Also at WSU are the Harold E . Culver Collection, with fossils of pre-historic animals; the Lyle and Lela Jacklin Collection of Silicified Wood & Minerals; and S . Elroy McCaw Fluorescent Mineral Display.
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In the meantime the best available scientific collection of silicified wood from the fossil forest ( itself listed as local heritage ) passed to the care of Lake Macquarie Council which after keeping it for some time disposed of it ( into the Lake ) without notifying any of the geologists interested in or studying the fossil tree horizon.