CONTENTS 



Committees on Educational Extension Work 



The Museum's Relations to the Public Educational System 1 



History of the Relations of the American Museum 



of Natural History to the Public Schools 3 



First Period: 1869-1903 3 



Lectures for Teachers 3 



Teaching Collections 5 



Second Period: 1904-1914 7 



Circulating Nature Study Collections 7 



Growth of the Circulating 



Nature Study Collections 9 



Lectures for Pupils 10 



Special Guide Service 11 



Provision for the Blind 12 



Status of Museum Extension in 1914 15 



Circulation of Nature Study Collections 15 



Lectures 15 



Education for the Blind 16 



Visiting Classes 17 



Expert Guidance 17 



Special Instruction 17 



Comments of Eminent Educators 19 



Proposed Extension of Educational 



Work in 1914 and 1915 21 



Letter of Curator to President 21 



Details of Plans 24 



Appendix I. List of the Circulating 



Nature Study Collections 27 

 II. List of Schools Receiving 



Museum Extension 1913-1914 31 



III. List of Lectures for 



School Children, Spring of 1914 35 



IV. List of Schools Visiting the 



Museum for Lectures and 



Special Instruction, 1913-1914 41 



