Professor Theodore D. A. Cockerell, who is describing large numbers of new species of fossil plants and insects from the material collected there. Under the direction of Judge Junius Henderson, Curator of the Museum, the paleontology of the Cretaceous of northern Colorado is being very thoroughly worked up, and large collections of duplicate material are already available for exchange with other institutions for genera and species not represented in Colorado. In this work many hitherto undescribed types have been found. The rapid growth of the museum collections is due, in large measure, to the generosity of friends of the University. The list of names of those who have assisted in previous years has grown too long to print in this place. Among those who have donated valuable specimens within the past year are Messrs. Philip Argall, A. E. Chase, W. A. Kearns, John Knight, C. F. Lake, G. A. Pughe, H. E. Sovereign, Hugh Thatcher, and B. W. Vallatt. Through the assistance of Mr. E. A. Strange, of La Veta, the University has secured for the Museum the remains of a mammoth, a part of which is in a good state of preservation. The working material of the department of Geology has been largely increased by purchases of mineral and rock specimens, and by materials collected by the Department. THE GUGGENHEIM MINERAL COLLECTION-This collection is the gift of the Hon. Simon Guggenheim, and consists of over 1,000 carefully selected type mineral specimens which will be kept together for reference. It includes a large number of rare minerals not common in university cabinets, and is an exceedingly valuable addition to the equipment of the department of Geology. For want of room in the department, the collection is on exhibition in the basement of the Library. ART COLLECTION THE PHILLIPS ART COLLECTION is named from the donors, Mr. and Mrs. Ivers Phillips, of Boulder. It is contained in two rooms of the second floor of the Main Building and one of the third floor. Room 23 is devoted to the Dutch, German, French and English schools of painting; room 24 to Italian and Spanish painting; room 31 to architecture and sculpture. The masters of painting are represented by Braum autotypes, framed in oak under glass; some are of the largest size ever produced, and all are inalterable in carbon. The works in architecture and sculpture are represented by large photographic reproductions, casts and several hundred glass transparencies. The finest casts are Henning's restoration of the entire Parthenon frieze with that sculptor's designs for the missing slabs; the Portland vase in color; the vase of Sosibius; heads from Trajan's column; basreliefs by Donatello, Michelangelo, Flaxman and Wyon; Madonnas by Lucca della Robbia and Michelangelo; heads of Sappho, Juno, Jupiter, Minerva, Eros, Niobe, and the Hermes of Praxiteles; full size statues of Narcissus, Hermes, Apollo Belvidere, Diana of Versailles, Venus de Medici, etc. Persons willing to contribute to a museum or library of fine arts are requested to confer with the curator, Professor J. Raymond Brackett. Lectures covering the main subjects illustrated in the collection will be given on alternate years in the department of Comparative and English Literature; see also courses in Greek and Roman Archaology. THE FARNSWORTH COLLECTION OF COINS was given to the University by Dr. Wilson A. Farnsworth, of Cæsarea, Cappadocia. It consists of some three hundred and fifty Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Mediæval, and modern coins. The Greek coins illustrate autonomous, regal and imperial series, and are of silver and bronze; among them are rare coins from Egypt, Syria, Asia Minor, Macedonia and Greece. The Roman coins illustrate family and imperial series of silver and bronze. The collection is on exhibition in the rooms of the Greek department. GREEK PHOTOGRAPHS-The department of Greek has added to its equipment a collection, almost complete, of photographs of sculptures in the Museum at Athens, as well as excellent photographs of representative statuary in the principal museums of Europe. The department has also a collection of more than two hundred photographs illustrating the scenery of Greece. From most of these, lantern slides have been made. ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS The University of Colorado is undertaking, in collaboration with the School of American Archæology, a series of studies in the ancient culture history of the State. A field expedition will be conducted in the McElmo district in Montezuma County, during the coming summer. A group of ancient ruins will be excavated and the material obtained will be placed in the University Museum. Students of the University can take advantage of the opportunity here afforded for field work. The University is also assisting in the compilation of a record of all the archæological sites in the State. THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY The Library was founded by liberal cash donations for the purchase of books placed at the disposal of the University by Mr. Charles G. Buckingham, of Boulder. It now occupies the central portion of the new Library Building, which is provided with seminary rooms, alcoves for special study, and is in every respect adapted to the increasing activity of the library in University work. Two large wings will be added to the building. The Library contains 42,000 bound volumes, besides a large number of unbound pamphlets; works of practical and permanent worth are being constantly added. The collection is a choice one, largely the selection of the faculty, whose aim has been to supply the various departments with a liberal equipment of practical working material. The building is open to all students, and to the public as a reference library, every day, except Sunday, from 8:15 a. m., to 5:30 p. m., and from 7:00 to 9:00 in the evening, throughout the academic year. A Librarian and Assistant Librarian and two assistants are employed to care for the books and aid students and patrons in their proper use. General, technical, and professional libraries are classed as a unit by the decimal system of Mr. Dewey. All books are shelved in a continuous order of classification, while a relative location and alphabetical order are secured by use of the Cutter notation. Books are catalogued on the dictionary plan, in a single alphabet, by author, subject, and, when of sufficient importance, by title. Upwards of 70.000 cards, with brief bibliography, and, in many instances, full analytical contents, with author and subject duplications, are accessible for student reference. In the alcoves of each department are appliances for reference work, directly adjacent to the books. The students have direct access to all shelves and a dictionary catalogue. Students acquire, by this contact, facility with library ways, the inspiration of uninterrupted reference, and familiarity with literary surroundings. The Librarian offers all new students of every department instruction in the use of the library, which enriches and facilitates the mastery of the other regular work of the curriculum. He gives familiar talks and practical drill under personal supervision, in the details of the use and purpose of classification, shelving, catalogues, indexes, manuals, books of reference, and bibliography. Completed volumes of periodicals are bound to date. Poole's and other indexes of periodical and general literature are at hand to aid reference. Technical journals, not otherwise accessible, are also indexed in the card catalogue, and the bound volumes are shelved for reference as books in their respective departments. Aside from large files of complimentary periodicals and exchanges, the Library subscribes regularly for journals representing the latest and most scholarly research in every department. PERIODICAL LIST FOR 1908. Advocate of Peace. American Chemical Journal. American Chemical Society. American Mathematical Society. American Mathematical Society. American Medical Association. American Monthly Review of American Naturalist. American Physical Education Review. American School Board Journal. American Society of Civil Engineers. Transactions. American Society of Mechanical American Street Railway Journal. (See Street Railway Journal.) Anglia. Anglia. Beiblatt. Annalen de Naturalphilosophie. Annalen der Physik u. Chemie. Botanique. Annals of Botany. Annals of Mathematics. |