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The autumn course was as follows: . , 



Attendance 



November 17 Holidays with the Birds by Clinton G. Abbott 1135 



November 24 The Children of The Far East by Roy C. Andrews 1176 



December 1 The Kingdom of The Tides by Roy Waldo Miner 950 



December 8 Our Waterways and Their Protection by George 881 

 H. Sherwood 



Total attendance at these lectures 8557 



The following course for Members was given during the spring 

 of 1917: 



March 8 In the Jungles of British Guiana by C. William 635 



Beebe 

 March 15 In the High Sierras by Leroy Jeffers 515 



March 22 Our Debt to Ancient American Civilizations by 353 



Herbert J. Spinden 

 March 29 With Camera and Gun Through Western Colom- 456 



bia by Leo E. Miller 



The autumn course consisted of the following: 



November 1 The Search for Crocker Land by Donald B. Mac- 942 



Millan 

 November 8 The Romance of the Beaver and the Caribou by 739 



A. Radclyffe Dugmore 

 November 15 The Southern Andes by Frank M. Chapman 564 



November 22 The Frontiers of a Forbidden Land by Roy C. 



Andrews . 712 



Total attendance at these lectures 4916 



On February 8, the first exhibition of Prizma motion pictures 



in natural colors was held in the auditorium of the 



prizma Museum for the members of the Museum and the New 



pictures York Academy of Sciences. So many persons were 



attracted to this exhibition that the pictures were 



shown twice the same evening, the hall being filled each time. 



In cooperation with The American Museum of Natural History, 



the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society met on 



January 10, in the Museum. A lecture on 



and historic NIC " 0ur National Parks and Monuments" 



preservation society was . g iven b y the Honorable Robert 



Sterling Yard. 



Another meeting was held on March 28, which was addressed 



by Samuel Christopher Lancaster, subject "The Scenic Beauty of 



Oregon." 



