152 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 
the Museum and which attracted thousands of visitors, has been 
removed. 
THE New York City Board of Health has installed in the 
West Assembly Hall on the ground floor of the Museum the 
material which formed its exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase 
Exposition in St. Louis last year. 
THERE has been a greater demand than ever on the part of 
the vacation schools for our nature-study collections which are 
loaned to public schools. Thirty-two out of the thirty-three 
vacation schools in session during the summer have been supplied 
with collections, and, according to data furnished by the teachers, 
they have been studied by more than 40,000 school children. 
This number makes a total of 365,000 children who have studied 
the collections during the past school year. 
At the request of the Librarian of the 176th Street Branch of 
the New York Public Library, the Museum has loaned a collec- 
tion, consisting of local birds, insects and marine animals, for 
exhibition in the reading-room of that branch. In response 
to a similar request, an archzeological collection has been placed 
in the Tompkins Square Branch, East Tenth Street. In this 
collection are shown the stone and bone implements that were 
made and used by the prehistoric Indians. The collections 
have proved so interesting and instructive to adults as well as to 
children, that Dr. Arthur E. Bostwick, Chief of the Circulating 
Department, has asked for the extension of similar privileges to 
other branch libraries. 
At a meeting of the students of the Summer School of Colum- 
bia University, held at the Museum on July 26, Mr. George 
H. Sherwood gave an informal talk on the Museum’s work of 
loaning nature-study collections to public schools and of giving 
lectures for school children. Mr. F. M. Chapman spoke on 
Museum methods in the collecting of scientific data and materials, 
with special reference to his studies in the flamingo colonies of 
the Bahama Islands. Mr. Chapman illustrated his talk with 
lantern slides made from some of the remarkable photographs 
