ENGINEERING.-The following departments of the College of Engineering have made extensive and valuable collections, which are placed 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, 4,500 lantern slides, 20,000 plates and photographs, and an excellent working library, with large classified collections of plates from architectural journals, and 1,800 stereoscopic views of buildings, etc. A complete set in 10 Vols. of Hough's American Woods, 250 species shown by three sections each. Larger Hough's hand specimens of 300 American woods comprising 3 to 4 pieces in each. Collection of builders' hardware and fixtures.

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 fullsized 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. This 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, blueprints, 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 examples of castings, perforated

metal, defective boiler plates, and set 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 (9,000 specimens), arranged to illustrate Rosenbusch; from Voigt and Hochgesang, L. Eger, and A. Kranz; a type collection from Ward; 1,000 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 12,000 specimens carefully selected to meet the wants of the students, and 575 crystal models, a considerable collection of gems and precious stones, and one of polished marbles, granites, and other ornamental stones has recently been added.

The paleontological collection (49,000 specimens) contains representative fossils from the entire geologic series, but is especially rich in paleozoic forms. 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 labor-saving devices and fittings has been made, and is arranged by the Dewey Decimal classification in the Library School seminary room.

PEDAGOGICAL.-In the rooms of the department of education in University Hall is a considerable collection

of illustrative material from the manual training departments of various schools; photographs of school buildings, drawings and constructive work by pupils in the public schools, and the nucleus of a representative collection of apparatus for the school laboratory.

ZOOLOGICAL.—The zoölogical 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-nine species of this class are represented by one hundred and one specimens and all the others, excepting the Sirenia, 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 300 species. The dissections il

lustrate 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 1,700 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 the 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 400 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 government; a set of casts from Germany, illustrating German renaissance ornament; a series of art works from the Columbian Exposition; and large numbers of miscellaneous casts, models, prints, and drawings, such as are usually found in the best art schools.

LIBRARIES

The general University library, the library of the State Laboratory of Natural History, that of the Agricultural Experiment Station, and that of the College of Law are all at the University in Urbana. The libraries of the Colleges of Medicine and Dentistry and the School of Pharmacy are in Chicago.

The general University library, including the Agricultural Experiment Station library, contains 74,326 volumes and 11,000 pamphlets. The reading room contains over 3,100 bound volumes of periodicals. The University has a subscription list of 1,031 periodicals, the current numbers of which are kept in the reading room. The library of the State Laboratory of Natural History contains 5,600 volumes and 16,050 pamphlets. The Library of the College of Law contains the Federal and State Reports, the leading text-books, and a line of leading periodicals. The department of education has made a special collection of about 1,500 books and 3,000 pamphlets, which are kept in the rooms of the department in University Hall. This collection contains a very good assortment of modern text-books, and copies of the courses of study of nearly all the large city school systems.

The libraries of the Colleges of Medicine and Dentistry and the School of Pharmacy are described further on in the catalog, in connection with these institutions.