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It was with regret that the department lost the services of 

 Miss Kathryn I. Upson, Lantern Slide Librarian, who resigned 

 in October. The position has been filled by 

 Miss Virginia McGivney, a graduate of Bar- 

 nard College who, through experience as a teacher in the New 

 York City Schools, is fitted to assist in making the most effec- 

 tive use of the slides. 



During the year 19 17, the department has had the coopera- 

 tion of the following firms and individuals: Mr. Alfred W. 

 Abrams, of the Division of Visual Instruc- 

 c now e gmen s ^ lon> Department of Education, Albany, in 

 lending lantern slides for use in lectures to school children; 

 The New York Historical Society in permitting the use of 

 books and in permission to photograph cuts, plates, etc., for 

 lantern slides ; The Exhibitors' Booking Agency in lending the 

 motion picture films entitled "How Life Begins" for a special 

 lecture to teachers; Mr. E. R. Sanborn of the New York 

 Zoological Society in lending motion picture films of animals 

 for use in a lecture to children of Members ; Brown Brothers, 

 Sarony, Inc., Janet M. Cummings and Collier's Weekly in 

 lending photographs from which to make lantern slides. 



GEOLOGY, GEOGRAPHY AND PAST LIFE 

 ON THE EARTH * 



Edmund Otis Hovey, Curator 



The Curator returned to the Museum on August 2J after an 

 enforced absence of more than two years in the Arctic, whither 



he was sent in July, 191 5, in charge of the first relief 

 Work in s yp despatched to Etah to bring home the Crocker 



Land Expedition staff, property and collections. 

 During the winter of 1915-1916, he prepared his report on the 

 Heilprin Fund expedition to Martinique and St. Vincent as far 

 as was possible without access toamportant publications needed 

 for reference. As much time as practicable was occupied in 



* Under the Department of Geology and Invertebrate Palaeontology (see also 

 page 186). 



