The collections in Botany, Geology and Mineralogy will be 

 developed and arranged along similar lines, prominence being 

 given always to the natural resources of our own locality. 

 It is with these that the children should first become thoroughly 

 familiar. Our field happens to be particularly wide and rich. 

 The extent and variety of the timber-landsi, the growing of 

 tea, rice, cotton and garden-truck, the occurrence of phosphate 

 rock, workable clays, and various building materials, with all 

 the industries arising therefrom, place practically no limit 

 to the educational exhibits which this Museum will consider 

 it a duty to arrange. 



To meet the needs of special times and seasons, special exhi- 

 bits can be arranged in co-operation with the school work. 

 Suggestive titles for such exhibits are, "Native Spring Wild 

 Flowers," "Poisonous Plants of our Coast Region," or "Birds 

 of our City," "Birds of the Current Season," etc. 



With such a conception of the relation of the Museum to the 

 work of the schools as I have already outlined, an exhibition 

 of living forms is not incongruous. Among the first possi- 

 bilities of the life room would be salt and fresh water aquaria, 

 in which the smaller forms of life can be observed and studied 

 under natural conditions. Frogs, lizards, snakes and those 

 animals which are content and thrive in captivity may also be 

 cared for, and thus opportunity given to young students for 

 direct observation of habits. 



The impossibility of an attempt to duplicate such a series 

 of instructive exhibits in all the schools of the city is at once 

 obvious, and yet the disadvantages associated with a single 

 central museum containing illustrations for school lessons 

 have, perhaps, occurred to you. To obviate these in part, a 

 series of small loan collections in convenient portable cases 

 can be made up from duplicate material in the possession of 

 the Museum and sent out to schools desiring them for a 

 period of time, to be replaced by other collections at the re- 



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