work in the Museum and its relation to the schools. The 
particular theme of this year’s program was the relation of the 
Museum's explorations to the work of teachers, this being 
concretely illustrated by Mr. Stefansson’s discoveries in the 
North. There were about 700 teachers present and many 
expressed themselves as having spent a profitable and enjoy- 
able afternoon at the Museum. 
On May 17, the Curator represented the Museum at a 
meeting of the Committee on School Inquiry of the Board of 
Estimate and Apportionment, of which John Purroy Mitchel, 
President of the Board of Aldermen, is Chairman. The 
purpose of the meeting was to discuss the codrdination of the 
various agencies in the City which were prepared to codperate 
with the public educational system. The Curator outlined 
briefly the relation of the Museum to the schools. 
The department was represented at the meetings of the 
British Museums Association, held in Dublin in July, by 
Director Lucas, who presented a paper on the educational 
work of the Museum. 
The educational methods of the Museum continue to 
receive attention from educators at home and abroad. In 
April the Imperial German Commission visited the Museum 
for the express purpose of studying our methods, and more 
recently Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, Superintendent of Schools of 
Chicago, and a Committee from the Chicago Board of Educa- 
tion made a critical examination of the work of the depart- 
ment with a view to introducing similar methods in the 
Chicago schools. 
MuseuM EXTENSION TO THE SCHOOLS AND LiBRARIES,—It 
is probable that no branch of the department’s work is more 
practical or exerts a wider influence than the circulating 
collections. Through them, nature study material is placed 
in the hands of the teachers in the class rooms, and many 
thousands of pupils come in direct contact with it. The 
collections contain material referred to in the syllabus of 
nature study, and were originally prepared with such care that 
very little modification has been required. To the thirteen 
sets previously in use have been added the Public Health Folio 
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