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actual contact with the very things of which the books and statements give 

 only imperfect pictures, is in possession of advantages which it would be 

 inexcusable to neglect. 



Teachers and Pupils should, therefore, on Saturdays and holidays, de- 

 vote some portion of their time to the Museum and its collections. 



Good instruction makes discipline easy. A visit by the meritorious 

 pupils of the class, in company with the teacher, as a reward for satisfac- 

 tory service during the week or month, would not only increase the pupil's 

 knowledge, but also constitute an effective agency in securiag order, 

 interest and attention in the class room, and would thus make the teacher's 

 labor less arduous and exhausting. 



The Museum of Natural History is in Seventy-eighth street, between 

 Eighth and Ninth avenues. It opens every day, except Sunday, at nine 

 o'clock a.m., and closes half an hour before sunset. 



Very respectfully, 



JOHN JASPER, 



City Superintendent. 



The institution has now become of such importance 

 in promoting public education that it should at once be 

 placed on a permanent basis. The sum received from 

 the city this year, after providing for the necessary 

 work on the building, has been but little more than 

 half of the amount required for merely maintaining the 

 collections already acquired. This large deficiency as 

 well as all sums for the purchase of new specimens has 

 been given by the Trustees and a few of our citizens. 

 To enable the Museum to continue its present impor- 

 tant work and to extend its labors into new fields of 

 usefulness, there is now needed an Endowment 

 Fund, of which the interest only would be expended. 

 The usefulness of the Institution is now so fully estab- 

 lished and so generally recognized that we confident- 

 ly appeal for assistance in making up this Fund to 

 all the public-spirited citizens of our metropolis. 



