The Committee submil the following resolutions: 



Resolved, That the City Superintendent be instructed to issue a circular calling 

 attention to the collections of the American Museum of Natural History, 

 as an educational feature, and the desirability of its being visited on 

 Saturdays and holidays by teachers and pupils; and that he also be 

 requested to select a class of teachers who will volunteer to attend a 

 course of free lectures on Saturdays, to be delivered through the courtesy 

 of the Executive Committee of the American Museum of Natural History- 



Resolved, That a copy of the above report and resolution be transmitted to the 

 Executive Committee of the American Museum of Natural History. 



December 23, 1830. 



A class of Principals and Teachers has been selected 

 to the number of thirty, all that can be accommodated 

 at one time in our present rooms. Professor Bickmore 

 has been requested to deliver the lectures and they 

 are now in progress. The enthusiastic interest of 

 the teachers in this branch of natural science, as 

 proven by their constant attendance in the severest 

 weather, has far exceeded our anticipations, and is a 

 most gratifying indication of the wide and important 

 field of usefulness our institution is destined to occupy 

 as a means of educating the youth of our city. 



In order to render the collections already begun 

 as complete as possible before purchasing speci- 

 mens in other departments, the trustees, after de- 

 fraying all the indebtedness of the institution, con- 

 tributed during the last year the sum of $6,500 for 

 an improvement fund, which has been expended in 

 perfecting the specimens already bought or donated in 

 previous } 7 ears. Man} 7 of the mammals purchased 

 from the estate of the late Prince Maximillian have 

 been partially or wholly remounted, and the specimens 

 in the whole department are now ready to be placed 

 on stands of a uniform pattern. The two cases at the 

 south end of the lower hall have been enlarged to 

 receive the camel, wapiti and moose. The most im- 



