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...lowest forms of life. It is estimated that there are over two billion one-celled animals of various types kept by the Department in glass jars and long cement tubs. There are, however, 50 large mussels, 75 ordinary frogs and three African bullfrogs, 300 minnows, 500 gold flies, two crayfish, 50 leeches, 5000 tadpoles, 125 lizards of different kinds, about 100,000 worms of different varieties, 300 tropical fish, 300 mice, and 15 rats included in the collection...
Under the University Museum, the same Department keeps a smaller collection consisting of 30 garter snakes, a boa constrictor, a copperhead, a dozen turtles, 10 tree frogs, a pair of chamma which is a type of Oriental fish, a newt, a crayfish, and a few frogs...
...rats, 6 alligators, 45 frogs, three pigeons, a dozen garter snakes, 50 rabbits, 40 guinea pigs, 12 turtles and two or three dozen Louisiana bullfrogs. This supply is replaced about twice a week. There are also occasional specimens of oppossums, wodchucks, chimpanzees, special varieties of monkeys, canaries, raccoons, crayfish and sheep. Each winter the farmers of Wake-field and Reading, donate a hog for the study of diseases of swill-fed swine...
...rats, six alligators, 45 frogs, three pigeons, a dozen garter snakes, 50 rabbits, 40 guinea pigs, 12 turtles, and two or three dozen Louisiana bullfrogs. This supply is replaced about twice a week. There are also occasional specimens of opossums, woodchucks, chimpanzees, special varieties of monkeys, canaries, racoons, crayfish, and sheep. Once in a while the farm receives rare animals from explorers and they have at present a South American quoquit which resembles a cross between a raccoon and an ant-eater. Also ench winter the farmers of Wakefield and Beading donate a hog for the study of diseases...
...Monkeys range from four to seven dollars. Hens, ducks, etcetera, are all bought at regular market prices by the pound. Pigeons and turtles both range from a quarter to 85 cents and a Louisiana bullfrog cost a dollar. Oppossums are $4 a pair and copperheads are $8 each. Crayfish and snails both cost about a nickel each and salamanders are 25 cents each...