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COLLECTIONS. 
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Starfishes and Worms. Adapted for Grades 4A and 5A: 
Containing typical species of the two groups . . 24,848 
Sponges and Corals. Adapted jor Grades 4A and 5A: 
Containing examples of about fifteen species . : . 14,501 
Minerals and Rocks. Adapted jor Grades 3B and 4A: 
Containing twenty specimens of minerals and building 
stones ; ; : : : ; 48,816 
Native Woods. Adapted for Grades 2A and 5B: 
Containing elm, hickory, maple, white birch, ailantus, 
sweet-gum, sour-gum, chestnut, sycamore. Speci- 
mens show cross, longitudinal and oblique sections 
of the wood, characteristic bark, annual ring, etc. 38,197 
Total number of day-school pupils 660,740 
The number of schools using the collections from September, 1906, 
to June, 1907, was 273, distributed among the boroughs as follows: 
Manhattan, 125 Bronx, 24 
Brooklyn, 73 Queens, 11 
Richmond, 138 Corporate Schools, 27 
The increase in the use of the collections by the pupils of the vacation 
schools has been marked and gratifying. ‘Twenty-seven centers used 
the collections during July and August, 1907. 
The work of the Museum in furnishing these collections to the public 
schools has attracted wide attention not only in this country but also 
in Europe, and several cities, particularly Newark, Milwaukee and St. 
Louis, have taken steps to introduce similar collections into their schools. 
THE MODEL OF THE ATLANTIC SQUID. 
HE Department of Invertebrate Zodlogy has recently 
placed on exhibition, in the Synoptic Hall, No. 107 of 
the ground floor, an enlarged model of the Common 
Squid (Loligo pealiz), a marine invertebrate common 
off the Atlantic Coast especially about Woods Hole, 
Massachusetts, where it is very destructive to the her- 
ring fisheries. ‘The model, an illustration of which is given on page 
