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cases accompanied with sketch ilhistrating the 

 use of the object shown. 



Staff. The Curator in Chief is Mr. 

 Frederic A. Lucas, formerly Curator in the 

 United States Xational ^luseum. The staf? of 

 tlie Department of Xatural Science is as fol- 

 lows : Curator of Botany, Edward L. Morris ; 

 Ctirator of Entomology, Jacob Doll ; Associate 

 Curator of Entomology, Carl SchaefTer; Cur- 

 ator of Ornithology, George K. Cherrie. 



Publications. The scientific publications of 

 the ]\Iuseum consist of a "Natural Science 

 Bulletin," issued from time to time, and so 

 far largely devoted to descriptions of new in- 

 sects obtained by the Museum expeditions. A 

 yearly report is issued, and during eight 

 months of the year, in conjunction with the 

 Children's Museum, "The !^Iuseum News" is 

 published monthly, noting the number of ac- 

 cessions to the Museum and giving informa- 

 tion in regard to its active work. 



Library. The Museum library consists of 

 16,000 volumes covering the Museum sub- 

 jects, namely : Fine Arts, Natural Science and 

 Ethnology. It is especially strong in zoologi- 

 cal indexes, including the Concilium Biblio- 

 graphicum cards, and in Entomolog}- and 

 American Ethnology. It is free to the public 

 for reference use only. The appropriation for 

 the Museum for 1907 amounted to $95,000. 



The Children's Museum. 



The Children's Museum, a branch of the 

 Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, is 

 situated in Bedford Park, which is bounded 

 by Brooklyn and Kingston Avenues and 

 Prospect and Park Places. The building is 

 open FREE every weekday in the year and 

 on Sunday afternoons. The hours for visit- 

 ors are : 9 A. M. to 5.30 P. M. weekdays, 2 

 P. M. to 5.30 P. AI. Sundays. The attend- 

 ance for the seven years, ending December 

 31st, 1906, amounted to 615.393, an average of 

 240 per day The Children's Jvluseum occupies 

 an old residence, which comprises nine exhibi- 

 tion rooms, two main halls, a lecture room and 

 library. 



E.v'hibits. Its collections are selected and 

 installed with special reference to the enjoy- 

 ment and educational needs of children, and 

 illustrate the following branches of learning: 

 Zoology, Botany, United States History, 

 Geography and Art. Besides the larger col- 

 lections, smaller exhibits are permanently 

 installed. Among these are a Color Exhibit — 

 which shows natural objects of brilliant col- 

 ors : Silk Exhibit — showing silk caterpillars, 



moths' eggs, etc., specimens of raw silk, silk 

 thread and cloth; an exhibit illustrating best 

 methods for capturing and preserving insects. 



Small aquaria, vivaria and animal cages 

 containing living fish, tadpoles, leeches, newts, 

 dragon fly larvae, water beetles, frogs, toads, 

 snakes, turtles, lizards and small animals — 

 such as rats, guinea pigs and rabbits — are kept 

 on exhibition throughout the building for the 

 especial benefit of those city children who sel- 

 dom go to the country. 



Aim and Work of 'the Museum. The Mu- 

 seum is distinctly an educational institution, 

 whose aim is to attract and interest children 

 in the subjects represented by its collections. 

 It seeks the co-operation of teachers in the 

 schools bv correlating its exhibits with the 

 school courses of study and by maintaining 

 regular free courses of lectures arranged for 

 the grades in school. The attendance at these 

 lectures alone in 1906, though strictly vol- 

 untarv, exceeded 17,200 during the school 

 months. Miss Anna B. Gallup is the Curator, 

 and there are two assistants, one of them being 

 a librarian. 



BIOLOGIC.\L LABORATORY OF THE BROOKLYN 

 INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. 



This laboratory is adjacent to the Station 

 for Experimental Evolution, at Cold Spring 

 Harbor. The laboratory, known as the 

 John D. Tones Laboratory, is a one-story 

 building with a high roof, placed near the 

 sea wall. It consists of one large central room 

 for students, six smaller rooms for investigat- 

 ors and two store rooms. About one thousand 

 feet to the northward is a second labora- 

 torv fitted with thirteen small rooms for in- 

 vestigators. The work at this laboratory is 

 carried on chiefly during the months of July 

 and August. Students and investigators are 

 housed in three dormitories, and meals are 

 supplied in one of them. Of the dormitories, 

 the most important is Blackford Hall on the 

 highest part of the land of the laboratory. 

 This building is made wholly of reinforced 

 concrete and" is 125 feet long by 30 feet wide 

 and two stories high. It contains an assembly 

 room, a dining room with a capacity of a 

 hundred persons, a kitchen, store rooms in the 

 basement and twenty-four sleeping apart- 

 ments. Running water is obtained from a 

 loftv spring on an adjacent hill. 



the laboratory has the use of a thirty-five 

 foot naphtha launch for collecting, and is 

 provided with small boats and ordinary col- 

 lecting equipment. Instruction is given almost 



