Museum of Natural History 



To the Members of the City Library Association: — 



Through its lectures of the past year the museum has reached more 

 people than ever before in its history; the total number of persons 

 attending being approximately seven thousand one hundred and 

 eighty-seven. 



Classes from the Schools 



One thousand three hundred and ten pupils in classes have come to 

 the museum with their teachers; and of these, nine hundred and four- 

 teen have come for assigned work and received classroom instruction. 

 Specimens from the museum collections have been supplied for these 

 exercises, and have illustrated the practical talks on such subjects as 

 general and relative anatomy, physical geography, volcanoes, coal, 

 building stones, birds, and small mammals, Indian customs and imple- 

 ments, and community civics. The museum has supplied for teachers 

 an eight-page handbook summarizing the museum contents, with brief 

 suggestions of ways to use the collections. The increased and more 

 definite use of the museum has been a direct result of this pamphlet. 

 For permanent use in the grades, good general collections have been 

 supplied from duplicates. These sets may be borrowed by schools or 

 other organizations for any reasonable length of time. 



Field Excursions 



Trips to nearby mines and quarries have supplemented the miner- 

 alogy class exercises, and lessons in the field have been a frequent 

 feature of the Bird Club's work. For these various meetings and for 

 the convenience of visiting societies or individuals the museum always 

 gladly opens its doors morning or evening as well as during the regular 

 hours. 



The total attendance at the museum, at lectures provided by the 

 museum, and at those of more or less affiliated societies to which hos- 

 pitaUty is extended, makes an average of ninety-three persons served 

 daily by the institution, or a total yearly attendance of thirty-three 

 thousand nine hundred and forty-five. 



Gifts 



Another indication of public interest is expressed through gifts that 

 have come in steadily. The number of donors is nearly double that of 

 last year. From Mr. Luman Andrews the museum is still receiving 

 generous contributions to an already rare herbarium. From Robert 

 O. Morris and others many specimens have been added to one of the 

 best collections of birds in the state. The beginning of a unique col- 

 lection of photomicrographs of animal and plant forms has just been 



