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ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN. 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 

 ELWIN R. SANBORN, ASST. EDITOR 



Published Quarterly at the OfUce of the Society, II Wall St., 



New York City. 



Copyright, i<)Q7, by the New York Zoological Society. 



No. 27. AUGUST, 1907 



Subscription price, 50 cents for four numbers. 



Single numbers, 15 cents. 



MAILED FREE TO MEMBERS. 



(Btticevi of tije S>ocietp. 



^resilient : 



HON. LEVI P. MORTON. 



executibe Committee : 



Charles T. Barney, Chairman, 

 John S. Barnes, Madison Grant, 



Percy R. Pyne, William White Niles, 



Samuel Thorne, Henry Fairfield Osborn, 



Levi P. Morton, ex-oKcio. 



General Officers : 



Secretary, Madison Grant, ii Wall Street. 

 Treasurer, Percy R. Pyne, 52 Wall Street. 

 Director, William T. Hornaday, Zoological Park. 

 Director of the Aquarium, Charles H. Townsend, Battery Park 



JBoarb of illanagers : 



EX-OFFICIO, 

 The Mayor of the City of New York, Hon. George B. McClellan. 

 The President of the Dep't of Parks, Hon. Moses Herrman. 



tiasi of 1908. Class of 1909. 



Henry F. Osborn. Levi P. Morton, 



Charle: T. Barney, Andrew Carnegie. 



William C. Church, 



Lispenard Stewart. 

 H. Casimir De Rham, 

 George Crocker. 

 Hugh D. Auchinclo! 



€.UtM of 1910. 





George F. Baker, 

 Grant B. Schley. 

 Payne Whitney, 



Samuel Thorne. 

 Henry A. C. Tavlo: 

 Hu^h J. Chishoim. 



F. Augustus Schei 

 Percy R. Pyne. 

 George B. Grinnell, 

 Jacob H. Schiff. 

 Edward J. Berwind. 

 George C. Clark, 

 Cleveland H. Dodge. 

 CILedyard Blair. 

 Cornelius Vanderbilt, 

 Nelson Robinson. 

 Frederick G. Bourne, 

 W. Austin Wadsworth, 



BOARD OF EDUCATlOt^— Continued. 



Kindergartens 6oi 



Register of pupils in Kindergartens. 18,556 

 Evening Elementary Schools, 1906- 



1907 ' 83 



Register in Evening Elementary 



Schools 87,228 



Evening High Schools 13 



Register in Evening High Schools . . 20,728 



In the City of New York a child studies 

 nature in some form during seven years of its 

 public elementary school career. 



The nature course of study is divided into 

 three cycles, each of which is carefully adapted 

 to the age and mental development of the 

 child. 



In the first cycle, covering the first four 

 years of school life, the child is taught to 

 gather facts about plants and animals by ob- 

 servation. He is taught to recognize and 

 name natural objects and to respect life in 

 whatever form it may appear. 



In the second cycle the pupil is taught to 



arrange in an orderly manner the facts ac- 

 quired by observation — ^in other words, to 

 classify in an elementary way. In this cycle 

 order is brought out of seeming chaos. 



In the third cycle, covering the last two 

 years of the course, the experimental science 

 of physics supplants the observational work 

 on plants and animals. Physics is taught by 

 experimental demonstrations by the teacher, 

 by individual laboratory work on the part of 

 the pupils, and by recitations and discussions. 



In order to facilitate the study of this sub- 

 ject experimentally, all of the new buildings 

 and many of the old buildings have a science 

 room equipped with gas, running water, a 

 demonstration table and opaque shades. Some 

 knowledge of gravity, the mechanical powers, 

 the mechanics of liquids and gases, sound, 

 heat, light, magnetism and electricity is given 

 to the pupils, A large percentage of the chil- 

 dren in the public schools visit the City mu- 

 seums in classes with their teachers. 



FREE LECTURES. 



This work of the Board of Education is 

 under the supervision of Dr. Henry M. Leip- 

 ziger. 



The total attendance at public lectures dur- 

 ing season 1906- 1907 was 1,141,447. 



The total number of lectures was 5,464. 

 Three hundred were on Zoology or allied sub- 

 jects, approximating a total attendance of 

 60,000 persons for the year on the subject of 

 Zoology. 



The number of lecture centers for the year 

 was 167; the total number of lecturers be- 

 tween 500 and 600. 



The expenses of the Free Lecture Bureau 

 are between $150,000 and $200,000 per year. 



THE MORRIS HIGH SCHOOL. 



This school is one of the nineteen free pub- 

 lic high schools of New York City of similar 

 design. 



Location. The Morris High School is sit- 

 uated on Boston Road and i66th Street, four 

 minutes' walk from the Third Avenue Ele- 

 vated Station at i66th Street. It has a com- 

 manding position in one of the highest parts 

 of the Bronx, and its Gothic tower can be 

 seen for miles around. 



The building is five stories in height above 

 the basement and sub-basement, and has forty- 

 six regular class rooms, twelve laboratories 

 of science, four lecture and demonstration 

 rooms, two gymnasiums and an auditorium 

 capable of seating over 1,300. 



