The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-25

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student good means for the examination of
the lower forms of animal life. For the
study of comparative anatomy and osteo-
logy, there is a fine series of mounted
skeletons from Prof Wards establishment
at Rochester, New York.
The cabinets of the University exhibit
quite fully the mineral wealth of the west.
There is hardly a mine in the territory
that is not represented by specimens of its
ore in the collections of the University.
The abundance and variety of the colleo-
lions in this department, besides being of
great value and assistance to the student
of mineralogy and metallurgy, will also
give to the general visitor good idea Of
the mineral resources OF the territory
In addition to its varied collection Of
fossils, the University has recently placed
in the museum a series of the celebrated
Ward casts of noted fossils. These casts
are plaster copies of fossils that are scat
tered through the museums of Europe and
America and are almost equal in value to
the original fossils for the study of general
geology. 4
Contributions to the museum are solicited
from all persons interested in the educa-
tional and material development of this in
termontane region. Donations will appear
in the cabinets of the museum under the
name of the contributor, and list of spec
linens thus collected each year, with the
donors names, will be published in the
Annual of the University. Express or
freight charges on specimens will be as
sumed by the University.
LIBRARY AND READING ROOM
The library and reading room, to which
all the students have access, is a prominent
feature of the University. The library
contains nearly five thousand volumes of
standard and miscellaneous books and the
tables of the reading room are furnished
with more than thirty papers and perIodi-
Gals, comprising all the important home
publications, besides others received from
abroad; so that altogether in these facili-
ties, the student has a most valuable aid
furnished him in the prosecution of his
studies.
Besides the books of the University Ii
brary the territorial library, containing
nearly five thousand volumes, has been
transferred to the University building, and
while the books of the two libraries are
agement OF the University librarian. Thus
there are in all nearly ten thousand volumes
of valuable books constantly accessible to
the student.
The library, in charge of a competent
librarian, is open each day, except Satur-
day and Sunday, throughout the academic
year, and is free not only to the students Of
the University but also to the general
public.
More than one thousand dollars Lave
been expended in books, chiefly technical
works and works of literature, for the Ii
brary during the past year. Besides these,
as many as twenty periodicals have also
been added by purchase, to those already
on the tables of the reading room.
The University is an institution of which
the territory may well feel proud. For the
past twenty years it has afforded the means
of higher education to the sons and
daughters of the people of Utah. Its Off
GERS have always worked to build up the
cause of education in our midst, and the
University is now approaching period of
development at which it will be able to
place the means of good education within
the reach OF every youth truly desirous of
acquiring it. 1t is the only Institution of
higher learning in the territory that is
truly secular, the academies, seminaries,
etc., being under the special patronage and
control of one or another of the various re-
| ligious denominations. The well-known
independence of the University in the past,
while it may have given some offense, first
to persons of one denomination or class and
then to those of another, has secured for it
the confidence and patronage of the great
majority of the people, who believe in edu-
cation for its own sake. 1t is the general
expectation that before long the University
will be able, through aid from the legisla-
ture, to establish department of law and
medicine, making it what it should become
as an educational factor IN the develop
ment of this western region, and giving to
this territory the prominence of being the
educational centre of the surrounding
country.