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Curator prepared the Nature Study Section of the handbook 

 of the Girl Scouts, which was published early in the year. 

 This section, which comprises more than eighty pages of the 

 manual, is illustrated largely from photographs of groups and 

 other exhibits in the American Museum. 



Dr. Fisher has been an active member of the committee 

 working to formulate a program of motion pictures on biologi- 

 cal subjects to be used by the High Schools of New York City. 

 This committee was appointed by Dr. Ernest L. Crandall, 

 Director of Lectures and Visual Instruction for the Board of 

 Education of this city. 



During July and August, Dr. Fisher conducted nature study 

 in Camp Wigwam, a large boys' camp located near Harrison, 

 Maine. He also conducted field work in the study of birds at 

 the Annual Camp Directors' Conference in cooperation with 

 the Woodcraft League, in May. 



Besides lecturing before many private schools, clubs and other 

 educational organizations, Dr. Fisher spoke before The New 

 York Association of Biology Teachers, The New England Con- 

 ference of the American Association of Museums, The 

 Women's Auxiliary of the Staten Island Institute of Arts and 

 Sciences, and the New Jersey State Council of Education, on 

 the subject of Visual Education as provided by the American 

 Museum of Natural History, with special reference to the use 

 of motion pictures in teaching biology. 



Miss Crosby represented the Museum at the Annual Meeting 

 of the New York State Federation of Workers for the Blind. 



During the year a number of gifts have been received, formal 

 acknowledgment for which is given in the complete accession 

 list. We desire, however, to express our indebt- 

 Acknowledg- e( j ness to the following individuals and organiza- 

 tions that have extended courtesies which have 

 been of material assistance in carrying on the work of the 

 Department: New York State Conservation Commission, for 

 the loan of motion picture films on forest-fire protection and 

 methods of reforestation ; J. H. Foster, State Forester of New 

 Hampshire, for the use of material for lantern slides on the 

 White Pine blister-rust; New York Historical Society, for 



