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CITY LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 



smaller audiences are still given at the Museum and at the City Library 

 hall. Altogether, seventy-seven meetings relating to Museum work 

 have been held, with an attendance of 3,568 persons. 



Department of Psychology 



The work in the Department of Psychology has continued to expand 

 during the past year, affecting an increasingly wide circle of community 

 interests. Aside from the regular examination of school children, which 

 has included some 400 cases, the following institutions and organizations 

 have availed themselves of the facilities of the Laboratory: — The 

 Cathedral School, the House of the Good Shepherd, the Union Relief 

 Association, The Good Will Home, the Hampden County Training 

 School, the Police courts of Springfield and Holyoke, the State Board 

 of Charities and Correction, and the social service departments of several 

 churches. In addition to such work of a more or less clinical nature, 

 the parents of Springfield and vicinity in steadily increasing numbers 

 are referring their children for examination regarding their further 

 education or their occupational careers. 



Plans are also under way for the collection and exhibition in the 

 Museum of material illustrating the ethnological and social background 

 of the psychological problems dealt with — such as the evolution of 

 children's play-life and education; the evolution of home-life, religion, 

 dress, ceremonies, etc.; and the more distinctive types physical and 

 psychological, of racial development. 



Gifts 



A collection of wall maps much needed for class work and for general 

 reference has been given by Mr. Robert O. Morris. The set of eight are 

 neatly encased in metal containers from which they may be withdrawn 

 for display, and the whole outfit or any part of it can easily be moved 

 for use in different departments. The set consists of a large geologic 

 map of North America; a political map of the United States; a set of 

 fifteen topographic sheets with Springfield for a center. In another 

 container are two maps showing the principal drainage basin and gag- 

 ing stations of Massachusetts and Rhode Island, and a preliminary 

 geologic map of the same states. Then there are the frequently referred 

 to maps of the Holyoke Folio and of Emerson's Geology of Old Hamp- 

 shire County, Mass., and a soil survey map which completes the set. 



Mr. Jacob T. Bowne's archaeological collection, that is recognized as 

 a choice one by museums and students of Indian life, has been given 

 to the Museum by Mr. Bowne and will become a part of its exhibits. 

 The gift is an important one containing rare pieces from many localities. 

 Data have been carefully kept and specimens selected with discrimina- 

 tion by a master of the subject. Mr. Bowne's gift is an event in the his- 

 tory of the Museum, making its archaeological department one of the 

 finest of the state. 



To this same department the Fred T. Ley Company has given an 

 Indian skeleton which was found at the junction of the Connecticut 



