Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Botany. 1000 specimens. Society of natural history of Delaware, Wilmington. Mrs Ghere- tein Yeatman, Kennett Square Pa., corresponding secretary. Paleontology. No collection. Mineralogy. 1500 specimens, part of which are lent to the society, which, however, owns a fairly representative collection of Delaware minerals. No duplicates for exchange; though Fred J. Hilbiber will exchange Delaware minerals for the benefit of the society. Economic geology and lithology. Collections small. Zoology. 400 specimens of the birds of New Castle county and a fine collection of Delaware moths and butterflies. Frank Morton Jones will exchange. Botany. 50,000 specimens: well made herbarium of about 11,500 species, generally from the United States and northward, but including forms from Mexico, West Indies and Europe, carefully prepared and arranged for use of students; a local herbarium called the
Edward Tatnall herbarium of New Castle county ; collection of diatoms, made by the late Christian Febiger. No exchange material; but William M. Canby, Edward Tatnall, and J. T. Pennypacker will exchange for the benefit of the society. Ethnology. Collections small. State college for colored students, Dover. W. C. Jason, president. Collections small. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Catholic university of America, Washington. Edward L. Greene, professor of botany. Botany. Between 30,000 and 40,000 specimens: the most complete collection extant of Rocky mountain and Pacific coast vegetation, gathered by Prof. Greene during 25 years of residence and travel, containing types of some hundreds of new species described by him since 1880; a nearly complete herbariumof eastern and southern botany, with much material from Mexico, South America and Europe. Duplicates of eastern and …
