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tention on business in Canada, and Mr. Harold K. Decker kindly- 

 filled his place with a lecture on Protection of Birds in Winter. 

 The schedule for December is as follows : 

 Dec. 7 — A Short Talk about Faerie People, by Mr. J. L. G. 

 McMahon. Dec. 14 — Adventures Among Indians, by Mr. Alan- 

 son B. Skinner. Dec. 21 — A Trip to Hawaii, by Miss M. D. Lee. 

 Dec. 28 — A Christmas Song Rally, by Miss Edith M. Pollard. 



The task of packing and planning for removal to our new 

 building is occupying all the available time and attention of the 

 museum staff, to the exclusion of other activities not absolutely 

 essential to the proper maintenance of the Museum as a public 

 institution. The installation of any new exhibits will not be pos- 

 sible in our present quarters ; but every effort will be made to 

 preserve an attractive display of such material as experience has 

 shown to be of greatest interest to children and to the average 

 adult visitor. 



Facilities for local historical research in connection with 

 the library will not be disturbed until the latest possible date, in 

 as much as this is one of the special features of our Museum of 

 which the best advantage appears to be taken by those in search 

 of definite information, and is the feature which is apparently most 

 appreciated, as indicated by the complimentary acknowledgements 

 received from several of our visitors, and the time spent by many 

 of them consulting our literature, maps and documents. 



Recent interesting issues of the Farmers' Bulletin, U. S. De- 

 partment of Agriculture, are No. 842 — Modern Methods of Pro- 

 tection Against Lightning, by Roy M. Covert ; No. 844 — How to 

 Attract Birds in the Middle Atlantic States, by W. L. McAfee; 

 No. 845 — The Gipsy Moth and the Brown-Tail Moth and Their 

 Control, by A. F. Burgess; No. 851 — The House Fly, by L. O. 

 Howard and R. H. Hutchinson; No 861 — Removal of Stains 

 from Clothing and other Textiles, by Harold L. Lang and Anna 

 H. Whittelsey; No. 896— House Rats and Mice, by David E. 

 Lantz; No. 902 — The Silverfish or "Slicker," an Injurious House- 

 hold Insect, by E. A. Back. 



These publications are written in popular language, ex- 

 cellently illustrated, and contain a wealth of authoritative gen- 

 eral information such as the average person is consantly seeking. 

 They are regularly received and placed on file in the library of 

 the Museum, where they may be consulted by any visitor, or 

 copies may be obtained free by addressing the Division of Public- 

 ations, U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



Since the last issue of the Bulletin, donations to the 

 Museum collections and library have been received from Philip 

 Dowell, Mary S. Francis, Alaric Hansen, F. J. Heal, Arthur 

 Hollick, Walter S. Mayer Jr., Louis A. Pape, L. R. E. Paulin, 

 Horatio J. Sharrett, Lawrence Snyder, James Sullivan, George W. 

 Tuttle. 



