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administrative duties of the department have fallen upon the 



Assistant Curator, Dr. G. Clyde Fisher, who has been assisted 



by Miss Helen M. Vreeland. The relations with the 



Staff 



Public Libraries and the work for the blind have been 

 under the direction of Miss Ann E. Thomas, assisted by Dr. 

 Fisher and Miss Clara A. Kelsey. All the members of the de- 

 partment have been called upon for docent service. 



During the year 1916, the Department of Public Education 

 has profited by the helpful cooperation of a number of firms 

 and individuals, as indicated below: Mr. 

 c now e gmen s ]? rnest Harold Baynes, Brown Brothers, 

 C. Beseler Co. and Mr. E. W. Deming, by the loan of nega- 

 tives for making lantern slides ; the Canadian Pacific Railway, 

 the Eastern Steamship Corporation, the International Har- 

 vester Co., Brown Brothers, the Milwaukee Museum, the New 

 York Tenement House Commission and the New York De- 

 partment of Street Cleaning, by the loan of photographs for 

 the purpose of making lantern slides; Mr. Lee Keedick, Mr. 

 John Burroughs, the Canadian Pacific Railway, and The New 

 York State Conservation Commission, by the loan of motion 

 picture films for use in lectures to children; Mr. William de 

 la M. Cary, by permission to photograph paintings for the pur- 

 pose of making lantern slides; the Bureau of Municipal Re- 

 search, by furnishing books containing information for the 

 preparation of lectures; the Commissioner of Accounts, by 

 furnishing charts for the purpose of making lantern slides; 

 the Glens Falls Insurance Co., by the loan of lithographs for 

 the purpose of making lantern slides; the New York Public 

 Library, by the loan of books on Japan for use in the National 

 Education Association Exhibit. 



GEOLOGY AND EXTINCT INVERTEBRATES 

 Department of Geology and Invertebrate Palaeontology 



Edmund Otis Hovey, Curator 



Curator Edmund Otis Hovey, who in 191 5 was placed in 

 charge of the relief ship sent to North Greenland to bring back 



