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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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the second term makrtwo trips, oiic for insects and a second lor liirds and coinj)afati\e work on xci'tcln-nlc skeletons. The ijirls write an ac- count ot" their \isit and their ;)ai)crs are discussed in ehiss the day follow- ing. It imist he said that tlic collection showinu' life histories, economic \ahie and relationship of insects could not he iniprox'cd for the purpose of stii)plenicnti!ii;- oiii- teaching, and that the new frou group is one of the best exhihits in the whole Museum as adapted foi- correlation with om- high school biology. The Museum has loaned to oiu- school cases of insects, birds and invertebrates, which we have found of great value. A set of pictiu'cs. ))repared under the direction of Dr. Winslow, was loaned to us last year and we used it with more than six hundred girls. The pictures showed plainly the conmion carriers of disease and how infectious diseases can be prevented. In my last visit I brought a blind girl and enough catmot be said of the assistance she received. She gained her first accurate idea of the mammals and birds about which she had read and heard. The Washington Irving biology girls .soon get the " Museiun habit," for once their attention is directed there, tliey go often and intrcst others, especially members of their own famiK'.
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"Our own liands ari' almost as lilvely to carry disease germs as are those of anyone else, for in the day they touch a hundred things which someone else may have in- fected. This is why the thorough washing of the hands before eating is so neces- sary." (From cii'cuhiting school chart) III. TlIK MtSEf.M \ L.\BOR.\TORY FOR ClASSES By Anna M. Clark Head of Department of Nature Study and Science, The New York Training School for Teachers THE studies made by our students at the Museum are a very importjint part of our nature study course. Four class trips at least each year are made for the purpose of studying the invertebrate groups in Darwin Hall and the birds, insects and minerals. 239

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