clothing, implements and toys arouse such interest that several 

 of the children have written letters to the Museum during the 

 school year to express their pleasure in the collections. The 

 material is selected, outside of its interest value, with regard to 

 form, use and durability under use, although the care exercised 

 by the teachers is effective in keeping the objects intact. Sugges- 

 tions for related reading often accompany the loans. 



For the blind children, the visits to the Museum are recog- 

 nized as part of their school work and are made during school 

 hours. There are more than one hundred blind children in 

 the elementary schools, too many to deal with satisfactorily at 

 one time. One half of the classes came to the Museum on the 

 second Tuesday and the other half on the fourth Tuesday of 

 the month during October, November and December, 1913, 

 and February and March, 1914. The same lecture was repeated, 

 and was also given to classes from Newark. 



In addition to natural history specimens and ethnographi- 

 cal material lent to the schools, we have prepared several small 

 models of large mammals. 



The visit to the Museum means more than an hour's in- 

 struction, more than the mere viewing of new objects; it means 

 a change of environment, a stimulation of intellectual expres- 

 sion, the appreciation of the socializing forces which go to pro- 

 duce public institutions for the distribution of knowledge and 

 the betterment of life. 



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