*From Report of Commissioner of Education for 1874.

& Comprises the Owen Cabinet and Ward casts, and contains enough of all the species to illustrate the most important genera of all except rare orders.

b These are skeletons.

c With coëlenterates.

d With phanerogams.

e The museum has also 1,770 specimens in the ethnological department.

ƒTotal zoological collection, (including deposits,) 25,000 species, 100,000 specimens.

h These are fossils.

iRecent mollusks and molluscoids.

The museum contains a collection of shells which cost from $12,000 to $15,000.
With mollusks.

m The museum contains 65,000 specimens of fossils not enumerated separately.

n Also 250,000 geological specimens.

Also 1,254 specimens of human anatomy, including 52 skeletons. The surgical collection also includes many anatomical illustrations.

TABLE XVIII-PART 1.-Statistics of museums of art for 1875;

1 Wadsworth Athenæum, Art Gallery..... Hartford, Conn...... Stockholders...

a Exclusive of the art collections, which have cost $33,736.
b In addition to its own the museum exhibits important loan-collections.

When founded.

rom replies to inquiries by the United States Bureau of Education.

1842 Daniel Wadsworth & others

From visitors,
only.

Endowment

Donations

1,400

All other

5, 870

Repairs, &c

2,500

12 Collections.

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1807

by Prof. R. H. Mather. Citizens of Boston

hall.

1852 City of Boston..

c By collection of pictures and art books which cost $20,000. One endowment is "history, art, and cabinet fund."

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