three hundred species. The dissections illustrate the internal anatomy of the principal groups. The casts represent about seventy-five species, nearly all fishes. The Mollusca are illustrated by alcoholic specimens of all classes and orders, and dissections showing the internal anatomy of typical forms. There are several thousand shells belonging to seventeen hundred species. The collection of Illinois shells is fair but incomplete. Of the Arthropoda the entomological cabinet contains about three thousand species (principally American), named, labeled, and systematically arranged. There is also a series of Crustacea, some dried, but mostly in alcohol, the latter including a number of dissections. The lower invertebrates are represented by several hundred dried specimens and alcoholics, and by a large series of the famous Blaschka glass models. The embryology of vertebrates and invertebrates is illustrated by a set of Ziegler wax models, and several series of slides, sections, and other preparations. In addition to the above, the extensive collections of the State Laboratory of Natural History are available for illustrative purposes, as well as for original investigation by advanced students.