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etc., which were frequently furnished on request. This num- 

 ber also does not include ten cases of casts of animals for the 

 use of the blind. 



According to statistics furnished by the teachers the 

 regular collections were studied by 1,378,599 pupils. 



Fifty cases of our circulating collections were rented to the 

 Newark Public Schools. 



An exhibit of dolls and toys and photographs of Indian 

 children was placed in the Ethical Culture Society building, 

 November 19-22, as a part of the exhibit of the Work and 

 Play Committee of the Federation for Child Study. 



Under the supervision of C.-E. A. Winslow, Curator of the 



Department of Public Health, two new collections have been 



. added to our series. In addition to the folio 



^ t_i- tt 1^ °f eighteen photographic charts illustrating: 

 Public Health A a . c • «_, 



_ ,, . the spread and prevention of communicable 



Collections , r ■ 



disease, we now have one folio of twelve charts 



illustrating insects as carriers of disease, and one of eight 

 charts illustrating bacteria and their work. There are ten sets 

 of each of these three folios, each accompanied by an explan- 

 atory guide. Not quite all of these have been available for the 

 schools, because of requests for their use from organizations, 

 such as the Fourth International Congress on School Hygiene, 

 held at Buffalo, August 25-30, and the National Conservation 

 Exposition, held at Knoxville, Tennessee, October 1-15, and 

 from various public libraries. 



These public health charts were carefully examined by 

 W. F. Unia Steyn Parve, Medical Inspector of Schools of 

 Deventer, The Netherlands, with a view to adopting them for 

 use in the schools with which he is connected. They, as well 

 as our other circulating collections, were also examined by 

 C. V. Hartman, of the Naturhistoriska Riksmuseum of 

 Stockholm, with a view to using them in museum extension 

 work. Duplicate sets of these charts were sold to the Univer- 

 sity of Texas, and photographs of some of the charts to the 

 North Carolina State Board of Health. 



A party of forty-seven Russian educators examined the cir- 

 culating collections during a visit to the Museum in August. 



