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Department of Education, New York City (free public 

 lectures, January). 



Galton Society for the Study of the Origin and Evolution of 

 Man. 



Horticultural Society of New York. 



Keramic Society of Greater New York. 



Linnaean Society of New York. 



National Association of Audubon Societies. 



National Research Council (Division of Anthropology and 

 Psychology and Executive Committee on Pacific Explo- 

 ration). 



New York Academy of Sciences. 



New York Bird and Tree Club. 



New York Entomological Society. 



New York Microscopical Society. 



New York Mineralogical Club. 



School Nature League. 



Torrey Botanical Club. 



United States Bureau of Education. 



United States Public Health Service. 



Y. M. C. A., National Board. 



SPECIAL GIFTS AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 



On pages 201 to 220, acknowledgment is made of the 

 many gifts received by the Museum during the year 1919, but 

 we wish here to make special mention of the specimens re- 

 ceived from the New York Zoological Society and the De- 

 partment of Parks. Of particular importance also are : The 

 gift by Mr. Edward D. Adams of a framed oil painting by 

 Mr. Howard Russell Butler, showing the corona and prom- 

 inences of the sun at period of total eclipse of the sun on 

 June 8, 1918, at Baker, Oregon; a gift of pottery and basketry 

 from North America and Africa from Miss Mary Appleton ; a 

 series of specimens illustrating coal and its derived products, 

 arranged genetically, from the Barrett Company; seven skins 

 of wolverene, one of white timber wolf, and one of Alaska 



