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explanatory of the museum material, each book probably having 

 served several teachers during its two weeks' issue period. 



EXTRACT FROM EDUCATIONAL MUSEUM REPORT 



For Year 1909-1910 

 Nature of Material Collections Ordered 



Food products 3.507 



Clothing and shelter 3,128 



Other commercial products 667 



Sea life 1,397 



Insect life 946 



Mounted birds 2,225 



Other mounted animals 674 



Plant life 1,493 



Minerals 1,339 



Stereoscopic views 5,933 



Charts 1,480 



Lantern slide lessons ■ 1,492 



Physical apparatus 1,602 



Miscellaneous material 240 



Total number of collections ordered 26,123 



LIBRARY REPORT 



Nature of Books Number Ordered 



Reference books 2,015 



Pedagogical books 719 



School reading — ethical stories 580 



Philosophical books ■ 230 



Books renewed 821 



Total book issue 4,365 



During the year 1909- 1910 one school availed itself of the 

 convenience of wagon delivery of books to the extent of two 

 hundred two individual volumes, many of which served several 

 teachers during the two weeks they remained on hand. Another 

 school used 1,689 museum collections, most of which served their 

 purpose in several class rooms before being returned to the 

 museum. 



That the Educational Museum has been, and is still, steadily 

 growing in the scope and value of its- work, is evidenced by an- 

 other interesting extract from the museum statistics. 



