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ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN. 



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ARTS AND SCIKXCKS. 



Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts 

 and Sciences. 



The Museum is situated on Eastern Park- 

 way, and is easily accessible by the Flatbush 

 Avenue trolley cars, the Ninth or Vanderbilt 

 Avenue cars and the St. John's Place cars 

 from the Bridge. 



Hours. The building is open Free, every 

 day in the week excepting Mondays and Tues- 

 days, when an admission fee of twenty-five 

 cents is charged for adults and ten cents for all 

 children under fifteen years of age. The hours 

 for visitors are g A. M. to 6 P. M. on week- 

 days and 2 P. M. to 6 P. M. on Sundays and 

 7.30 to 9.30 Thursday evening 



Attendance. The attendance for the ten 

 years ending December 31, 1906, was 1,091,- 

 717, the largest for any one year being 143,- 

 047, for 1906, or an average of 391 a day. 



Size. The Museum building is 524 feet in 

 length, the Eastern and Western wings being 

 approximately fifty-five feet in depth, and the 

 Central or Dome section 120 feet. The top 

 floor of the building is devoted entirely to 

 Art, the second floor to Natural History and 

 the first floor contains the Hall of Ethnology, 

 Sculpture, Ceramics and other art objects. 



The basement contains a lecture room hav- 

 ing a seating capacity of 1.300, offices and 

 work rooms as well as one hall devoted to the 

 Ethnology of the Pacific Islands and the East. 

 The Library will later on be removed to this 

 section. 



Exhibits, Department 

 of Natural Science. The 

 exhibits of the Depart- 

 ment of Natural Sciences, 

 owing to lack of space, 

 are at present only pro- 

 visionally arranged. They 

 comprise an extensive 

 series of sponges, corals 

 and mollusks, good col- 

 lections of insects, a small 

 number of birds and a 

 moderate series of mam- 

 mals. It is intended, so 

 far as possible, to make 

 these collections of edu- 

 cational value, the inten- 

 tion being to give a gen- 

 eral outline of the animal 

 kingdom, each large group 

 accompanied by speci- 

 mens illustrating its more 

 evident characters, and 

 to furnish as well good 

 illustrations of the factors 

 bearing upon the evolution and distribution of 

 animals. 



In addition to the specimens included in the 

 systematic series, there are a number of 

 groups of insects, birds and mammals show- 

 ing life histories or illustrating habits and 

 habitats. These include among others, the 

 Golden Eagle, King Penguin, Orinoco Hang 

 Nest, Musk Ox, Walrus, Fur Seal and Moun- 

 tain Goats. There is a special series illus- 

 trating flight, including mounted specimens 

 and skeletons of the various vertebrates that 

 fly or sail. 



One room is devoted to the fauna of Long 

 Island, but at present includes only a number 

 of the birds, and there is an extensive series 

 of eggs of North American birds, and another 

 series showing the variation in size, number 

 and character of birds' eggs. 



The Museum contains a small study series 

 of South American birds and very important 

 collections of insects, especially in Coleoptera 

 and Lepidoptera, the latter comprising about 

 30,000 specimens. 



Other Exhibits. The Department of Fine 

 Arts has on exhibition important collections of 

 paintings, statuary and ceramics, as well as 

 a series of casts from the antique. The De- 

 partment of Ethnology has one entire hall 

 devoted to exhibits illustrating the life, arts 

 and industries of the Southwestern Indians. 

 All exhibits are very fully labeled and in many 



