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tion and the intention to maintain the same character of the 

 magazine, it has been decided to publish it as a bimonthly, 

 beginning in 1920. 



The Spring Course of Lectures to Members included: 



"African Big Game," by Carl E. Akeley; "The Forests and 



the Wild Life of New York State," by George 



Lectures to rj p ratt ; "Australia," by Herbert E. Gregory; 



Members 



"A Naturalist's Rambles in Florida," by G. Clyde 

 Fisher. 



The Autumn Course was as follows : "The Canadian Alps," 

 by B. M. DeCou; "Our Animal Allies in the Great War," 

 by Ernest Harold Baynes; "Chile and Her Resources," by 

 Frank M. Chapman ; "The Friendly Arctic," by V. Stef ansson. 



The Spring Course of Lectures to the Children of Members 



included: "Wigwam Stories," by Alanson Skinner; "Animal 



Work and Play," by Raymond L. Ditmars ; 



Lectures to "The Story of the Winds," by George H. Sher- 



MemWs ° wood ; "African Jungle Trails," by Carl E. 



Akeley. 



The Autumn course was as follows : "Seaside Stories," by 

 Roy W. Miner; "Nature's Ways of Scattering Seeds," by G. 

 Clyde Fisher; "Animals of the Ice and Snow," by George H. 

 Sherwood ; "The Songs of Birds," by Charles Crawford Gorst. 



The American Museum of Natural History in cooperation 

 with the other agencies of the City working with and for the 

 Blind offered a lecture to the blind and their 

 Special friends, by Sir Arthur Pearson, the blind Founder 



and Director of St. Dunstan's Hostel for Blinded 

 Soldiers, London, England, given in the Auditorium of the 

 Museum on February 5. 



On Roosevelt Day, October 27, in cooperation with the 

 National Association of Audubon Societies at its Annual 

 Meeting, addresses were given in the Auditorium by President 

 Osborn, Carl E. Akeley, Frank M. Chapman, George K. 

 Cherrie, T. Gilbert Pearson, and Ernest Thompson Seton. 



On November 12, a Reception to Members on the occasion 

 of the opening of the Exhibition of Industrial Art in Textiles 



