BUFFALO SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCES II 



for an afternoon session. The attendance at the talks has av- 

 eraged about 125, the number being purposely made small so as 

 to make them as informal as possible and to encourage the chil- 

 dren to ask questions as well as answer them on the topics 

 presented. 



A report of this kind would be quite incomplete were not 

 some acknowledgement made to the officers of the Society by 

 whose persistent and effective efforts our present effective system 

 has been developed. Among these are the late Dr. William C. 

 Barrett, one-time Director of the Museum of our Society; Mr. 

 Frederick Houghton, who was responsible for the travelling ex- 

 hibit scheme, which is now being taken up by the large museums 

 of the country; Dr. Lee H. Smith, for many years the President 

 of the Society, under who-;e administration the lectures were 

 brought to a systematic basis; Dr. Elizabeth J. Letson, the ef- 

 ficient Director of the Museum, on whose shoulders the greater 

 part of the routine in arranging the work has fallen; and Mr. 

 Henry Richmond, Chairman of the Education Committee, who 

 has been largely instrumental in getting recognition and assistance 

 from the City in carrying on the work. It is with particular 

 pleasure that the Society acknowledges here its great obligation 

 to the Hon. T. Guilford Smith, Member of the Board of Regents 

 of the University of the State of New York and President of the 

 Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences since 1903. Although 

 closely connected with nearly every public movement that con- 

 cerns the best interests of our City, Mr. Smith has found time 

 to place our Society on its present high level of efficiency. Be- 

 lieving firmly that in co-operation only can the best results be 

 secured, he has succeeded in associating all the various and dis- 

 connected interests represented in the school work, making them 

 one and uniform, working to a common end, and accomplishing 

 an amount of good which is most remarkable considering the 

 unfortunately limited facilities of the Society at the present time. 



