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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo11amer (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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('(H)pi:n.\Ti()y with tiik rnii.ic schools material, wliicli ('iial)l('s us to make continual additions to this scries of slides. The \ic\vs ilhistratc ))hinl ht'c, animal life, industries, customs ot" people, and physical ^■co which may he dcli\crc(l in one of the Museum's classrooms. It is from this souree of sujjjjly that we (h-aw the material to illustrate tlie inforuKil lectures which are ,i;i\'en to school children. These courses were first sufjfjested l)y the New ^ ork ( ity Teachers' Association in I'.IOI. Since that time they have been <,n\'eu regularly in the spring;; and fall. The subjects are chosen with especial reference to the courses of study <ii\('n in the syllabuses for history, <;eo in the Auditoriiuu on blanks fur- nished by the Museum. The broad scope of the educational work of the Mu- seum is indicated in the action of the Trustees in recently authorizing the equipment of a room especially reserved for the use of the blind. As yet only a small beginninii' has been made, but speci- mens of animals and Indian implements have already been set aside and labeled in raised type. The devel- opment of this feature of the Museum's activity has been amply provided for through the bequest of Phebe Anna Thome and the generosity of her executors, who have en- dowed the work as a memo- rial to Jonathan Thorne. It is safe to say that no visitors to the Museum ob- tain a greater enjoyment from the collections than do the \ arious groups of blinfl j)eoplc, who may often be seen in the exhibition halls.
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Two compartments of a tra%'oling ca.se sliowitij; junco and blue jay on their way to the children of some primary .school. The Museum has prepared several hundred traveling cases of l)irds

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