MUSEUM DEPARTMENT OF QUEEN'S Curator-JAMES NICOL, ESQ., F.G.S., Professor of Geology and THE general constitution of the Museum of the College is described in the Statutes, pages 30 and 36. A Museum Committee is appointed by the College Council, in which is vested, in conjunction with the Curator, the general management of the Museum, which has been enriched by the purchase of several large collections of minerals, fossils, rocks, and plants. There is also being formed an extensive collection of models of machinery and apparatus. There have been also placed in the Museum several valuable and extensive donations of minerals and fossils. Extensive special collections of physiological and pathological anatomy, of materia medica, and midwifery, have been purchased, and are deposited in the museums of the medical Faculty, in charge of the special profes sors. The Curator of the Museum being now occupied with the arrangement and classification of the collections, in conjunction with the Museum Committee, the Museum cannot be considered as open to students, except when specially admitted by the Curator for purposes of study; nor to visitors, except when specially introduced by the professors or officers of the College. The regulations of the Museum are, therefore, not yet finally prepared for publication, but will appear in the Calendar of next year. Donations of minerals, fossils, zoological or botanical specimens, models, &c., are requested from all friends of education, and will be officially reported by the Curator, and acknowledged by the College Council. |