30 ANNUAL MEETING 



indebted to Mr. James Savage for lending his splendid neg- 

 atives of bird homes. 



During the year several delegations of British school 

 teachers visiting this country to inspect American methods of 

 teaching, have been received at our rooms where they have 

 inspected our collections, listened to lectures and have been 

 greatly interested in our own methods of conducting educational 

 work. 



DIRECTOR OF THE MUSEUM. 



The Director of the Museum, Miss Elizabeth J. Letson, 

 reported the numerous donations to the Museum which have 

 been made by generous friends during the year, including the 

 valuable Meteorite from Canon Diablo, Arizona, presented by 

 Mr. Andrew Langdon, and the portrait of the late Prof. Henry 

 A. Ward, given by his son. 



As in past years the teachers of our public schools have 

 made continuous use of our various collections and the loan or 

 travelling collections furnished to all of the public schools have 

 included specimens from nearly every department of our Mu- 

 seum. There is a constant demand for material for special 

 nature work from the schools and from private teachers. Some 

 of our collections, as for example, our birds, show the effect of 

 this constant usage and may, ere long, require to be replaced. 



The collection of birds' eggs has been catalogued during 

 the year by the card system as used in libraries, there being 

 also an accession register. The work of labelling and cat- 

 aloguing the Conchological Collection is now in hand, the cata- 

 logue being about half finished. 



Our inventory shows that the Museum contains 63,052 

 specimens in all its departments of which but 7,512 thus far 

 have been entered in our new card system catalogue. It seems 

 important that this catalogue work should be pushed forward as 

 rapidly as our means will permit. 



The Director of the Museum represented the Society in 

 June 1906 at the Ithaca Meeting of the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science and again at the December 

 Meeting in New York City. At this time all of the Depart- 

 ments of Natural History and Ethnology united in an exhibition 

 given at the New York Museum of Natural History for the 



