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GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY.

There is probably nowhere a more inviting field for geological research than that which lies immediately at the gates of the University of California. The problems presented both in physical and in organic geology are varied and interesting in the extreme. It is the policy of the department to encourage advanced students to engage in the work of investigating this field, and so contribute to the elucidation of Californian geology.

The facilities for such work are ample. The region adjacent to the Bay of San Francisco, from latitude 37° 30′ northward, is being mapped topographically by the United States Geological Survey, and very excellent contour maps are becoming available as the work proceeds. These maps are made the basis for instruction in geological cartography. The geological and mineralogical laboratories are well equipped for research work, and new apparatus and appliances are being added yearly.

The active progress of research work during the past few years has led to the establishment of a BULLETIN OF THE Department of GEOLOGY, of which the following four numbers have been issued:

No. 1. The Geology of Carmelo Bay, by Andrew C. Lawson, with chemical analyses and coöperation in the field by Juan de la C. Posada.

No. 2. The Soda Rhyolite North of Berkeley, by Chas. Palache.
No. 3. The Eruptive Rocks of Point Bonita, by F. Leslie Ransome.
No. 4. The Post-Pliocene Diastrophism of the Coast of Southern California,

by Andrew C. Lawson.

During the year 1894-5, Professor LE CONTE will lecture twice a week on the following special topics: Mountain Structure, Organic Evolution in Geology, Quaternary Geology, The Glacial Epoch in California, Genesis of Metalliferous Veins.

Associate Professor LAWSON will conduct graduate work in inorganic geology, including discussions of special topics and advanced problems, critical reviews of current literature, prosecution of geological research with the view to publication of results, methods of geological surveying and cartography, and petrographical studies.

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This department offers twelve courses, including lectures, laboratory and field work in mining, metallurgy, assaying, and ore-dressing. These courses are open to properly qualified Seniors and Graduate Students.

Particular attention is given to the mining and metallurgy of the precious metals, for the study of which California and Nevada offer unequalled advantages. The libraries, museums, and laboratories of the University have been carefully designed to meet the needs of students in this direction, and it is confidently believed that opportunities are offered to students of these subjects which are not to be found elsewhere.

AGRICULTURE, HORTICULture, and eNTOMOLOGY.

For Advanced Students.

1 (b). Chemistry and Physics of Soils.

Professor HILGARD and Assistant Professor LOUGHRIDGE.

3. Agricultural and Viticultural Laboratory.

7. Economic Entomology. 9. Parasitic Plant Diseases.

12. Entomological Laboratory.

Mr. JAFFA, Mr. COLBY, and Mr. HAYNE.

Assistant Professor Woodworth.
Assistant Professor Woodworth.
Assistant Professor WoODWORTH.

LIBRARY, MUSEUMS, AND LABORATORIES.

LIBRARY.

The General Library, kept in the Bacon Art and Library Building, now contains fifty-nine thousand volumes, and has been arranged with a view to making it especially valuable as a reference library. It receives a large number of periodical publications, literary, scientific, and general, and is furnished with author and subject catalogues and full indexes. It is constantly augmented by gift and purchase, especially from the income of the Reese Fund of $50,000.

ART COLLECTIONS.

Fine Arts. The Gallery of Fine Arts, in the Bacon Art and Library Building, contains three pieces of sculpture and seventy-one paintings, illustrative of the various periods and schools of art. All of these have been received as gifts from Henry D. Bacon, Mrs. Mark Hopkins, F. L. A. Pioche, Charles Mayne, R. D. Yelland, and others. They form a very interesting collection, which it is hoped will become, by the generosity of other citizens of the commonwealth, still more representative.

In the Library rooms below are numerous portraits, etchings, bronzes; and to the student the Library offers the use of a large number of books on æsthetics and the history of fine art, as well as such collections of reproductions as the Louvre Gallery, Blanc's Peintres, Gallérie des Peintres, Mantz, Krell, etc.

The fourteen hundred photographs of ancient and modern masterpieces of sculpture, presented by John S. Hittell, may be freely used in connection with the study of plastic art.

Collections of modern paintings are on exhibition at the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art in San Francisco, regularly during the spring and autumn months and occasionally at other times.

Classical Archæology. The University has a cabinet of coins and medals, including over four hundred ancient coins, mostly Roman; about three hundred and fifty medals; and a like number of modern coins. There are also sets of wall maps of ancient countries, the gift of Charles Webb Howard, and many photographs and other pictures of ancient life, customs, and architecture.

MUSEUMS.

The museums of the University at Berkeley are made up of materials obtained from many sources, chief among which may be named the follow

ing: (1) The State Geological Survey, which contributed not merely its extensive collections of minerals, of fossils, of marine and land shells, but especially that series of skins of California birds which were the type-specimens of the species described in its report on ornithology. This nucleus of the museum was subsequently enlarged by a set of Wardian casts made up of selected types of the larger fossils. (2) The Pioche collection of shells, fossils, minerals, and ores illustrative of Pacific Coast forms, though principally from South America. (3) The collection of D. O. Mills, containing a large series of California land shells, and of native ores and rocks. (4) The collection of James R. Keene-a costly group of minerals. Recent additions have been numerous and valuable.

Ethnology. This department contains many remarkable stone implements and skulls obtained from mounds and river gravels of the Pacific Coast, and presented to the University by D. O. Mills; wooden and stone implements, and other articles, illustrating the manners and customs of the people of the Pacific Islands, presented by the late F. L. A. Pioche; a small but good collection of Peruvian pottery, presented by Dr. W. Newcomb; a fine collection of Indian utensils, presented by W. C. Chapin; a series of excellent models of the cliff dwellers of New Mexico and Arizona; a collection of relics from Alaska and the Fiji Islands; and a recent addition of nearly forty specimens of ancient Mexican pottery. The museum is frequently enriched by gifts from the graduates of the University.

Botany. The botanical collections of the University contain the following: Some thousands of species of California plants, including more than a hundred new types, the nucleus (about a thousand species) contributed by the State Geological Survey, but the greater part collected during the past six years by instructors and by advanced and graduate students; a representation of native woods, cones, and tree photographs, presented by C. D. Voy; several hundreds of choice specimens from the southern part of the State, by S. B. Parish and others; an herbarium of the grasses of the United States, presented by the Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.; an excellent representation of the flora and silva of the southern Atlantic States, obtained partly by exchange with the above department, and the rest by purchase; a thousand species from Oregon, Washington, and northern Idaho, by gift or purchase from the resident collectors, J. B. Leiberg and others. Through exchange with the government botanist at Melbourne, Baron von Mueller, has been acquired a fine representation of the Australian flora, and this is supplemented by a set of several hundred Australian plants, presented by the late Henry Edwards.

The very extensive herbarium of Professor Greene, illustrating the flora of almost the entire territory of the United States, including about twelve hundred Mexican and Central American, and as many South American plants, besides many European species, is deposited in the botanical rooms for use and reference, as are also the considerable collection of Professor Hilgard.

The cryptogamic side of the herbarium has of late been especially developed, and already contains about four thousand specimens of ferns, mosses, hepatics, marine algae, fungi, etc.

Zoology. A good collection of mammals, birds, reptiles, fishes, mollusks, and radiates-mostly belonging to the Pacific Coast fauna. To these has recently been added an excellent type collection of shells, and a carefully selected collection of mounted vertebrate skeletons. The Curator is forming a collection of Lepidoptera; and in the College of Agriculture there is a collection of beetles, made by E. Ricksecker, and purchased for the University by J. M. McDonald, M. Cooke, and Cutler Paige, containing over two thousand species, well determined and easily accessible to study. Among the recent additions there are an osteological collection representing types of mammals, birds, reptiles, and batrachians, a collection of twenty-three hundred species of shells, two specimens of the mountain goat, and a collection of Arctic birds, these last the gift of Mr. John H. Turner, of the Coast and Geodetic Survey.

Paleontology. A full suite of the fossils of California, both zoological and botanical, collected by the State Geological Survey, and the large collection presented by D. O. Mills. Most of these have been figured and described; the animals, in the volumes of the Geological Reports, by J. D. Whitney; the plants, by Leo Lesquereux, in the memoirs of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology.

A recent addition consists of a very complete collection of fossils representing the whole geological history of the earth. As a working collection it has few superiors in the country. There is also a magnificent collection of crinoids from the celebrated locality near Crawfordsville, Indiana.

A good collection of casts represents the most remarkable extinct forms.

Structural Geology. A number of fine models of the most interesting geological regions; chiefly of the United States, and embodying the results of the researches of the United States Geological Survey; but partly of other countries. To these has recently been added an excellent relief map of the Peninsula of San Francisco from latitude 37° 30′ to the Golden Gate, on a scale of two inches to the mile, the map having been constructed by the Department of Geology.

Economic Geology. Sets of specimens from numerous mines on the Pacific Coast-gold, silver, copper, quicksilver, iron, and coal-showing for each mine the ore-minerals, veinstones, wall-rocks, and other important features.

Mineralogy. A very large collection, fully arranged, and supplied with ample case room. It completely illustrates the instruction in mineralogy, and offers inexhaustible material for investigation, facilities for which are freely placed at the disposal of the student.

Mineralogical Models. Deposited in the Mineralogical Museum is a collection of glass and wooden crystal models, the former illustrating fully the relations of holohedral, hemihedral, and tetartohedral forms.

Petrography. The collection contains many hundred rock-specimens from the Eastern States and the Territories, from England and the European Continent, and a very large number of Californian rocks, collected by the corps of the State Geological Survey and by C. D. Voy. The collection of rock-sections for microscopic study contains nearly three thousand slides, numbered to

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