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IV. EDUCATION AND MENTAL CULTURE IN SWEDEN.
and fossil plants, embracing, more completely than any other museum,
plant-fossils from the polar regions, as well as from the coal-bearing
strata of Skåne; g) the Mineralogical section, which is considered fully
equal to the most renowned mineralogical collections in other European
museums; and finally h) the Ethnographical collection, which embraces
20,000 numbers.
From the Biological Museum, Stockholm.
Among the museums of natural history in the provinces, should
be mentioned, in the first place, the Zoological section of the Museum
of Gothenburg, containing rich collections from all divisions of the
animal kingdom. Special attention may be called to the rich
collection of home and foreign birds, the whale collection, the collection of
fishes from the province of Bohuslän, and the great collection of sea
invertebrates.
Among the natural history collections at the University of Uppsala
we may mention the Zoological Museum and the Botanical Museum,
whose herbarium of Scandinavian phanerogams is said to be the best of
its kind. At the Lund University there are also considerable natural
history collections, such as the Zoological Museum, the Botanical
Museum, etc.
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