Museum.

A large and admirably lighted front room, on the second floor of the University Building, opposite the Society Hall, has been fitted up to contain the Museum, with the most modern improvements, and in elegant style.

The Museum of Human Anatomy and Physiology is well supplied. Its facilities for illustrating and teaching these departments are not surpassed by any similar institution in the country. It contains skeletons, maps, a full set of Bock-Steiger models, and other apparatus ample for the department. The facilities for teaching vertebrate Anatomy and Zoology are good. The Zoology and Anatomy of the invertebrates can be finely illustrated from specimens in this museum. In the department of the sub-kingdom of Mollusca, there are about three or four hundred species of shells, selected from the prominent or typical species of the different families of that division of animals. The department of Entomology is variously and, in some respects, elaborately represented, containing, in beetles alone, over three thousand species. In the Crustacea, and the classes lower, such page 28 as Star Fishes, Echinoderms, Worms and Corals, the museum contains specimens enough for teaching purposes.

The Geological Department of the Museum has been greatly increased from several sources. It now contains several thousand specimens, judiciously selected, thus representing the typical geological and mineralogical rocks.

A Numismatic Collection, made by the late Charles D. Sandford, and containing 3,500 coins, has been presented to the University by the late Rev. Miles Sandford, D.D.

The museum is under the charge of Prof. Ransom Dexter, who has already systematized the work, and who has a sufficient corps of assistants to carry out the necessary labor with dispatch and precision. He has also, in accordance with power vested in him by the Board of Trustees, authorized several agents to solicit contributions of scientific materials for the Museum.