Report of the President, 



The Museum has continued to cooperate with the Board of 

 Education. The following lectures were delivered.. 



Tuesday evenings. 



January 7 — Greenland W. E. Meehan 



14 — The Yellowstone National Park Miss Mary V. Worstell 



21 — The Indians of the Wild Northwest: Their Haunts; 



Their Sports; Their Homes Egerton R. Young 



28 — The Cliff- and Cave-Dwellers of the Southwest. 



F. S. Dellenbaugh 

 February 4 — The State of New York, and its Remarkable Natural 



Features W. C. Peckham 



11 — Flashes of Light on Yankee Land. A Description of 



Central New England George W. Bicknell 



iS — In the Heart of the Rockies Jacques W. Redway 



25 — The Black Hills and Bad Lands of South Dakota and 



Wyoming E. O. Hovey 



March 4 — Alaska John P. Clum 



11 — The Mississippi Valley and the Southern States. .S. T. Willis 



18 — Seeking Peary and the Pole H. L. Bridgman 



" 25 — Pennsylvania W. E. Meehan 



April 1 — In the Land of the Red Men, as they Were and Are. 



With Glimpses of Prairies, Mountains, Lakes and 



the Glorious Northern Auroras Egerton R. Young 



8— Florida W. E. Meehan 



15 — In the Wake of the Setting Sun John P. Clum 



22 — The Nicaragua Canal W. E. Simmons 



29 — Hawaii John C. Bowker 



October 7 — New Zealand Dr. John C. Bowker 



14 — Contrasts. (A study of the customs of people in many 

 lands compared and contrasted by phrase and 



picture) Dr. John C. Bowker 



21 — Japan Dr. W T m. E. Griffis 



28 — China Dr. Kenneth F. Junor 



November 4 — Manners and Customs of Hindus. (Illustrated by 



costumes) Mrs. Helen M. Jackson 



11 — New Things we have Learned about Africa. . . Cyrus C. Adams 



iS — The Vale of Cashmere A. C. Maclay 



25 — Persia Joel Werda 



December 2 — The Bedouins of the Euphrates , . Mrs. J. H. Haynes 



g — Jerusalem and Her Environs S. W. Naylor 



16 — Cairo G. C. Mars 



Saturday evenings. 

 Tanuary 4 — An Evening in the American Museum of Natural 



History Harlan I. Smith 



11 — The New York Aquarium. (A description of the fine 



fish collection at the Battery) Charles L. Bristol 



" 18 — Bronx Park. (A description of the Park and the New 



York Botanical Gardens.) Miss Mary V. Worstell 



25 — The Zoological Garden. (A description of New York's 



great Zoological Garden at Bronx Park.).. Henry F. Osborn 

 February 1 — The Reign of Fire. The first of a course of four 



lectures on "The Story of the Earth." W. T. Elsing 



8— The Warfare of Water W. T. Elsing 



15 — The Great Ice Age W. T. Elsing 



22 — The Earth and Man W. T. Elsing 



