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ADMINISTRATION. By a director, responsible to a board of trus- 

 tees. 



SCOPE. The primary aim of the museum is educational, special 

 effort being made to instruct the people of the county and the pupils of 

 the public schools of the county. Special attention is paid therefore 

 to local collections. The academy conducts classes in botany, 

 zoology, and mineralogy, and lectures are given on these subjects. 



LIBRARY. There is a reference library for the use of the staff. 



PUBLICATIONS. These include two volumes of memoirs, and nu- 

 merous annual reports. 



ATTENDANCE. Open free to the public, week-days from 9 to 5, 

 Sundays from 2 to 5. The attendance in 1909 was nearly 70,000. 



SHARON: 



SHARON HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 



The society has a small collection of antiques in charge of George 

 Kempton, custodian. 



SOMERVILLE: 



SOMERVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 



This society, which is said by Thwaites to have a museum of an- 

 tiques, reports that its collections are at present in storage. 



SOUTH NATICK: 



HISTORICAL, NATURAL HISTORY, AND LIBRARY SOCIETY. 



This society is said by Thwaites to maintain a museum of natural 

 history specimens and historical relics housed gratis in a room provided 

 for by the will of Oliver Bacon. 



SPRINGFIELD: 



CITY LIBRARY ASSOCIATION. Art Museum. 



STAFF. Curator, George Walter Vincent Smith; Assistant cura- 

 tor, Eleanor A. Wade; 3 assistants, i cabinet maker, i charwoman, and 

 i watchman. 



ART. The museum includes the Horace Smith hall of sculpture 

 and the George Walter Vincent Smith collection. The former occupies 

 the first floor of the museum building and consists of 72 plaster casts 

 of Greek and renaissance sculpture, 1200 photographs, 12,000 prints of 

 modern and antique sculpture, and a small reference library of books 

 on the subject. 



