4§ REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1920. 



including its corporation this year under the laws of the Dis- 

 trict of Columbia. Aside from its business sessions the program 

 consisted of : 



Address of welcome, by Dr. diaries P. Walcott, Secretary of the Smithsonian 

 Institution and Keeper ex officio of the United States National Museum. 



Response, by Prof. Paul M. Ilea, President of the Association. 



Children's work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, by Miss Anna Curtis 

 Chandler, Museum Instructor, Metropolitan Museum of Art. 



Demonstration story hour for children, by Miss Chandler and Miss Margaret 

 Tucker, Curator, Cambridge Museum for Children — before children from the 

 Washington Public Schools. 



Discussion of educational methods in museums, by Miss Anna B. Gallup, 

 Curator, Children's Museum, Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. 



Basilica or temple, by Benjamin Ives Oilman, Secretary, Museum of Fine Arts, 

 Boston. 



New groups in the Illinois State Museum, by A. R. Crook, Chief, Illinois 

 State Museum. 



Some principles of group construction, by Laurence Y. Coleman, Chief, De- 

 partment of Preparation and Exhibits, American Museum of Natural History. 

 Discussion led by Roy W. Miner. 



Microscopic forms in museum groups, by Roy W. Miner, Associate Curator, 

 Department of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History. 



Habitat groups at the Fairbanks Museum, by Miss Inez Addie Howe, Bot- 

 anist and Instructor, Fairbanks Museum, St. Johnsbury, Yt. 



The American Museum and Temple of Music, by Miss Alice A. Driggs, 

 Founder, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



Mounting geological specimens with sulphur, by Chester A. Reeds, Associate 

 Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History. 

 Discussion led by Dr. Edmund Otis Hovey. 



Exhibit furniture used by the Department of Agriculture al Fairs and Expo- 

 sitions, by Frank Lamson Scribner, Expert on Exhibits, U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture. 



A microscopic view of the blood circulation (motion pictures), by Charles F. 

 Herm, Cinema biologist and photomicroscopist, of Harrison, N. Y. Discussion 

 led by Charles R. Toothakcr. 



A museum of tine ails in I'lopia, by linger Elliott, Supervisor of Educational 

 YVork, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Discussion led by Clyde II. Burroughs. 



A museum for children, by Dr. Charles J. Douglas, Chairman of the Board of 

 Trustees, Children's Museum of Boston. Discussion led by Miss Delia I. Griffin. 



The small historical museum, by Dr. Frank H. Severance, Secretary and 

 Treasurer, Buffalo Historical Society. Discussion led by Dr. Melvin R. Gilmore. 



A living outdoor museum, by Dr. Melvin R. Gilmore, Curator, State Historical 

 Society, Bismark, N. D. Discussion led by W. 0. Mills. 



A city museum, its history and development, by Edward D. Putnam, Curator, 

 Rochester Municipal Museum, Rochester, N. Y. Discussion led by Dr. Frank H. 

 Severance. 



The exhibition series of birds and mammals in the United States National 

 Museum by Dr. R. W~ Shufeldt, Washington, D. C. 



The members of the Museums Association inspected the adjacent 

 building for the Freer Collections, on the afternoon of May 18, under 

 the jjuidance of Mr. W. deC. Ravenel, Administrative Assistant to 



