New Britain herald., 1916-09-15
EUROPEAN CRISISO
 80 SAME AS TODAY
Newspapers at Museum Have
 News from Warfare Abroad

of May over 28,OO0 people have paid it a visit, but also by the numerous and splendid gifts it has received.
 One of the latest additions to the museum is the herbarium of a local college student. It is g. splendid collection of pressed wild flowers and plants and all are proper ly named and listed. The mounting of the specimens displays much care and pains, causing the plants to stand out very clearly and making the en- tire collection unusually well and neatly arranged. It is the aim of the museum to have a large collection of plant life, and this gift gives a big start in this branch.
 Almost daily insects of different species are brought to the museum, and these are mounted and prepared for display The important part which insects play in relation to plant life and agriculture has caused Curator Schurr to arrange numerous insects in a way which will show them feed- irg upon certain vegetation It is the aim of MT. Schurr to in time have a collection of the insects which are injurious to garden, orchard and shade trees, showing their life his tories.
 A list of those who have collected and given insects to the museum will be published later.
 Bird students will be particularly interested in the announcement that R. T. Chapman of Portland has pre- sented a large egg collection, repre- senting about fifty species of birds, ranging from 8 ruby-throated hum ming bird to the great horned owl. Some of the eggs with nests will be used with specially mounted birds and oleverly arranged surroundings to show the nesting habits of the feath- cred creatures.
 Among the numerous interesting things presented by MT. and Mrs. Henry B. CroweH are newspapers published In Middletown, Conn.,, in I798, 1900 and 1908; a dictionary of 1788, and a book published in New Haven in 1794. Tn one of the news papers, published October 10, 18OO,e are severa items and articles which tend to show that conditions in Flu rope were somewhat the same thNa as in the present day.
 , Some of the news notes read as fol- lows: r~ ...
 Paris, Aug. 19, 1SO0.-The news from the north of Germany, and the best informed journals in that quar- ter, state that the Russians are ap- Iroaching more and more toward the Austrian frontiers. The army which is now at Brezeck, and on the banks of the Vistula, consists of four grand divisions, each of 2O,O00 men, of which third are cavalry. Besides this army a second is forming in Lithuania, and on the shores of the Baltic"
 Another item reads:
 'Italy Rome, July 2S, 1SOO.-The French have applied to the Pope for leave to march an army through the Ecclesiastical states against Naples. Whatever answer is made, it is not to be suppoed the French will relin- quish their design; should a passage be refused them, they will no doubt force one"
 Another reads:
 'London, Aug. 27, 1S00.-The Chief Consul Buonaparte has demanded of Portugal, as the price of peace, 10000 crufades Ca crufade is in value 55 cents) that the ports of Spain should be open to the French and that they should be placed upon an equal foot ing, in commercial privileges, with the most favoured nation.'
 One article dated Denmark, Copen- hagen, Aug. 16, 1900, says: "Orders were yesterday issued to fit out all the large and small ships of war in this harbour.-They consist of ! five sail of the line and several gun | boats, which are to be commanded by | Admiral Lurzow. Other ships are i'm | mediately to be put into commission. There has been a general press of | seamen to man the feet | One entire page of the paper is de- | voted to dispatches from England, France, Germany, Italy, Austria, Den | mark and Russia relating to or treat l ing on war.
 | Among other gifts to the museum is collection of Indian arrowheads pre- sented by William Upson Nelson A. | Y ates also presented arrowheads, and these two donations help in enlarging the Indian curio collection.
 The gift of number of old English and American coins from Mrs Martha | Miller has considerably increased the collection of coins. Frederick s. l Chamberlain presented 8 rare old | Connecticut cent of 1788 and William
 Smith donated several U S. cents dat ing back in the early eighteen hun | dreds.
 Numerous other gifts have been 1 made to the museum which will call | for accounts in themselves. Many
 of the things which have been pre-
 sented are not on display yet, but
 when they are exhibited, which will
 be shortly, the public will be surprised
 at the additions. It will pay one to
 visit the museum now, and then make
 another call in few weeks and note
 the progress. The Museum of Natural
 History and Art of the New Brita n
 Institute is surely growing rapidly and
 is deserving of it's grand attendance