FREE 

 NATURE EDUCATION 



BY 



THE AMERICAN MUSEUM 

 OF NATURAL HISTORY 



IN 



PUBLIC SCHOOLS 

 AND COLLEGES 



HISTORY AND STATUS OF MUSEUM INSTRUCTION 



AND ITS EXTENSION TO THE SCHOOLS OF 



GREATER NEW YORK AND VICINITY 



BY 



GEORGE H. SHERWOOD 

 Curator, Department of Public Education 



With Foreword by 



HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORN 



President of the Museum 



Miscellaneous Publications of 

 The American Museum of Natural History, No. 13 



CITY OF NEW YORK 



1920 



