THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 



series with a set of pathogenic organisms such as the smallpox 

 organism (Cytoryctes variola) and the malarial organism {Plas- 

 modium malarice). The enlarged models, in glass and wax, have 

 been skilfully prepared by Dr. Dahlgren. Those of the Radio- 

 larians and Foraminifera are nearly completed. 



Among noted recent visitors to the Museum may be men- 

 tioned the Moseley Educational Commission, comprising more 

 than thirty of the prominent educators of Great Britain, which 

 came in force to examine the building, its halls, and the collec- 

 tions exhibited therein, for the purpose of comparing this mu- 

 seum with those in the British Isles. Mr. Moseley ordered from 

 the Department of Public Instruction one hundred lantern slides 

 illustrating this museum and the schools, academies and univer- 

 sities of the State of New York, and their use by classes of pupils. 

 These slides are to be used by the members of the commission in 

 their lectures in Great Britain on the subject of education and 

 educational facilities in the United States. 



Dr. T. Storie Dixson, a trustee of the Australian Museum 

 at Sydney, New South Wales, visited the Museum during No- 

 vember in the course of a tour around the world for the purpose 

 of learning what is being done by museums in general for the 

 education of the people. Dr. Dixson made a thorough inspec- 

 tion of the special educational features here and ordered a series 

 of lantern slides representing the country from Honolulu to New 

 York City and including a full set illustrating this museum. 



The Department of Public Instruction has issued a series of 

 slides illustrating native and ornamental trees. The set consists 

 of seventy-eight views, beginning with the forests of the Adi- 

 rondack region and ending with the specimens of the Jesup 

 Collection of North x\merican Forestry in the Museum. Some 

 of the more familiar species are illustrated by views of the trees 

 at different stages of growth, the leaf, the trunk, the flower and 

 the fruit. 



Professor Victor Goldschmidt, professor of crystallography 

 in the University of Heidelberg, Germany, spent an afternoon 



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