the second term makrtwo trips, oiic 

 for insects and a second lor liirds 

 and coinj)afati\e work on xci'tcln-nlc 

 skeletons. The ijirls write an ac- 

 count ot" their \isit and their |)ai)crs 

 are discussed in ehiss the day follow- 

 ing. It imist he said that tlic 

 collection showinu' life histories, 

 economic \ahie and relationship of 

 insects could not he iniprox'cd for 

 the purpose of stii)plenicnti!ii;- oiii- 

 teaching, and that the new frou 

 group is one of the best exhihits in 

 the whole Museum as adapted foi- 

 correlation with om- high school 

 biology. 



The Museum has loaned to oiu- 

 school cases of insects, birds and 

 invertebrates, which we have found 

 of great value. A set of pictiu'cs. 

 ])repared under the direction of Dr. 

 Winslow, was loaned to us last year 

 and we used it with more than six 

 hundred girls. The pictures showed 

 plainly the conmion carriers of 

 disease and how infectious diseases 

 can be prevented. 



In my last visit I brought a 

 blind girl and enough catmot be said 

 of the assistance she received. She gained her first accurate idea of the 

 mammals and birds about which she had read and heard. The Washington 

 Irving biology girls .soon get the " Museiun habit," for once their attention 

 is directed there, tliey go often and int<>rcst others, especially members of 

 their own famiK'. 



"Our own liands ari' almost as lilvely to 

 carry disease germs as are those of anyone 

 else, for in the day they touch a hundred 

 things which someone else may have in- 

 fected. This is why the thorough washing 

 of the hands before eating is so neces- 

 sary." (From cii'cuhiting school chart] 



III. TlIK MtSEf.M \ L.\BOR.\TORY FOR ClASSES 

 By Anna M. Clark 



Head of Department of Nature Study and Science, The New York Training School 



for Teachers 



THE studies made by our students at the Museum are a very importjint 

 part of our nature study course. Four class trips at least each 

 year are made for the purpose of studying the invertebrate groups 

 in Darwin Hall and the birds, insects and minerals. 



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