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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo04amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL Schools. Requests for these collections were received from 33 of the Vacation Schools—18 in Manhattan and 15 in Brooklyn—and during the summer 49 of our collections were loaned to them. These were studied by nearly 25,000 children in the four weeks that they were in circulation. The letters from the principals and teachers speak of the great enjoyment and profit the children have obtained from them. The entire expense of providing the collections and of deliver- ing them at the schools, as well as that of transferring them from one school to another, is borne by the Museum. g. h. s. THE STUDY COLLECTION OF BIRDS. With the acquisition of the George B. Sennett collection of birds, numbering some 8,000 specimens, the study collection of birds is made to comprise more than 80,000 specimens, with the result that in this country the American Museum collection is second only to that of the United States National Museum. The whole series is being re-arranged and catalogued, so that it may be available for use by students and specialists. It forms the Museum reference library of bird life. It occupies two large rooms on the top floor of the building and is an interesting and tangible evidence of the growth of the Museum in the line of material suitable for research work. Twenty years ago one of the rooms now used for this study collection served as the lecture hall for the beginning of Professor Bickmore's courses of lectures to teachers and not one specimen of the present great collection was in the Museum.
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Museum. MUSEUM NOTES. ;HE new wing for the reception of the power plant of the Museum building has been completed and the machinery has been installed. The dynamos which j have been placed in this structure are capable of providing amply for the present needs of the The wing has been arranged in such a manner as to 82

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