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Show MUSEUM FOR YALE Valuable Shipments of Plants and Textiles Received. NEW HAVEN. Conn . Dec. 20. Yale Is to have a commercial museum This announcement wis made last night following fol-lowing the arrival of a shipment of valuable val-uable plants and textile collections from the Department of Agriculture. The shipment, which filled two cars, Includes In-cludes the important exhibits of the Government at the Portland exposition, besides additional gifts from the Department De-partment of Agriculture and the Canadian Cana-dian Pacific railroad. Among them are the Alaskan, Porto Rlcan and Hawaiian collections shown at Portland, which are almost lnvalu-I lnvalu-I able, and cases of material showing plant breeding, drugs, poisonous plants and products. Illustrations of plant Introduction, In-troduction, fibers and grass and forage plant seed. The museum is to be used In the course in commercial geography The collections were received through the Interest taken In the Yale museum by Bet n tarj Wilson and others. |