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BUILDING. The museum occupies 5000 square feet of floor space 

 for exhibition, and 700 for offices, workrooms, etc. 



ADMINISTRATION. By a curator, responsible to the curator-in- 

 chief of the Brooklyn Institute Museums. 



SCOPE. Public school work is the primary purpose of the museum. 

 Colored charts, mounted birds, and boxes containing life histories of 

 insects are loaned to teachers for classroom use, the teachers calling 

 to select the material and arranging for its transportation to and from 

 the school. A lecture is given at least once a week for each grade of 

 the public schools, with special lectures to any class upon request. 

 Physical apparatus is provided for experiments at the museum and a 

 wireless telegraph station has been established and maintained by 

 young men interested in the subject, five of whom have qualified as 

 expert wireless telegraph operators through individual experiment- 

 ing at the museum without formal instruction. A description of the 

 work of the Children's Museum was published by the curator in the 

 "Proceedings of the American Association of Museums," Vol. I. 



LIBRARY. About 6000 volumes on natural science, biography, 

 geography, history, and art intended for use as a reference library by 

 both staff and public. The library is frequently consulted by students 

 and teachers of all ages as well as by children. 



PUBLICATIONS. A section of the " Museum News," issued monthly 

 from October to May by the Brooklyn Institute Museums, is devoted 

 to the Children's Museum. The annual reports of the curator are 

 printed with the reports of the curator-in-chief . 



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

 5 . 30 and on Sundays from 2 to 5.30. The average annual attendance 

 is 102,000, including an attendance of 18,700 on lectures. 



LONG ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY. (Pierrepont and Clin- 

 ton Streets.) 



In addition to an extensive library this society maintains a museum 

 under the care of Mary E. Ingalls, assistant curator, the office of 

 curator being vacant. The museum includes a large collection of 

 Indian implements and relics from Long Island; the C. L. Allen col- 

 lection of arrowheads and other Indian implements from Illinois, 

 Kentucky, Arkansas, Kansas, Minnesota, and Oregon; the Beebe col- 

 lection from graves at Ancon, Peru; the Scarborough collection of 

 general and local botany; an extensive collection of minerals and 

 rocks from the boulder drift of Long Island; minerals and fossils 

 from the New York State Museum; the Pike collection of East Indian 

 shells ; and a collection of Long Island birds. One of the most valuable 

 possessions of the museum is a mounted Labrador duck. 



