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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo07amer (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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114 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL Collections. No OF Pupils. Starfishes and Worms. Adapted for Grades 4A and oA: Containing typical species of the two groups . . . 24,848- Sponges and Corals. Adapted for Grades 4A and 5A: Containing examples of about fifteen species . . . 14,501 Minerals and Rocks. Adapted for Grades SB and 4A: Containing twenty specimens of minerals and building stones . ' 48,816 Native Woods. Adapted for Grades 2A and 5B: Containing elm, hickory, maple, white birch, ailantus, sweet-gum, sour-gum, chestnut, .sycamore. Speci- mens show cross, longitudinal and oblique sections of the wood, characteristic bark, annual ring, etc. 38,197 Total number of day-school pupils 660,740 The number of schools using the collections from September, 1906, to June, 1907, was 273, distributed among the boroughs as follows: Manhattan, 125 Bronx, 24 Brooklyn, 73 Queens, 11 Bichmond, 13 Corporate Schools, 27 The increase in the use of the collections by the pupils of the vacation schools has been marked and gratifying. Twenty-seven centers used the collections during July and August, 1907. The work of the Museum in furnishing these collections to the public schools has attracted wide attention not only in this country but also in Europe, and several cities, particularly Newark, Milwaukee and St. Louis, have taken steps to introduce similar collections into their schools. THE MODEL OF THE ATLANTIC SQUID. UK J)ci)artnici\t of Invertebrate Zocilogy has recently placed on exhibition, in the Synoptic Hall, No. 107 of the ground floor, an enlarged model of the Common S(;nid (LoVkjo pealii), a marine invertebrate common off the Atlantic Coast especially about Woods Hole, Massachusetts, where it is very destructive to the iier- ring fisheries. The model, an illustration of which is given on i)age
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