THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 



Schools. Requests for these collections were received from 33 of 

 the Vacation Schools — 18 in Manhattan and 15 in Brooklyn — and 

 during the summer 49 of our collections were loaned to them. 

 These were studied by nearly 25,000 children in the four weeks 

 that they were in circulation. The letters from the principals 

 and teachers speak of the great enjoyment and profit the 

 children have obtained from them. 



The entire expense of providing the collections and of deliver- 

 ing them at the schools, as well as that of transferring them from 

 one school to another, is borne by the Museum. g. h. s. 



THE STUDY COLLECTION OF BIRDS. 



With the acquisition of the George B. Sennett collection of 

 birds, numbering some 8,000 specimens, the study collection of 

 birds is made to comprise more than 80,000 specimens, with the 

 result that in this country the American Museum collection is 

 second only to that of the United States National Museum. The 

 whole series is being re-arranged and catalogued, so that it may 

 be available for use by students and specialists. It forms the 

 Museum reference library of bird life. It occupies two large rooms 

 on the top floor of the building and is an interesting and tangible 

 evidence of the growth of the Museum in the line of material 

 suitable for research work. Twenty years ago one of the rooms 

 now used for this study collection served as the lecture hall for the 

 beginning of Professor Bickmore's courses of lectures to teachers 

 and not one specimen of the present great collection was in the 

 Museum. 



Museum. 



MUSEUM NOTES. 



|HE new wing for the reception of the power plant of 

 the Museum building has been completed and the 

 machinery has been installed. The dynamos which 



j have been placed in this structure are capable of 

 providing amply for the present needs of the 

 The wing has been arranged in such a manner as to 



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