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Title: Annual catalogue of Swarthmore College
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Swarthmore College
Subjects: Swarthmore College -- Catalogs
Publisher: Philadelphia: Lippincott
Contributing Library: Swarthmore College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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The Reading-Room is supplied with the leading literary andscientific journals and the prominent newspapers of the principalcities. Literary Societies are maintained by the students. There aretwo for young men and one for young women. These hold regularmeetings for the reading of essays, etc., and for practice in debate.Their Libraries, under their own management, contain over threethousand volumes and are accessible to all students. A Scientific Society, a Natural History Club, and an ArchitecturalClub are also maintained by the students. The Museum. The Museum of the College is strictly a teaching collection, andthe specimens from its cases are in constant use in the lectures andlaboratories in Biology; it is growing steadily, but always in thedirection of rendering more perfect the means of illustrating the dif-ferent departments of natural history, and with no intention of makingit a collection of curiosities or miscellaneous articles, however interest-ing they may be in their way.
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SWARTHMORE COLLEGE. 21 It includes the following collections : 1. The Joseph Leidy Collection of Minerals, the result of thirty-years discriminative collecting by its founder, occupies four largedouble cases, and consists of exceedingly choice cabinet specimens ofcrystallized minerals, characteristic rocks and ores, and transparentand opaque models of the various systems of crystallization. 2. The Collection of Comparative Osteology consists of a largeseries of partial and complete skeletons, prepared at Prof. HenryWards Natural History Establishment, in Rochester, N. Y., and illus-trating the structure of the framework of backboned animals. 3. The Wilcox and Farnuni Collection of Birds, comprises fourlarge double cases of stuffed specimens of native and foreign birds.Nearly all the species visiting this State are represented. 4. The Frederick Kohl Ethnological Collection consists of twocases of Indian implements, weapons, clothing, etc., mostly fromAlaska. 5. The C F. Parker Collecti

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