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Private School Association 



Roosevelt Memorial Commission of the State of New York 

 School Nature League 



Second International Congress of Eugenics, Executive Com- 

 mittee 

 Teachers College Club of Ungraded Class Teachers 

 Torrey Botanical Club 

 Western Electric Company 

 Woodcraft League of America 



SPECIAL GIFTS AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 



The gifts received during 1920 are listed on pages 209 

 to 228, but we wish to mention here a number of gifts of 

 special interest and value: From Charles L. Bernheimer, an 

 archaeological collection from near Blanding, Utah; from 

 Sydney and Victor D. Bevin, a crystal sphere mounted in 

 bronze, from Japan; Frederick F. Brewster, 3,378 skins of 

 birds, collected by Mr. Rollo H. Beck in South America and 

 West Indies; Department of Commerce, Bureau of Fisheries, 

 St. Paul Island, Alaska; 13 fur seals, from St. Paul Island and 

 St. George Island, Alaska ; Julian A. Dimock, 3,874 negatives ; 

 Educational Films Corporation of America : 870 feet of posi- 

 tive motion picture films, "The Why of a Volcano"; Dr. 

 George Ellery Hale, 2 photographs of moon taken on Septem- 

 ber 15, 1919, with 100-inch telescope, at Pasadena, California, 

 and 2 photographs of the sun; Mrs. E. H. Harriman, bronze 

 bust of John Muir, by Malvina Hoffman; August Heckscher, 

 archaeological collection and geological specimens, from 

 Egypt; George W. Korper: collection of American and Ori- 

 ental Pearl Shells, containing pearlaceous growths, from the 

 United States, South America and India ; Mrs. Augustus Kirk- 

 ham: Mexican blanket, belonging to a notorious Mexican 

 bandit named Vidauri, previous to 1857 ; Professor A. Lacroix, 

 125 minerals, from Lower California, France, Madagascar, 

 and other localities; F. J. Myers, 234 slides of Rotifers and 

 other invertebrates, collection of mounted and identified ma- 

 rine algae, a vial of Plumatella repens, a Stephenson binocular 



