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stimulated wide interest in this form of graphic instruction. 

 Curator Winslow with Charles Baskerville of the College 

 of the City of New York made during the summer a report 

 upon an investigation of air conditions in the New York 

 schools, conducted for the Committee on School Inquiry of 

 the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, which constitutes 

 perhaps the most elaborate study of school-room air yet un- 

 dertaken. Curator Winslow has also been appointed Chairman 

 of the New York State Commission on Ventilation, an unpaid 

 expert commission appointed by the Governor to direct the 

 expenditure of a sum of $50,000 given for research on this 

 important subject to the Association for Improving the Con- 

 dition of the Poor, by Mrs. Elizabeth Milbank Anderson. 



During the summer the department was able to cooperate 

 with the New York Association for Improving the Condition 

 of the Poor in its study of fly-borne disease and fly-prevention 

 in this city. 



John H. O'Neill, for three years assistant in the depart- 

 ment, resigned in January to become Sanitary Engineer to the 



_^ . _ „ State Department of Health of Louisiana, 



Changes in Staff , ,. , , , , 1 ^ j 



and his place has been taken by David 



Greenberg, S.B., who has had immediate charge of the 

 preparation and installation of exhibition material and has 

 carried the work forward with ability and enthusiasm. 



Israel J. Kligler was appointed Assistant in the Department 

 on April 1, and has the bacterial collections under his imme- 

 diate care. 



WOODS AND FORESTRY 



DEPARTMENT OF WOODS AND FORESTRY 



Mary Cynthia Dickerson, Curator 



The rearrangement of trees in the cases in the Forestry 



Hall has been completed, so that the whole collection is again 



^ . ... . open to the public, also some one hundred and 

 Exhibition /. , . / ' . , . , . 



fifty of the descriptive labels of those remaining 



to be written have been prepared. The work has continued 



on the preparation of the leaf, flower and fruit sprays to 



