THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 



October last. The lecturers and subjects for the Tuesday evening 

 course are as follows : 



January 7th. — W. E. Meehan, — "Greenland." 



January 14th. — Miss Mary V. Worstell, — "The Yellow- 

 stone National Park." 



January 21st. — Egerton R. Young, — "The Indians of the 

 Wild Northwest: Their Haunts; Their Sports; Their Homes." 



January 28th. — F. S. Dellenbaugh, — "The Chff- and Cave- 

 Dwellers of the Southwest." 



February 4th. — W. C. Peckham, — "The State of New York, 

 and its Remarkable Natural Features." 



February nth. — George W. Bicknell, — " Flashes of Light 

 on Yankee Land." A description of Central New England. 



February i8th. — Jacques W. Redway, — "In the Heart of 

 the Rockies." 



February 25th.— E. O. Hovey,— "The Black Hills and Bad 

 Lands of South Dakota and Wyoming." 



The programme of the course for Saturday evenings is as 

 follows : 



January 4th. — Harlan I. Smith, — " An Evening in the Amer- 

 ican Museum of Natural History." 



January nth. — Chas. L. Bristol,— "The New York Aqua- 

 rium." A description of the fine fish collection at the Battery. 



January 18th. — Miss Mary V. Worstell, — "Bronx Park." 

 A description of the Park and the New York Botanical Gardens. 



January 25th. — Henry F. Osborn, — "The Zoological Gar- 

 den." A description of New York's great Zoological Garden at 

 Bronx Park. 



February ist. — W. T. Elsing, — "The Reign of Fire." The 

 first of a course of four lectures on " The Story of the Earth." 



February 8th.— W. T. Elsing,— "The Warfare of Water." 



Februarv 15th. — W. T. Elsing, — "The Great Ice Age." 



February 22d.— W. T. Elsing,— "The Earth and Man." 



At the Board of Education lectures, given at the Museum 

 during October, November and December, the official total at- 

 tendance at the Tuesday evening course of eleven lectures was 

 15,924, and at the Saturday evening course of nine lectures, 

 5,409. The Saturday evening lectures were more technical in 

 character than were those given on Tuesday evenings. The lec- 

 ture on the Passion Play, October 2 2d, was heard by a thousand 

 people more than could obtain seats in the hall. 



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