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specimens from the Dominican Republic, presented by Mr. 

 B. Preston Clark; set of 9 volumes of Lord Kingsborough's 

 work, "Antiquities of Mexico," presented by Mr. Ogden 

 Mills; Lacroix collection of geological specimens, presented 

 by Mr. J. P. Morgan; ethnological specimens and photographs 

 from the Pacific Islands, presented by Mrs. William Churchill. 



Again we are indebted to Mr. C. C. Burnham, Vice-Presi- 

 dent of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Com- 



_ . pany; to Mr. W. P. Kenney, Vice-President of 



Transportation , ' ^ T , ^ ., „ 



the Great Northern Railway Company, and 



to Mr. F. D. Underwood, President of the Erie Railroad Com- 

 pany, for transportation of the valuable collections of fossils 

 from Alberta. The Museum also desires to make acknowledg- 

 ment to Mr. T. H. Rossbottom of the Panama Rail Road Com- 

 pany, who has on several occasions granted reduced rates of 

 transportation in connection with our explorations in South 

 America, and to the Ferro-carril de Samana y Santiago for 

 free transportation and other assistance given to our repre- 

 sentatives on our expedition to Santo Domingo. 



PUBLIC EDUCATION 



Each year the Museum increasingly develops its public 

 educational work, always with the object of extending the 

 results of its explorations and researches as widely as possible. 



The importance of establishing local lecture centers for 

 the benefit of pupils who cannot afford car fare to visit the 

 j , j Museum was so evident that, although the City 



Centers ^ ic * not provide the necessary funds for the 



opening of the ten centers suggested in the propo- 

 sition submitted to the Board of Education by the President 

 in 1914, the Trustees authorized the Curator of Public Educa- 

 tion to open certain of these centers without additional expense 

 to the City. Courses of lectures have been given in the 

 Washington Irving High School, in Public School No. 64, Man- 

 hattan (on the lower East Side), and at two schools in the 

 Bronx. During the year these lectures Were attended by more 

 than 32,800 pupils, the majority of whom could not afford the 

 car fare necessary to transport them to the Museum. The 



