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completed and lent to the Y. M. C. A. — "Camera Hunting for 

 Whales," by Roy Chapman Andrews, and "Bird Life on an 

 Antarctic Island," by Robert Cushman Murphy. Two others, 

 "Through the Brazilian Wilderness with Colonel Roosevelt," 

 by George K. Cherrie, and "Some of My Mascots," by Ernest 

 Harold Baynes, are nearly completed, and two by Carl E. 

 Akeley on "African Big Game" are in course of preparation. 



The third plan of cooperation with the Y. M. C. A. is to lend 

 two-reel sets of the best motion pictures in the Museum under 

 the title of "American Museum Exploration Series." These 

 will include selected portions of the motion pictures taken in 

 China and Japan by Roy Chapman Andrews on the Asiatic 

 Zoological Expedition of the Museum, and the films secured by 

 the Crocker Land Expedition in the Arctic. 



At the request of Mrs. Henry R. Hoyt, of the Ladies' Social 

 Welfare Committee of the Y. M. C. A., guides have been fur- 

 nished for groups of sailors on shore leave from the. United 

 States naval vessels in the waters near New York. Such groups 

 visit the Museum on Saturday afternoons and are conducted 

 through the exhibition halls. The Museum is indebted to Miss 

 Annie Lucas who has generously given her services as docent 

 on the occasions of these visits. 



A more detailed account of the regular activities of the de- 

 partment is given below : 



Circulating collections of natural history specimens have 



been lent to the public schools of Greater New York, as has 



been done since 1904. These collections include 



Circulating practically everything called for in the course of 



Collections r J « 



nature study, and there are thousands of boys and 

 girls in the schools of New York City who would have no other 

 opportunity to see and to handle such natural history objects. 

 More pupils are reached through, this branch of the work of 

 the department than through any other. 



All specimens in the circulating collections, except those of 

 insects, have been prepared so that they can be removed from 

 the cases and actually handled by the pupils. That the privilege 



