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meeting the class went away satisfied that 

 something worth while had been learned 

 about the different divisions of the plant 

 world. May 9th the children's bird class 

 met with Miss Dewhurst. There being 

 about forty in the class, it was divided 

 into two divisions for field meetings, each 

 division going out once a week, and both 

 di\isions spending an hour at the Muse- 

 um Saturday mornings. So far as practical, 

 the different bird families have been dis- 

 cussed in class and observation by the 

 children noted. Incidentally, botany has 

 been combined with the outings. The 

 class closed the last Wednesday in June 

 with a field day at Tower Park. 



Wednesday evening, June 20th, Dr. 

 John M. Bemis gave an interesting and 

 instructive lecture on "Some Psycholog- 

 ical Points in the Study of the Brain." 

 It was illustrated with blackboard draw- 

 ings, which helped the audience to better 

 understand this comprehensive subject. 



The classes and lectures were planned 

 by our president, to whom the public is 

 greatly indebted. 



With the first catkins and tree buds, 

 the exhibition of spring fiowers was start- 

 ed April 5th. Although the first of the 

 season was somewEat backward, Mr. Bra- 

 man had not failed to provide an abund- 

 ance for the exhibition. Mss A. M. 

 Moore, a member of the Society, has also 

 contributed largely to the display. Some 

 of the rarer wild flowers have been ob- 

 tained from the Horticultural Society ex- 

 hibits. Mr. Henry Kinney has also brought 

 in a few of the rarer species. Up to the 

 present time there have been exhibited 

 61 trees, shrubs and vines, and 145 herb- 

 aceous flowers, making a total of 206 

 species. 



The attendance from April 1st, 1899, to 

 April 1st, 1900, has been 6,322. During 

 that time there have been loaned 226 

 birds, 11 mammals, 9 lots of minerals, and 

 several fossils, shells; books and charts. 

 There have been sold at the Museum 33 

 copies of Prof. Perry's Physical Geogra- 

 phy of Worcester, also five sets of min- 

 erals and a few duplicate shells. 



These contributions have been received: 

 Specimens of rock from Dunbarton, N. 



H., Prof. William F. Abbot, of this so- 

 ciety; oven bird, Robert Leslie, city; sev- 

 eral lots of wild flowers. Miss A. M. 

 Moore, of this society; Cecropia moth, 

 Mrs. H. A. Bryant, city; Luna moth, 

 ]\[rs. E. A. Putnam, city; wild flowers, 

 Mrs. J. A. Balcom, city, Mrs. Isaac D. 

 White, city, and Mrs. M. A. Maynard, 

 Northboro; two Cecropia moths, a young 

 man; Cecropia moth, Mr. Walter Claflin, 

 city; Sphinx moth, a young man; beetle 

 from Marietta, Wisconsin, Mr. Prank M. 

 Keith, city; chimney swift. Dr. Merrick 

 Bemis; chrysalis of the Archippus butter- 

 fly, Mrs. Henry Phelps, city; nine birds' 

 nests, Arthur Reynolds, city; a collection 

 of shells and minerals, formerly belong- 

 ing to Helen C. Reed, given by Mrs. A. 

 Eliza Whiteomb, city; mineral specimens, 

 Mr. J. L. Emmons, city; young alligator, 

 alive, !Mi-s. Chetwood Smith, city; berries 

 and leaves of the pepper tree of Califor- 

 nia, INIiss A. M. Moore; weasel. Miss Alice 

 Chapin, city; two specimens of lignite. 

 Miss Marianna H. Kent, city. 



Books contributed to the library are; 

 Smithsonian Institute Report for 1897; 

 Systematic History — The Worcester Rec- 

 ords, Mr. Franklin P. Rice of this So- 

 ciety; "The Book of Nature," by John 

 Mason Good, and "Phytologia, or the Phil- 

 osophy of Agriculture," by Erasmus Dar- 

 win, given by the American Antiquarian 

 Society; Part I of "The Birds of Eastern 

 Xorth America," by Charles B, Cory, 

 from the Field Columbian Museum, Chi- 

 cago; North American fauna, No. 16, 

 from the U. S. Department of Agricul- 

 ture; "Our Planet, its Past and Future," 

 by William Denton, given by Mr. Frank- 

 lin P. Rice; City Hall Memorial, from 

 the City Council; Transactions of the 

 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and 

 Letters; Smithsonian Institute Report for 

 LS02, from the American Antiquarian So- 

 ciety; and these pamphlets: "The Pro- 

 duction of Precious Stones in 1898," by- 

 George F. Kunz, from Washington; 35 

 copies of the "Flora of Lake Quinsiga- 

 mond," Prof. George E. Stone, author and 

 donor. 



These books have been added by pur- 

 chase: "Guides for Science Teaching — No. 



