42 Report of the President 



Medical College and the Morris, DeWitt Clinton and Evander 

 Childs High Schools. 



The use of the Indian and Peruvian collections by students 

 of textile design has been noted at length in the reports of the 

 Department of Anthropology, and Mr. Crawford is to be 

 congratulated on the far-reaching results of his interest and 

 enthusiasm. Aside from these special classes it is estimated 

 that the monthly attendance of pupils under direct supervision 

 of teachers is about 350, and there are besides ten university 

 students in anthropology. 



The minerals are used by classes and by collectors for the 

 identification of specimens; the mammals are extensively 

 copied by classes in drawing and the butterflies by pupils in 

 water color : while the birds, both skigle specimens and groups, 

 are in demand for purposes of illustration and the preparation 

 of educational lantern slides. 



There have been and occasionally are still queries as to 

 whether a museum serves any useful purpose: if getting an 

 education or making a living is a useful purpose, it would seem 

 that these queries are answered in the affirmative. 



The demand for "popular" publications continues good, the 



General Guide as usual leading, with a sale of 3,392 copies. The 



profitable issue of the Guide is hampered by the 



Popular f ac j- that, owing- to additions to and changes in 



Publications . „ . f . ........ 



the collections, it is not possible, in justice to visi- 

 tors, to print an edition of more than 5,000 copies. For example, 

 during 1917 in all probability there will be placed on exhibition 

 the Apache, Virginia Deer, Florida Reptiles, Red African 

 Monkey and Nahant Tide Pool Groups, to say nothing of note- 

 worthy single objects, all of which call for notice in a Guide. 



In addition to the Guide, there were sold 2,516 Leaflets, 1,142 

 Handbooks, and 1,155 reprints of articles from the Journal, 

 the total sales of all publications for the last five years being 

 38,418. Post-cards are still in demand, and 853 sets of fifteen 

 and 12,214 sets of three were sold in 1916, a total of 49,437 

 cards, or more than in any previous year. 



It is rather interesting that such leaflets as "A First Chapter 

 in Natural History," "The Geology and Fauna of the Hudson 



