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The spring course of lectures to the Children of Members, 

 the eleventh series, included the following : " 'Bruno' — A True 

 Bear Story of the North Woods," by W. Lyman 

 Lectures to Underwood ; "Eskimo 'Kiddies/ " by Donald B. 

 Members° MacMillan; "Our Dog Friends," by Ernest 

 Harold Baynes; and "Strange Creatures of the 

 Sea," by Raymond L. Ditmars. 



The autumn course, the twelfth series, included the follow- 

 ing: "Keen Joy of Days in the Open," by Chauncey J. Haw- 

 kins ; "Big Wild Game Animals at Home in Winter," by Nor- 

 man McClintock ; "Birds in Their Relation to Field, Forest and 

 Garden," by G. Clyde Fisher; and "Eskimo Family Life, 

 Hunting and Travel," by Edmund Otis Hovey. 



In addition to the regular courses of lectures for Members, 



several special lectures have been given during the year which 



Members were invited to attend. 



Special j n j anuar y a series of four lectures by Dr. 



Lectures 



A. L. Kroeber, on "Four Types of Aboriginal 



Culture," were given under the auspices of the Department of 



Anthropology. 



On January 17, three lectures, under the general subject, 

 "Foreign Monuments, Their Erection, Protection, Destruction 

 and Restoration," were given at the Museum in cooperation 

 with The American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society, 

 as follows: "Care of Allied Soldiers' Graves," by Colonel 

 Henry W. Sackett; "Protection and Destruction of Historic 

 Monuments," by Edward Hagaman Hall, and "Ancient Monu- 

 ments of China and Tibet," by Roy Chapman Andrews. 



On February 21, a special lecture for Members and a special 

 exhibition of lantern slides taken in natural colors by the Paget 

 Process by Yvette Borup Andrews on the Museum's Asiatic 

 Zoological Expedition in Japan, Burma and China, were given 

 by Roy Chapman Andrews, leader of the expedition. 



On December 16, under the auspices of The American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History, the New York Academy of Sciences, 

 the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society and 

 the Institute of Arts and Sciences, a lecture was given by 



