90 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 
THE CIRCULATING NATURAL HISTORY LOAN COLLECTIONS. 
oom, WING to the increase during the school year 1904— 
poy rg05 in the demand for the small nature study 
collections which the Museum loans to the public 
schools it has been necessary to prepare additional 
sets. The following collections have been added 
to those in use last year: Owl, Blue Jay, Robin and Bluebird, 
ten each, duplicating the original bird collections, and ten 
collections, constituting a new series, each containing a Pigeon, 
a Goldfinch, a Hummingbird, a Vireo and a Scarlet Tanager. 
Twenty sets of a collection showing cross, longitudinal and 
oblique sections of ten species of our more common trees have 
also been prepared. The total number of collections available 
for nature study work at the present time is 235. They have 
been in use in 184 of the city schools, distributed among the 
Boroughs as follows: Manhattan, 139; Brooklyn, 28; Bronx, 
ao (Oueens, 9: JRichmond, &: 
Up to May 1, the collections have been studied by 255,845 
pupils, as follows: 
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Birds Sony LOIS, Re Mee ec ere 
Triseetses.'G Ue a ES ! 4 eee eee 
WiGoGdisy PRI Wea SA Aten ay eed coc pee Sie 21,836 
Maneraises “6.2. Gy BO. Ne SG 9 aeaeeee 
IM Ko) DUI) a Oe MR Lal St eae i 9,452 
SS Uae nein At NO | ats ilerete, ot Me ee matey, 8,133 
Corals: EAN Gas, Te ee ee 6,105 
Crabs rg 5,943 
The total number of pupils eae tie different sets to the 
end of the school year will be about 325,000. 
MUSEUM NEWS NOTES. 
APPRECIATION of the work done by the Jesup North Pacific 
expedition in the study of the tribes of Eastern Siberia has been 
shown in special manner by the Czar of Russia, who has be- 
stowed upon President Jesup the Knighthood of the Imperial 
and Royal Order of St. Stanislaus of the first degree. The or- 
