10 TRANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
America is doing, we find a very different state of things. 
Although probably later in the field, and commencing on very 
similar lines with the formation of loan collections, the work 
has now grown to considerable dimensions. From small 
beginnings this work has progressed until at the present time, 
in New York and district, nearly four hundred schools, some 
of which are twenty-five miles from the Museum, are receiving 
the collections regularly. 
The American Museum possesses more than thirty-five 
thousand lantern slides, of which about twelve thousand are 
coloured. The field parties which the Museum is sending to 
remote parts of the earth bring back photographic material, 
which enables continual additions to be made to this 
series of slides. The views illustrate plant life, animal life, 
industries, customs of people and physical geography. 
The broad scope of the educational work of the Museum 
is indicated in the action of the trustees in recently authorizing 
the equipment of a room especially reserved for the use of the 
blind. As yet only a small beginning has been made, but 
specimens of animals and Indian implements have already 
been set aside and labelled in raised type. The development 
of this feature of the Museum’s activity has been amply pro- 
vided for by financial bequests. It is safe to say that no visitors 
to the Museum obtain a greater enjoyment from the collections 
than do the various groups of blind people, who may often 
be seen in the exhibition halls. 
In an address before the Fourth International Congress 
of School Hygiene at Buffalo, August, 1913, C. EH. A. Winslow, 
Curator of the Public Health Department of the American 
Museum, gave an account of the preparations made in the 
Museum for co-operation in the teaching of school hygiene and 
sanitation. He claimed the American Museum as the first 
institution of its kind to grasp the opportunity of attacking 
the educational problem of public health by the use of Museum 
