well represented, and a considerable collection of foreign. species has been made. A collection of fungi includes a full set of those most injurious to other plants, causing rusts, smuts, molds, etc. A collection of wood specimens from two hundred species of North American trees well illustrates the varieties of native wood.

Plaster casts represent fruits of many of the leading varieties as well as interesting specimens of morphology, showing peculiarities of growth, effects of cross-fertilization, etc.

ENGINEERING

The following departments of the College of Engineering have made extensive and valuable collections, which will be found in rooms in Engineering Hall:

ARCHITECTURE

A large number of specimens of stone, bricks, terra. cotta, sanitary fixtures, casts of moldings and of ornament have been accumulated, together with some excellent specimens of industrial arts, models of structures, working drawings of important buildings, 3,000 lantern slides, 20,000 plates and photographs, and an excellent working library.

CIVIL ENGINEERING

The civil engineering department has a large room containing samples of iron, steel, wood, brick, and stone; materials for roads and pavements; models of arches and trusses, one of the latter being full-sized details of an actual modern railroad bridge. The department also possesses a very large collection of photographs and blue-print working drawings of bridges, metal skeleton buildings, masonry structures, and standard railroad construction.

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

The department has a collection of samples illustrating standard practice in the industrial applications of electricity. There is also a rapidly growing collection of lantern slides, photographs, blue-prints, drawings, pamphlets, and other engineering data.

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

This department has among other things a partial set of Reuleaux models, together with models of valve gears, sections of steam pumps, injectors, valves, skeleton steam. and water gauges, standard packings, steam-pipe coverings, and drop forgings. There are also fine examples of castings, perforated metal, defective boiler plates, and sets of drills, with numerous samples of oil, iron, and steel. A large number of working drawings from leading firms and from the United States Navy Department forms a valuable addition to the above collections.

GEOLOGICAL

Lithology is represented by type collections of rocks. 5,500 specimens), arranged to illustrate Rosenbusch; from Voigt and Hochgesang, L. Eger, and A. Kranz; a type collection from Ward; 745 thin sections of rocks and minerals; a large number of ornamental building stones; a stratigraphic collection to illustrate Illinois geology, and a collection of Illinois soils (104).

The mineralogical collection is especially rich in rockforming minerals, ores, and materials of economic value. It contains over 10,900 specimens carefully selected to meet the wants of the student, and 575 crystal models.

The paleontological collection (45,000 specimens) contains representative fossils from the entire geologic series. It embraces the private collections of A. H. Worthen (including 742 type specimens); Tyler McWhorter; Mr. Hertzer; 200 thin sections of corals; the Ward collection of casts, and a considerable number of special collections representing the fauna and flora of particular groups.

LIBRARY ECONOMY

A collection of books and pamphlets on library science, of library reports and catalogs, of mounted samples showing methods of administration in all departments, and of laborsaving devices and fittings has been made, and is arranged by

the Dewey Decimal classification in the Library School seminary room.

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 fur-bearing animals, numerous rodents, good representative marsupials, cetaceans, edentates, and monotremes. Fifty species of this class are represented by eighty specimens and 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, together 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 internai 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.

The collection of insects has been greatly extended and enriched by the Bolter Collection, donated to the University by the executors of the estate of the late Andreas Bolter, of Chicago, which now contains over 16,000 species, represented by about 120,000 specimens, named, labeled, and systematically arranged.

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 several sets of Ziegler wax models, and numerous 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.

ART GALLERY

The University art gallery was the gift of citizens of Champaign and Urbana. It occupies a room in the basement of Library Building, and furnishes an excellent collection of models for students of art. In sculpture it embraces thirteen full-size casts of celebrated statues, forty statues of reduced size and a large number of busts and bas-reliefs, making in all over four hundred pieces. It includes also hundreds of large autotypes, photographs, and fine engravings, representing many of the great masterpieces of painting of nearly all the modern schools, and a gallery of historical portraits, mostly large French lithographs, copied from the great national portrait galleries of France.

Other collections of special value to art students embrace a large number of casts of ornament from the Alhambra and other Spanish buildings, presented by the Spanish govern

ment; a set of casts from Germany, illustrating German renaissance ornament; a series of art works from the Columbian Exposition; large numbers of miscellaneous casts, models, prints, and drawings, such as are usually found in the best art schools, and a model in plaster and a complete set of drawings of a competitive design by Henry Lord Gay for a monument to be erected in Rome, commemorative of Victor Emmanuel, first king of Italy.

LIBRARY FACILITIES.

The library contains 46,000 volumes and 4,500 pamphlets. The reading room contains 544 periodicals. The library of the State Laboratory of Natural History and that of the Agricultural Experiment Station contain about 9,500 volumes and 11,000 pamphlets. The Pedagogical Library in the rooms occupied by the Department of Education consists of some 3,000 books and pamphlets. It is very full in modern text-books and contains the courses of study of nearly all the large city school systems. All these libraries are open to students of the University.

The Public Library of the City of Champaign has recently become the possessor of the valuable library of western history collected by the late Edward G. Mason, Esq., President of the Chicago Historical Society. The collection is thus made accessible to University students.

The library and the reading room are open every day, except Sunday, from 8 a. m. until 5 p. m., and from 6:30 p. m. until 9. p. m. on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.