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CITY LIBRARY ASSOCIATION. 



and displayed serve its best purposes. It may therefore be well to 

 consider for a moment how the museum serves as interpreter. 



Classes. 



Steady development and expansion of the co-operative work with the 

 schools is a feature of the past year's records. Thirty-nine classes 

 assembled with their teachers at the museum and nearly one thousand 

 pupils received instruction in geology, physical geography, physi- 

 ology, ornithology, and botany. For these teaching exercises, which 

 occasionally occupy the full session for the day, sets of specimens are 

 carefully selected for illustrative purposes. Besides this, pupils are 

 regularly sent by their teachers to do definite work. With this directed 

 use of the collections there are by no means infrequent voluntary visits 

 made by great numbers of children, who study the exhibits with an 

 interest and intelligence which speak well for the training received. 



Psychological Laboratory. 



The museum is continuing to co-operate with the schools in the work 

 of Dr. George E. Dawson by supplying rooms and other facilities for the 

 psychological laboratory. 



Lectures. 



Incidental to such work two lectures were given during the year by 

 Dr. Dawson under the auspices of the museum. The subject was 

 "The Application of Psychology to Vocational Guidance of Children 

 and Youth." 



Single lectures on various subjects and a course on local geology 

 followed by field work have been received with appreciation. The 

 geology course, given by Miss Fannie A, Stebbins, consisted of eight 

 well attended lectures. For these, specimens from the museum collec- 

 tions were used for illustrative purposes and displa3'ed for reference 

 after lessons were given. A set of lantern slides made for this series 

 forms a loan collection which has been in constant use in the schools 

 where the geology of the Connecticut Valley has been taught much as 

 it was presented at the lectures in the museum's course. The season 

 closed with a choice lecture on ''The Dawn of Art" by Dr. George Grant 

 MacCurdy, curator of archaeology at Yale University. 



Affiliated Societies. 



Aside from lectures directly arranged for b}^ the museum there have 

 been given in its class rooms, thi-ough the activity of societies, two or 



