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merely that work which is apparent to every one, but the part 

 which is not visible and which has aptly been compared to the 

 submerged seven-eighths of an iceberg, far larger than appears 

 on the surface. 



Acknowledgment should also be made of the work of the 

 Registrar's department which has not only kept record of 

 the 4,343 incoming and outgoing shipments, but has also had 

 charge of the preparation and dissemination of information 

 regarding the Museum and its work. 



II. REPORTS OF THE DEPARTMENTS 



PUBLIC EDUCATION 



DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC EDUCATION 



George H. Sherwood, Curator 



The Department of Public Education has continued to 



maintain close relations with the schools through its circulat- 



„ . ing collections, its docent service and its 

 Museum Extension , „ -. . . , , 



to the Schools lectures. This year its usefulness has been 



further extended by the development of two 



new lines of cooperation, namely, the loaning of lantern slides 



and the opening of local lecture centers. By means of these 



activities, the Museum has been carried to thousands of pupils 



in a manner to stimulate a lasting interest in nature and in 



this institution as a useful and valuable means of education. 



Through special financial arrangement with the New York 

 City Board of Education, it has been possible to place the 

 f Museum's extensive series of lantern slides at 



Lantern Slides t ^ ie disposal of teachers for use in the class 

 rooms. The nucleus of this collection is the 

 superb series of slides prepared by the late Professor Albert 

 S. Bickmore for the State Department of Public Instruction. 

 The original negatives and slides were destroyed in the disas- 

 trous fire in the Capitol at Albany in 1911, and the personal 



